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Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Terms
APR - Annual Percentage Rate

ARM Adjustable Rate Mortgage - Mortgage agreement between a financial institution and a boat buyer stipulating pre-determined adjustments of the interest rate at a specified intervals

Amount Financed
- This is the amount of credit provided by the bank on your behal

Coast Guard Documentation
- Coast Guard Documentation is the process of registering a boat with the U.S. Coast Guard so a First Preferred Mortgage of Vessel can be filed on a federal level to satisfy loan requirements.

Credit Scoring
- This is an objective methodology used by credit grantors to determine how much, if any, credit to grant to an applicant.

Down Payment
- A down payment is the dollar amount required down for a new or used boat

Finance Charge
- This is the cost of credit, including interest, paid by a customer for a boat loan or a consumer loan.

First Preferred Mortgage of Vessel
- A mortgage of vessel filed with the U.S. Coast Guard used as collateral for a boat loan.

Fixed Rate Loan
- Type of loan in which the interest rate does not fluctuate with general market conditions.

Insurance Binder
- The binder is an agreement executed by an insurer ( or sometimes an agent ) that puts marine insurance coverage into force before the contract is signed and the premium paid.

Interest
- Cost of using money, expressed as a rate period of time, usually one year, in which case its called an APR.

LIBOR London Interbank Offered Rate
- This is the interest rate offered by a specific group of London banks for U.S. dollar deposits of a stated maturity. LIBOR is used as a base index for setting rates of some adjustable rate financing instruments, including Adjustable Rate Mortgages. (ARM'S)

Loss Payee
- The Bank who provides the financing for a boat loan must be named as loss payee on the Marine insurance binder

Points
- Up front fee charged by a lender, separate from the interest rate but designed to increase the overall yield to the lender.

Prepayment Penalty
- Fee paid by a borrower to a bank when a loan or mortgage that does not have a prepayment clause is repaid before its scheduled maturity.

Prime Rate
- Base rate that banks use in pricing commercial loans to their best and most crfedit worthy customers.

Principal
- The face value of an obligation that must be repaid at maturity separate form the interest.

Satisfaction of Mortgage
- When a boat loan is paid a satisfaction of the mortgage is sent to the coast guard to satisfy the First Preferred Mortgage of Vessel

Terms
- Period of time which the conditions of a contract is carried out. Boat loan terms are usually fifteen ( 15 ) or twenty ( 20 ) years.

Total Of Payments
- The amount you will have paid after making all scheduled payments.

Variable Rate
- This is the interest rate on a loan that rises and falls based on a movement of an underlying index of interest rates.