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Graduated Payment Mortgages
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graduated payment mortgages
- mortgages that begin with lower monthly payments that get slowly larger over a period of years, eventually reaching a fixed level and remaining there for the life of the loan. Graduated payment loans may be good if you expect your annual income to increase.
Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development