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There are two main types of mortgage loans; fixed and adjustable. You may be surprised just how easy it is to pick out which type of mortgage loan is right for you since it all boils down to which interest rate will be the lowest overall (during the entire duration of the term). A fixed mortgage loan and an adjustable mortgage loan both have to do with the interest rates. So, which one is right for you?
A fixed interest rate will never change. You will have the same interest rate all throughout the term of your loan. Therefore, if you can start out with a low interest rate, you may want to consider getting a fixed interest rate, that way you will never run the risk of paying a high interest rate, ever.
An adjustable interest rate, however, can change constantly. It doesn't even necessarily change the same way the current housing market's interest rate changes. Whatever interest rate you may end up paying in the future is an unknown risk that can't even be predicted. Many mortgage loans, however, will put a cap on an adjustable interest rate so once it hits a certain interest rate, the rate will never go higher than that. Many mortgage loans also have the adjustable interest rate as being fixed for the first few years or so of the term of the loan.
Since you can generally get a lower interest rate if you start off with an adjustable rate rather than a fixed rate, if you can get a fixed adjustable rate for several years with a cap that is not high, perhaps getting an adjustable rate would be worth looking into. Otherwise, it is safer to go with the fixed interest rate for saving money on interest, assuming you can get a low interest rate to begin with. However, with both fixed and adjustable interest rates, you can refinance whenever you want.
