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Bluntly! When a bank
lends you money to purchase your home
you enter an agreement to repay the amount
borrowed plus interest over a period of
time. Normally 30 years. If payments are
made on time the bank will leave you alone.
When repayments are missed and you fall
into arrears the bank will want their
money or they will foreclose, (take your
home). So how much should you spend on
a home? An amount you can afford without
hardship. Not to say there will be a little
belt tightening for a while; but as your
wages rise and a repayment habit is formed
it gets easier. Banks will loan what seems
to be an enormous amount of money, so
consider what should you borrow not what
you can borrow. |