A down payment is cash that you pay up front before the mortgage starts. Itâs money that signals to the lender that youâre a good candidate for a mortgage: youâve managed to save up some money, and you care enough about the home to put a chunk of your savings toward making it yours.
Ken (doll) Ken is a toy doll introduced by Mattel in 1961 as the fictional boyfriend of toy doll Barbie, introduced in 1959. Similar to his female counterpart, Ken had a fantastically fashionable line of clothing and accessories. In the Barbie mythos, Ken and Barbie met on the set of a TV commercial in 1961.
Like Barbie, Ken is named after one of Ruth Handler 's children, Ken Handler, who died in 1994 of a brain tumor. In January 2009, the media reported on the publication of a book entitled Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel by Jerry Oppenheimer.