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Worrying about what kind of mortgage you want to take is difficult enough

, without also deciding on which interest rate index is going to be the deciding factor on what your interest rates on your Adjustable Rate home loan will be!

When we speak of the ""index"", we are speaking of the base financial instrument that the changing rates will be based on. These indices may be such instruments as the T-Bill rate, the rate of Federal Funds, or rates based on LIBOR.

You must initially understand that an ARM is a loan with an interest rate that moves up or down within a certain set period, and the movements are predicated upon the movements of the underlying index. If your index is CDs, and CDs go up, your interest rate goes up. Adjustable rate mortgages have adjustment caps, which says that the interest rate can only be adjusted at given periods, even if the underlying interest rate goes up more often; this can be an advantage if you just readjusted and then rates move up. By the same token, if your adjustment is scheduled to take place immediately after the CD rate increased, you will have that rate for a while, even if the CD rate is lowered in the interim.

ARMs can be tied to a lot of underlying instruments, for example the 90 day U.S. Treasury Bill. The Fed Funds rate is the most popular index for ARMs. Another popular index used by a lot of lenders is the LIBOR, or the London Interbank Offered Rate, which highly rated international companies pay to borrow.

How you decide upon the right index is dependent upon your particular circumstances and how you believe interest rates will change. If you prefer a rate that is responsive to the interest rate market, you would choose the CD rate as your index. Rates on Treasury instruments such as the Treasury Bill change more slowly than CDs, and so will react more slowly to interest rate changes. One of the fastest indices to change is the LIBOR, so if you want your interest rate to move often, because you think rates are falling, this is a good choice.

As we said, new products are introduced each day, and one of the newest it the option ARM, which allows the borrower to pick how much he wants to pay on his mortgage each month. The mechanism behind these loans is that they are basically interest only loans, so you have to pay that minimum, and then you can choose to pay more. One of the big issues with an option mortgage is that you can end up with an increasing instead of decreasing mortgage; this is also called as negative amortization.

This is a lot of information for the home buyer to digest, and the best solution is to talk to a professional mortgage broker who can explain it all and recommend the best solution for you.

by: Lashandra D. Gonzalez

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