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Adjustable rate mortgages can provide attractive interest rates, but your payment is not fixed. This calculator helps you to determine what your adjustable mortgage payments may be.

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Mortgage amount
Original or expected balance for your mortgage.

Starting interest rate
Initial annual interest rate for this mortgage.

Term in years
The number of years over which you will repay this loan. The most common mortgage terms are 15 years and 30 years.

Interest rate cap
This is the highest interest rate allowed by your mortgage. Your actual interest rate will not be adjusted above this rate.

Expected adjustment
The amount you believe that your mortgage's interest rate will change. This amount will be added to or subtracted from your interest rate.

Months between adjustments
The number of payment periods between potential adjustments to your interest rate. The most common is 12 months, which means your payment could change at most once per year.

Starting monthly payment
Monthly principal and interest payment (PI) based on your beginning balance and starting interest rate.

Total payments
Total of all monthly payments over the full term of the mortgage. This total payment amount assumes that there are no prepayments of principal.

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Real Estate Tips
Closing or Settlement >The Inspection Before Closing

Home buyers will have an opportunity to walk through the house they purchased just before the closing to make sure it is in the same condition as when the contract was ratified. They will check the appliances and make sure that the agreed-upon repairs were completed.

Buyers usually see their new home empty for the first time just after the movers have left. Suddenly they see the dark rectangles and nail holes where pictures used to hang, and all the "dust bunnies" that were concealed by furniture. The contract calls for the house to be "broom clean" and free of trash and debris. However, real estate agents encourage sellers to leave their homes impeccably clean for the pre-closing walk-through inspection, and many homes are turned over in spotless condition.

Sometimes the seller's hectic moving schedule, fatigue, or unequal housekeeping standards require the buyers to clean the house thoroughly before they feel that they can move in. If you are afraid that a messy house could trigger problems at the closing, be sure to make your house shine for this important inspection.

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Pat and Norm Brown, REALTOR®, real estate agent and broker for Sonoma County, Sonoma Valley and Sonoma, California home listings, property and land for sale - NUMBER1EXPERT

Pat and Norm Brown
Frank Howard Allen Realtors

470 First Street East
Sonoma, CA. 95476
707-939-2043
707-939-2505
707-484-7159
Fax: 707-939-2044
Email: pat-brown@NUMBER1EXPERT.com

Pat Brown is one of America's NUMBER1EXPERTS™ in the Sonoma area. Since obtaining her California Real Estate License in 1989, she was awarded Sales Person of the Year in 1991 for Keegan & Coppin Co. Sonoma office, was the Frank Howard Allen Realtors Wine Country Group #1 "Top Producer" for five consecutive years (1996-2000),and received the Chairman's Circle of Excellence distinction for top production between 1999 and 2005 from that same company. Pat says that her my real job satisfaction comes from helping people buy and sell their homes..."I care about people, I work hard, I get results, and I help my clients have a little fun throughout the process of buying or selling a home."

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