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How 2026 FHA Reverse Mortgages Work
Meet Rosa: 72, widowed, sitting on about $460,000 of home equity — and tired of a mortgage payment eating into her fixed income. Should she get a reverse mortgage? In this episode we follow her, step by step, through a Rhode Island case scenario: who qualifies, how much she can actually borrow under the 2026 FHA limit of $1,249,125, the age-62 rule, the full process from HUD counseling to funding, and what happens to the home when the loan comes due. (Rosa is an illustrative example — not a real client or an actual HECM approval — used to show how the pieces fit together.) Brought to you by…
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