My understanding is that the bank will not ask you to make up the 5% difference as long as you meet your monthly mortgage payment, and will not foreclose your home. The banks wants you to have a long mortgage and you have the ability to make the monthly mortgage payment. the longer, the better.
下面是美国的一个房产论坛. 不知"Astute Observation by OC Hunter "在上面的跟帖是否正确. 当然各个地方的银行政策可能不一样.
"Astute Observation by OC Hunter
2007-03-12 08:26 AM
The simple reason being that they are already stretched, when mortgage resets, their home value would be less than what they owe and the new mortgage bank would require them to pay the difference in order to get the financing, difference which we all know may also be in the $100,000’s."