Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.
Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.
Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.
Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of the home or passes away.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
I'd been spending way too much money. I wasn't very sensible. I got to the point where I couldn't afford to even pay the mortgage.
We need a system that provides mortgage credit in good times and bad to a broad range of creditworthy borrowers.
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.
Once I started fighting in UFC, things took a big U-turn. After my second fight, I came home and paid my mortgage off.
We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it's sprinting away from a lion.
I'm a bit too old for anarchy. If I was younger I might be more political but I'm married with kids and I've got a mortgage.
If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.
You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.
It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program.
I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.
The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.
The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.
I appeal to everyone who understands what it is to have kids in school, have a mortgage, to work for a living; to have someone in their family or in their life who is less-abled and who is going to need help from the government.
Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and... is this going to be my prison?
I love voiceovers. You get to show up for half a day and pay your mortgage. How great is that?
Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.
The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
Until I have a family or a mortgage, I'm trying to keep my lifestyle simple and my apartment affordable so that I can continue to focus on theater. That's as good as it gets for me.
Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.
Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.
I can't say that while I sat at my desk cold calling or trying to help people re-mortgage that playing for England was a real achievable goal.
I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.
Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowers who expect to live in their home for a number of years.
Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'
If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.
Analysts say that one reason Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were privatized in the first place was to prevent political whims from dominating the mortgage marketplace.
Using realtime ads, even mortgage companies can create ads that matter to you right now.
I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes.
A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income.
Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
Some financial advisers say anyone who may move in less than seven years should not take out a reverse mortgage.
It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.
Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.
Congressman Watt has a long history of advocating against predatory lending and the mortgage practices that caused millions of families to lose their homes.
Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!
I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.
When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.
Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.
If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.
I became interested in 'Smallville' when 'Aquaman' was not picked up and my mortgage was due. Kidding. The real reason is that it was an easy decision.
Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.
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