If you are among the 6.5 million homeowners who took out a low-rate adjustable-rate mortgage during the housing boom, you’ve probably spent the past couple of years waiting for your day of reckoning to come.

After all, you’ve probably heard repeated warnings that when your ARM resets your payments would spike dramatically: an especially big problem if you used a low-rate ARM to stretch for a home you could barely afford.

The good news is that scenario hasn’t come to pass. Instead, interest rates have fallen to record lows, and when your ARM resets you’ll probably see your monthly nut fall, not rise.

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