Juliette Van Rooyen asked:
The last thing that you want to worry about when you’re getting to the stage in your life when you are at the end of your life is a mortgage. Having something of that magnitude hanging over your head when you are lying on your “death bed” is unpaid debts or an unpaid mortgage. The length of your mortgage used to make this pretty much impossible, but as the length of mortgage terms has been forced to increase by market pressure, this is becoming ever more probable. For those people who bought a house after their twentieth birthday this is becoming ever more of a possibility as mortgages over fifty years in length becomes offered by more and more lenders.
The years where you are supposed to relax and enjoy are likely to become increasingly burdened by stress as the poor financial decisions made in youth come back to haunt you and your family. The last thing any person wants to do is leave their surviving family with debt and unpaid mortgages. The sky rocketing increase in house prices is making it more and more likely that survivors are going to be left with the responsibility to repay the mortgage that remains unpaid. The alternative to this is to acquire a mortgage so early in life that you can repay it before you retire and then get to enjoy your “golden years” without that stress.
The most common reason why people will suffer under the burden of a mortgage until the end of their lives is compound interest. This makes it harder and harder to repay the original mortgage and prolongs the period over which the mortgage is paid. The problem is that many people are being posed the situation that buying a house is completely out of reach without opting for an “intergenerational mortgage.” This then passes the burden squarely to those people who survive the people who took out the loan initially. This is unlikely to be in everyone’s best interest.
The longer the term you choose to maintain the mortgage for, the greater sum you end up paying to the lender. Even a difference in the length of your mortgage that is as small as a couple years can make startling amounts of difference for the mortgage holder. It also increases the length of time where stress is placed on the people who are repaying the mortgage. This pressure can more than counteract the benefits that people enjoy as a result of owning their own home. No one wants the last thing they say before they die to be “Don’t forget to pay the mortgage.”
Oscar
The last thing that you want to worry about when you’re getting to the stage in your life when you are at the end of your life is a mortgage. Having something of that magnitude hanging over your head when you are lying on your “death bed” is unpaid debts or an unpaid mortgage. The length of your mortgage used to make this pretty much impossible, but as the length of mortgage terms has been forced to increase by market pressure, this is becoming ever more probable. For those people who bought a house after their twentieth birthday this is becoming ever more of a possibility as mortgages over fifty years in length becomes offered by more and more lenders.
The years where you are supposed to relax and enjoy are likely to become increasingly burdened by stress as the poor financial decisions made in youth come back to haunt you and your family. The last thing any person wants to do is leave their surviving family with debt and unpaid mortgages. The sky rocketing increase in house prices is making it more and more likely that survivors are going to be left with the responsibility to repay the mortgage that remains unpaid. The alternative to this is to acquire a mortgage so early in life that you can repay it before you retire and then get to enjoy your “golden years” without that stress.
The most common reason why people will suffer under the burden of a mortgage until the end of their lives is compound interest. This makes it harder and harder to repay the original mortgage and prolongs the period over which the mortgage is paid. The problem is that many people are being posed the situation that buying a house is completely out of reach without opting for an “intergenerational mortgage.” This then passes the burden squarely to those people who survive the people who took out the loan initially. This is unlikely to be in everyone’s best interest.
The longer the term you choose to maintain the mortgage for, the greater sum you end up paying to the lender. Even a difference in the length of your mortgage that is as small as a couple years can make startling amounts of difference for the mortgage holder. It also increases the length of time where stress is placed on the people who are repaying the mortgage. This pressure can more than counteract the benefits that people enjoy as a result of owning their own home. No one wants the last thing they say before they die to be “Don’t forget to pay the mortgage.”
Oscar
