Chapter 8-Preserving Your Credit

Section 8-2:

Terms:

1.Down payment:

2.Trade-in:

3.Preapproved loan:

4.Car lease:

5.Refinancing:

6.Appreciating:

7.Market Value:

8.Equity:

9.Mortgage:

10.Balloon payment:

12.rent-to-own-agreement:

13.Prepayment penalty:

Questions:

1.What is long-term debt? Give examples.

2.What is amortization?

3.What is an installment loan?

4.How is a car loan typically set up? How does a down payment affect the car loan?

5.How does a trade-in affect a car loan?

6.What does it mean when a car “depreciates”?

7.What does it mean to have an upside-down loan?

8.What is a preapproved loan?

9.What are some common loan terms? How is the loan affect with a longer term?

10.What is a car lease? What are the terms? Why would you want to lease a car rather than buy?

11.Explain what happens when you pay on a loan.

12.What is refinancing? What is involved in refinancing?

13.What does it mean when a house is “appreciating”?

14.What is equity?

15.What are some advantages to owning a home?

16.What are the options for financing a house?

a.Conventional loan

b.FHA loan

17.What are closing costs?

18.What is a fixed-rate mortgage?

19.What is an adjustable-rate mortgage?

20.What is a debt repayment plan?

21.Student loan debt:

a.deferred-payment loan

b.Subsidized student loans

c.Unsubsidized student loans

22.What does it mean to consolidate your loans?

23.What is “loan forgiveness”?

24.What are some options for a mortgage loan term? Why would you want a shorter term?

25.What is a balloon payment? When is it due? How does it affect a mortgage loan?

26.What are the terms of a rent-to-own agreement?

27.What are some things that can be purchased with a rent-to-own agreement?

28.What is “right of first refusal”?

29.What happens if you decide not to purchase a personal property item?

30.What is the main disadvantage to a rent-to-own agreement?

31.What is a prepayment penalty? What are the terms of it?

32.What are some advantages of paying off a debt early?