• Saeveo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Are you not required to have a joint life assurance policy as a condition of a mortgage in the US?

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      1 year ago

      lol no, the bank doesn’t care, they’ll just take your house if you can’t pay

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        You literally beat me to this reply by like 4 minutes haha. Banks were giving variable mortgages to people who could barely afford current rates, they don’t give a shit.

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          I would never ever take an adjustable rate mortgage. That is just begging to get fucked. Like right now for example. My mortgage is like 4.2% but if it were an adjustable id be at like 6+% and be out of a house.

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            Or when the housing market is booming, they’ll repossess the house and sell it again for even more of a profit.

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              Probably make as much use of the scam mortgage insurance that they can too. I forget what it’s actually called but it’s a scam IMO. $100 a month baked into my escrow for insurance to the lender in case I lost the house. To my knowledge it provides me no benefit.

              Upside is when I refinanced it was taken off. (Think the whole first time home owner program requires it for the initial loan.)

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      Not anywhere that I’ve seen, just home owners insurance and mortgage insurance if you pay less than 20% down.

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      Nope, at least not for my mortgage. The only thing that was required was a home owners insurance policy.

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      I bought last year and there was nothing in the process that wanted either of us to have life insurance.