I got some great news last week....

[LRDave]

My Penfed 5/5 ARM adjusted from 2.5% to only 2.625%. I assumed back when I got the 2.5% rate that it would adjust to the max for the next 5-year period. I had it budgeted that way and honestly forgot about it (which is silly).

We should be selling this suburban boat anchor within the next adjustment period.

 

[athena53]

Always great when the "adjustable" part works in your favor! My first husband bought a condo in 1982 when interest rates were sky-high. His credit was bad, too, which didn't help. He got an ARM at 16.5%. It adjusted annually and by the time he sold it in 1985 the rate had adjusted down to 12.5%. I forget what the market rates were but they were definitely lower. I bet the bank was unhappy to see it paid off.

 

[MooreBonds]

My Penfed 5/5 ARM adjusted from 2.5% to only 2.625%. I assumed back when I got the 2.5% rate that it would adjust to the max for the next 5-year period. I had it budgeted that way and honestly forgot about it (which is silly).

We should be selling this suburban boat anchor within the next adjustment period.

I had re-fied into the PenFed 5/5 ARM product back in 2011 or so, when it was (I think) 3.375%. I have several long-term options, and there is only a smaller chance that I'll be living in this exact house long-term (will likely either move or tear down and rebuild). So to avoid rolling the dice with the 5 year reset (since I knew rates just had to be higher 5 years later! ), I refied a year later into their 1.99% 5 year Home Equity loan.

Good to hear that your reset was miniscule! Enjoy the next 5 years! But not silly at all on assuming rates would max-out, since that's what I had initially assumed (since the max rate increase was, I think, 2% increase, to 5.375%).

 

[braumeister]

I just got a new PenFed 5/5 ARM last month, also 2.5%.
There's no chance I won't pay it off before it resets, since it's just a bridge loan until we sell the old house, but I was really happy to get it. The other thing that surprised me was that when I started the application, it specified a half point, yet when the transaction was completed, it was only a quarter of a point.

There are still a lot of things about PenFed that are hard to beat!