If you are 62 years of age or older and if you own your home then only you are eligible for reverse mortgages. Reverse Mortgage is a loan which is basically given against your home and you may not pay the loan for the time you are living there. Whatever may be the loan amount, you are not required to pay the loan back unless you die or sell the home or permanently move out of your home. Reverse Mortgages are tax free in nature and they don't have any income restrictions.
There are basically three types of Reverse Mortgages
The benefits of Reverse Mortgages are
Reverse Mortgage Rates are subject to fixed or adjustable interest rates. The payment pattern in case of Reverse Mortgage is said to be "reverse". Here the payments are made by the lenders to the borrowers. But in case of regular mortgages the monthly repayments are made by the borrowers to the lenders.
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