How Does an ARM Adjust? Holders of adjustable-rate mortgages across the country are demonstrating to complain that the rate used to calculate their loans has actually gone up. In some cases loan payments went up by 9%. “What is this ‘COFI’?” asked one borrower in California. “Next thing you’ll tell me is that the value [...]
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