Georgia Cashflow
Option Loan or 12MAT information.
Effectively managing
monthly income and expenses, commonly
referred to as your "cash flow," is
an ongoing challenge for many
homeowners. Income may vary on a monthly basis
and unplanned
expenses may arise. In response to this need,
we created the Cashflow
Option Loan to provide you with greater flexibility
in managing your
monthly mortgage payment
For many of us,
our mortgage payment is our largest
monthly expense. It is also the least flexible.
If life were as
predictable as our mortgage payment, this would
be fine.
Unfortunately, in the real world, income fluctuations
and
unplanned expenses can wreak havoc on monthly
cash flow.
Greater Control With Four Payment Options
Our Cashflow Option Loan was specifically designed
to give
you greater control over your mortgage payment.
You have the
option of choosing one of four payment options
each month
based on your specific cash flow needs at the
time.
Minimum Payment A payment that is set for 12
months at a
reduced rate. This option not only maximizes
cash flow,
giving you more cash each month for other expenses,
but
may also defer payment of interest on your
mortgage loan,
potentially allowing you greater flexibility
in managing your
tax deductions.2 Plus, this payment will not
increase by more
than 7.5% each year, except when your loan
is recast every
five years or your principal balance exceeds
110% of your
initial loan balance.
Interest-Only Payment Defer paying principal
on your loan
and improve your monthly cash flow. The money
you
normally use for the principal portion of your
mortgage
payment can instead be used for other purposes,
such as
paying off high cost credit obligations or
investing. (This
option is not available if the payment would
be less than the
minimum payment. In this situation, no interest
is deferred
when you make the minimum payment.)
Two Fully Amortizing Payment Options Make a
principal and
interest payment based on a 30-year or 15-year
payment
schedule.
Choose Your Index
Our Cashflow Option Loan is
a monthly adjustable rate
mortgage, with your choice of either the 1-month
London
InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) or 12-month
treasury average
(MTA) for your index.
The LIBOR is the rate offered by banks in London
for U.S.
deposits. This index has gained tremendous
popularity as an
attractive alternative to many of the other
index choices because
it is an international index that reflects
the global economic
climate.
The MTA index is based on the 12-month average
of the
monthly yields of U.S. Treasury securities
adjusted to a constant
maturity of one year. It is calculated by averaging
the previous
12 monthly values of the 1-Year Constant Maturity
Treasury
(CMT) index. Because this index is an annual
average, it is
steadier than the 1-Year CMT index.
Deferred Interest Consideration
It is important to note that when you choose
to defer the
payment of interest by making less than the
interest-only
payment, the amount you defer is added to the
loan’s
principal balance. Until this deferred interest
is paid, you will be
charged interest on this additional amount.
Cashflow Option Loan
Effectively managing monthly income and expenses,
commonly
referred to as your "cash flow," is
an ongoing challenge for many
homeowners. Income may vary on a monthly basis
and unplanned
expenses may arise. In response to this need,
we created the Cashflow
Option Loan to provide you with greater flexibility
in managing your
monthly mortgage payment.
Providing you with greater flexibility in
managing our monthly mortgage payment.
Our mortgage experts can help
determine if this is the right
product for you.