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Finance Exam Prep
Finance Exam Prep
The term amortization refers to:
Payment of a debt in regular periodic installments of principal and interest
A payment of a loan by principal payment only
A balloon payment at the end of a loan
Interest-only payments over the life of a loan
A partially amortized note which reduces part of the principal by the time the final payment is due is often called a/an:
Balloon payment/balloon note
Wraparound mortgage
Fully amortized loan
Conventional loan
An instrument used to transfer title from a trustee to the equitable owner of real estate when title was held as collateral for security for a debt is most often called a/an:
Deed in lieu of foreclosure
Deed restriction
Deed of trust
Deed of reconveyance
A blanket mortgage would involve which of the following?
A loan with a balloon payment at the end
Two loans combined into one interest rate
A fully amortized mortgage
A single loan with two or more parcels of property offered as security
The seizing of property by court order as security for a debt or judgment is known as:
Attachment
Capitalization
Alienation
Encumbrance
An alienation clause in a mortgage refers to the clause that:
Allows the lender to call for full payment of the mortgage because the owner transferred ownership to another party
Allows the lender to charge a penalty for early payment
Pledges the property as security to a third party
Say the entire mortgage is due if the owner moves outside the United States
Often times called the "due on the sale clause", the alienation clause says that the entire mortgage balance will be "due on the sale" of the property. The hypothecation clause is the transfer of property as a pledge of security for repayment of the debt.
A clause used in a mortgage allowing the lender to call for the full payment of the mortgage because the owner transferred ownership of the property to a third party is known as the:
Alienation clause
Prepayment clause
Appreciation clause
The hypothecation clause
A G.I. loan is the same as:
A conventional loan
A FHA loan
A co-insured loan
A VA loan
A buyer applies for a loan that is neither insured nor guaranteed by a government agency. For which type of loan is the borrower applying?
Conventional
Land Contract
FHA
VA
Interim financing used during construction of a building followed by long term financing is called:
FHA mortgage
Bridge loan
Conventional loan
Construction loan
A homeowner receives a duplicate 1099 form from the bank showing how much interest has been paid over the last year and what the principal amount is remaining on the mortgage. This document that the homeowner receives is called:
Certificate of title
Certificate of sale
Certificate of habitation
Estoppel certificate
A certificate of title, also known as an opinion letter, gives an opinion stating that the title is vested in a particular individual. A certificate of sale is issued to a buyer at a judicial sale and entitles a buyer to the deed upon confirmation of sale by court. An estoppel certificate, sometimes called a certificate of no defense, is a legal instrument used by the bank to stop the mortgage and to indicate what the mortgage balance is on a certain date, after which the mortgagor has no defense unless he/she contests in a timely manner.
A type of financing available for real estate mortgages in which the annual percentage rate will differ from year to year according to terms specified by the lender is known as:
Fixed rate mortgage
Amortized Loan
Adjustable rate mortgage
Fluctuating loan
Which loan is not guaranteed or insured by a government agency?
VA
Land Contract
Conventional
FHA
What type of single mortgage loan exists when two or more different parcels of property are offered as security for the loan?
Wraparound mortgage
Variable rate mortgage
Fixed rate mortgage
Blanket mortgage
A person receiving an adjustable rate mortgage would expect to pay the:
principal that includes no interest on the loan
interest which would fluctuate on a year -to-year basis according to term specified by the leader
interest only toward the loan and then one balloon payment at the end of the term
same amount of interest every month
A person with an adjustable-rate mortgage would expect the interest rate to change yearly according to terms specified by the lender. With a fixed-rate mortgage, the interest rate does not fluctuate. A straight line mortgage is a loan in which only interest is paid and then one balloon payment of principal is made at the end of the loan.
A buyer is late with the monthly mortgage payments. The lender could declare the entire unpaid loan amount due immediately under which of the following clauses?
Acknowledgement clause
Acceleration clause
Hypothecation clause
Accretion clause
Hypothecation refers to the pledge of the property as security for collateral for a loan. The term accretion refers to the addition of soil to property by the gradual operation of natural causes (i.e. the opposite of erosion).
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