OT - interest rates

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Here are the historic mortgage rates by month for the past 43 years: http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.htm

Just after the Jimmy Carter years, mortgage rates topped out at over 18%. Average in 1988 was still 10.3% They were around 7.5% in the earlier 1970's. Pror to the Vietnam war, rates for decades were fairly steady at 5-6%.

Thanks, that was fascinating. As I suspected, our rates were decent for each time.