Word: teaser
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...like a 5/25. You get the near-term protection of a fixed rate for five years, and then the rate floats to market levels. Odds are that rates will move down within five years and you'll be able to refinance. Avoid one-year adjustables unless you need the teaser rate and expect a plumper income within 12 months. It's unlikely that market rates will be significantly lower when the teaser rate expires just a year from...
Avoid new debt if you can, and explore alternatives if you can't. For instance, you may be able to find a moderate fixed-rate credit card. That beats transferring your balance to a new card with a low teaser rate every few months. Most people fail to stay on top of that strategy, and many teaser rates don't apply to an old balance anyway. Home-equity lines of credit are easy to get, but the rate usually floats. Consider instead a fixed-rate home-equity loan for a one-time consolidation of debt. Beware though. Some lenders...
...chaos ensues. All in all, Murphy, who's had a bit of a golden touch with family comedies the last couple of years, juggles six different characters, Buddy Love being the only one that didn't require extensive makeup. The quality of the original was severely lacking and the teaser for this sequel suggests new lows in gross-out humor. There's no doubt it will make a bundle, but will it be watchable...
...ostensible objective of augmenting my knowledge of the Boston music underground, I must confess I was enticed, as any mortal must be, by the idea of swooning at the sight of Boston's hometown celebs. Flipping through the awards booklet, I began to get excited as I glimpsed a teaser promo on the inside cover, showing the smug faces of LFO along with the boast of the "Power of 3Times 5," LFO's label's commendation of the boys' five nominations, including...
...which he expresses his desire to remain in the U.S. The decision had been taken "so as not to take a position in this highly charged political atmosphere," said ABC News president David Westin, adding that Elian's views on the subject of returning to Cuba were contradictory - a teaser that will only increase the clamor to broadcast the tape...