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Reverse Mortgage Success Story: Jan - YouTube
Channel: Reverse Mortgages by Tim Oddo
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but it really it's been a huge blessing
it's been i mean not having that not
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having a mortgage payment
is huge it's a huge thing yeah and i
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really like the way that you and tim did
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it
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hi there i'm tim oddo reverse mortgage
specialist
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at oddo group with leader one financial
and today
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i have the privilege of having one of
my great clients and also a friend of
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mine jan
thank you jan for being here of course
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yeah and so
jan and i had the privilege of uh not
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only doing work with her but even
working together as well
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so jan understands mortgages very well
so
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jan when you uh when we first started
talking about a reverse mortgage
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um i kind of approached you and i said
hey what do you think about this
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and uh i wanted to talk to you about
that for you and your husband
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whose name is also tim great name by the
way um
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so did you have any concerns or any
apprehensions about a reverse mortgage
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when we first
kind of started talking about this
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subject no no apprehension about it um
it was more when we started talking it
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was more curiosity about where we're
gonna how we could do this yeah and then
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the more i talked to
is that well this would be silly to not
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do this
we were planning on staying in our house
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for the two at least two years
my husband has some health issues that
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we need to
we knew we would eventually have to move
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out of our two-story home into
a one-story um just for mobility and um
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we were able to put the reverse on not
have a house payment
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and we've got a significant amount of
equity in our house when we did this and
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didn't use up
a lot of it um
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not having a house payment has been
awesome
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it's huge it's very good to be able to
throw that money into savings or pay off
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other bills
and we were both still working so it um
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i mean that was yeah that's right
because at the time i mean even now you
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guys are both still working
so at the time that we did it we didn't
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wait until you guys were both retired
we did it while you were working so you
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had you know your incomes were
still very high but you're able to take
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that extra cash flow
i mean your mortgage payment was your
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single biggest expense every month so
you're able to take that
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and really then like you said i know you
know you guys were able to save more
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money and
and do those kind of things that you
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know more fun stuff i paid off my car
i paid i had two years left on my car i
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paid off my car
yeah that's right yeah like you paid off
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your car in a few months or something
yeah it's like awesome yeah so it's just
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having that extra cash and not having to
worry about it the only thing that i was
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apprehensive about was making sure that
we got our taxes and insurance paid
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without that going through escrow yes
yes no big deal
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and what we did for the taxes insurance
is we set up our escrow so that it was
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there a little bit yeah so i was there
to paint those
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without having to go and that's a good
point because on a reverse mortgage you
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typically don't escrow for the taxes and
insurance
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matter of fact if you have good credit
and you don't have any income issues
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we don't escrow which is a better thing
because that gives more
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that gives more money available you know
in your line of credit
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um and so but yeah that can be a little
daunting when you're been so used to
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making a mortgage payment for 30 years
and they pay the taxes for you but other
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than that that was really the only
apprehension and we know that there's
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still equity
and yeah so so jan now that it's been a
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couple years
you've actually had i mean are you
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surprised because a lot of people will
tell me
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what we're gonna use up all of our
equity you know right i mean if i do
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this i'm gonna use up all my equity
i'm not gonna have it for my daughter i
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know you have a daughter you know and
what's been your experience with that we
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haven't we haven't pulled any other
cash out of the equity other than just
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what was used we started out with only
using forty percent so there's still
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sixty percent
the bulk of it's still there yeah i mean
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because your loan balance is going up in
small increments
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but obviously where we're living the
equity has still been growing too
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because the house
continues to appreciate stuff so so now
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we're gonna have that hasn't been a
real concern and
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the increment that it's going up every
month is minimal too
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it's not yeah because of the loan amount
so
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yeah and actually in your guys's case
had you decided not to put that extra
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monthly cash flow in the savings you
could even make a partial payment on a
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reverse
a lot of folks don't understand you
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don't ever have to make a monthly
mortgage payment but you could actually
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make a
partial payment and negate some of that
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negative interest
which is kind of cool as well but it
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really it's been a huge blessing it's
been i mean not having that not having a
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mortgage payment is
huge it's a huge thing yeah and and i
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really like the way that you and tim did
at jam because
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you did it um before you retired before
you were on a fixed income
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and you were able to even kind of take
advantage of it more because
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you're still making a nice income right
and then you take an extra cash flow and
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pay off your car early
you know way early or put more in
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savings and it just gets you to a better
position to
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actually finally retire you know and and
i think you know one of the things that
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that i like to really kind of focus on
is
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this loan is not a loan of last resort
this loan is not for people that
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you know can't afford to make their
payments it's really a financial
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planning tool
that lets you get in a position to
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retire a little earlier right
and to be in less stress when it comes
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to that time and this this is a big part
of that i mean this
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is helping you feel comfortable to be
able to go ahead and retire
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so well i appreciate you coming in of
course i appreciate you and tim very
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much
and it's always fun to see you and um
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thanks for coming in and spending a few
minutes with me yes yeah
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all right thanks so if you have any
questions if you want to know what it
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might look like for you
or a more specific example of really
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what the power
of this loan can do please don't
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hesitate to reach out to me thanks
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