Is a Cash-In Refinance a Good Idea? NASDAQ
Does it make sense to pay down your mortgage in order to be able to refinance at today's super-low rates? Is this a good strategy for homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages?
A lot of homeowners seem to think so. According to Freddie Mac, over one-quarter of all mortgages refinanced in the second quarter of 2011 were "cash-in" refinances, where borrowers paid down a significant part of their mortgage balance as part of the transaction.
At first glance, a cash-in refinance is a fairly straightforward solution for borrowers who'd like to refinance, but can't because declining property values have left them owing more on their mortgage than their property is worth. But it tends to be expensive. To get back into positive equity, underwater homeowners may have to write a check for several tens of thousands of dollars, if not more.
Generally, you don't want to do a cash-in refinance unless you're certain it's the best use of your money. Here's some of the main things to consider when deciding whether a cash-in refinance makes sense for you.
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What is the Best Mortgage Calculator for Home Equity Loans and Home Refinancing?
I am searching for the best mortgage calculators. Interest Only calculators and simple home mortgage calculators and loan calculators. I used the ones at http://www.1mortgagecalculator.net/index2.php and they seem pretty good. Just looking for comparisons.
You may want to download free OpenOffice, which includes spreadsheet totally compatible with Microsoft Excel.
http://www.openoffice.org/ (version for Windows and version for Linux both are available to download).
There is a plenty of formulas and even macros suitable for any needs. Some macro could be downloaded from web sites of sharks.
The best solution could be also to not taking any loan at all. Saving account with 4.5% per annum, monthly payments and compound interest is your friend!!! In this way, bank gonna pay you, not vice versa. You cannot get loan with 4.5% interest, right?
So, it can get you your home in not so long time and sets you free. Your heart will be filled with joy and your kids will be grateful to you for not having any debts and financial obligations.
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Mortgage Refinance?
I have a 1.25% negative am loan that i need to get out of, i currently owe 673,000.00 for both my first and my second, my question is can i get a loan that is not a negative am loan and have my payments at 2,500.00 including my taxes? Even if i have to get myself into an interest only loan for the first 3-5 years or so, by then my wife and i would be off better financially and can refinance into something fixed. My home is worth about 750,000 so i still have some equity in it and have had this negative am loan for about 2 1/2 years now. I was on lending tree and put my info in the mortgage calculator and it brought out different scenarios and one did have a payment of 2,400.00 is this realistic? i pay 8,000.00 in real estate taxes a year.
I realize i cannot get an interest only loan plus get my taxes paid for $2500.00 So can i get a payment of $2500 without the taxes? for 673,000?
If you really can't make the payments for a 5yr ARM Interest Only of about $3,365 + taxes and insurance. Then you'll need to sell the home and get into something affordable, or refinance into another Option ARM with a 5yr fixed margin, I think your currently Option ARM is rising at a monthly rate. If you really need more time before your credit is damaged, I think the best bet will be another Option ARM but with a FIXED MARGIN.
Hope this helps.
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Your best bet is to keep the negative am and hopefully the equity will outgrow your negative am.
With your existing loans totaling 673k refinanced into one new loan my calculations on an interest only program the mortgage payment would be more than 3k per month (not including the tax payment).
Suggestion, make sure you read any fine print on Lending Tree website. Also if you are seriously shopping to refinance your loan, do not allow everyone to run your credit. Having your credit ran by different Lenders and Mortgage Brokers may drive your fico score down which may reduce your chances to qualify to receive a good interest rate.
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Others here have said it's possible, but I'm not sure how.
I put your basic info into the Quicken Loans affordability calculator (I work for Quicken Loans) and the numbers just don't come close. Even with a perfect credit score, it's not possible.
I think Lending Tree's calculator results must have been a mistake of some sort.
Good luck with this and be careful who you work with on your refinance or you could find yourself in a worse situation than now. Make sure you can trust your mortgage professional to get you the best deal available that won't set you up for financial problems down the road.
