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US 2003/0225685 A1Published application
Fixed rate gradually stepped payment loan
OwnerWendell Dickersoninventor
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A gradually stepped payment (GSP) mortgage loan at a fixed rate of interest has payments that are gradually increased over much or all of the loan term. The payments may be increased monthly, annually or on other schedules. The increments are predefined at the beginning of the loan so that the borrower may account for and predict the changes. The general method for creating the GSP loan is to start with a predefined loan amount, initial payment amount, interest rate and loan term. Given these four constants, a lender calculates the growth rate by which the loan payments increase to produce a desired present value for the total GSP payments. The growth rate may also be affected by other predefined factors affecting the current value calculations, such as the timing and duration of the payment increases. The growth rate is likely to be a unique multi-decimal number, as opposed to a full or half percent (or combination thereof). With the GSP loan, the stream of increasing loan payments has a present value equal to than the present value for a stream of constant payments associated with a conventional fixed rate self-amortizing loan of comparable interest rate, term and amount.
A method for forming a lending instrument, the method comprising the steps of:
A lending instrument created through a process comprising the steps of:
The lending instrument of claim 11, wherein the stream of payment increases during half or more of the loan term.
The lending instrument of claim 11, wherein the growth rate is not a whole number or a half of a whole number.
The lending instrument of claim 11, wherein the initial payment is greater than or equal to an interest only portion of a fixed rate conventional loan having similar interest rate, principal, and term.
The lending instrument of claim 11, wherein a comparable fixed rate conventional loan has a reference term and the same interest rate and principal, wherein the initial payment is equal to payments from the comparable fixed rate conventional loan, and term of the loan is less than the reference term.
The lending instrument of claim 11, wherein the loan term is selected so that the stream of payments comprises interest-only portions that sum to be equal to total interest paid with an equivalent fixed rate conventional loan
The lending instrument of claim 11, wherein the method used to form the lending instrument further comprises selecting a buydown amount, wherein the stream of payments is further defined by the buydown.
A lending instrument comprising a stream of payment, the stream of payments having a predefined initial payment and subsequent payments comprising the initial payment modified by a growth rate, wherein the growth rate is calculated so the stream of payments has present value equal to a borrowed principal.
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