If you buy a house and you don't pay the mortgage, the contract says you lose the house-- you're out--you've got to pay or it goes back to the mortgage originator.

如果你抵押贷款买房,却没有还房贷,贷款合同规定,你将被取消赎回权,失去房子,所以你必须偿还贷款,否则你的原始贷款人就会收回房子

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You pay every year a fixed amount on your house to the mortgage originator and then after so many-- n is 30 years, typically--you would then have paid it off.

你每年都在你的房子上支付一定数目的偿款,给抵押商然后,数年后,设n是30年,一般来说你已经能偿清贷款了

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