Public Reverse Mortgages and Long-Term Care: Can They Work ...
And they are weighed down by high fees (there is a servicing fee, an origination fee, mortgage insurance premiums, closing costs, and, of course, the interest). At the same time, a troubling number of users are relatively young borrowers ... Normally, I'm no fan of the government's doing what the market could do. Unfortunately, like long-term care insurance, private reverse mortgages are failing. A quasi-government agency might allow consumers to tap unused home equity ...