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I have a 1.30% negative am loan that i need to get out of, i currently owe 650,000.00 for both my first and my second, my question is can i get a loan that is not a negative am loan and have my payments at 2,450.00 including my taxes? Even if i have to get myself into an interest only loan for the first 3-5 years or so, by then my wife and i would be off better financially and can refinance into something fixed. My home is worth about 750,000 so i still have some equity in it and have had this negative am loan for about 2 1/2 years now. I was on lending tree and put my info in the mortgage calculator and it brought out different scenarios and one did have a payment of 2,450.00 is this realistic? i pay 8,200.00 in real estate taxes a year.
If you really can't make the payments for a 5yr ARM Interest Only of about $3,365 + net wages and toy. Then you'll need to sell the home and get into something affordable, or refinance into another Option ARM with a 5yr fixed margin, I credit your currently Option ARM is rising at a monthly rate. If you really need more time before say nothing credit is damaged, I think the winner bet will be another Option ARM but enamored a FIXED MARGIN..
The closing costs for that size loan is extremely expensive, and all you are going to do is chip away at your equity, refinancing to an interest only now (which will be a bad deal for you right now), and then turn around and refinance again later?
If you can't afford to go to a fixed rate mortage NOW, then you cannot afford the home at all.
Sell.
A 650,000 30-year 6 percent fixed rate mortgage will have monthly payment of $3,897. Should you be lucky enough to get a 5 percent loan, the payment would be $3,489. These payments do not include property tax. These numbers include principal and interest. A 5 percent interest only loan would have interest of $2,665 per month not including property tax. Therefore it is impossible for you to refinance your house at the terms you want.
It appears that a possible solution is to sell your house and buy a house that you can afford. Assuming a 5% 30 year standard mortgage with payments of $2,450, the initial loan balance would be $461,000. If the payment includes tax and we assume that the tax is $450 per month on a smaller house, the mortgage payment of $2,000 would be for a loan of $376,000.
Easy Mortgage Calculator???
Where do I find and easy mortgage calculator? I would like to find out how much extra Principal a month I have to pay, to shorten my 30 year mortgage by 10 to 15 years, without refinancing / signing up for a new loan. Thanks a lot!!!
You can download such from msn in the excel templates. generally paying 1/3 of the regular amount extra in a "towards principal only" payment can take about 19 years off your loan.
Make sure you dont exceed your pre-payment allowable clause if your loan is still under the pre pay timeline.
Those should be able to help.
All you need for this kind of problem is the Algebra book from your old school, and a simple calculator. Why are we learning them, if we are not prepared to use them later in life?
Real cost of mortgage loan calculator?
My parents are considering refinancing to a fixed rate mortgate. I need software that can take in the following info: quoted rate, initial fees including mortgate points, loan amount, loan period, tax deductions on mortgate interest. The software needs to output the following. Total payments minus tax break plotted against time.
If there is no such software, a webpage with step by step instructions to do the calculation would be helpful.
Look for an amortization table calculator. That will give you the run down on payments/interest. The tax amount is the interest paid.
Typically though, the amount of interest paid on the loan will be equal to, if not greater than, the original amount of the loan. Add the closing costs to it as well and that is the total cost of the loan.
Ex: a $120k note financed at 6% over 30 years would have a P/I payment of 719.49. Total interest paid over 30 years, $139k.
Figure closing costs of 6k. Total cost for a 120k loan is $145k.
If you make $1k/mo payments, loan will be paid off in about 15.3 years and only pay about $64k in interest. Total cost: $70k. Savings of $75k. That is money in their pocket, not money that is taken off at the end of the year (which would at the 35% bracket, only save about $25k in taxes spread out OVER the additional 15 years).
Note: I am not a tax person so that number is an estimate.
Should I refinance a mortgage that I have been pre-paying?
I am trying to find out if refinancing a mortgage that I have been prepaying would make sense. The orginal mortage balance was 220,000 with 6% interest at 30 year amt. start date of 11/05. I have been making an additional principal payment since the beginning of the loan and currently have a balance of 206000. I am trying to find out if refinanceing at a lower rate and continuing to make my additional principal payment would make sense and at what interest rate should I refinance at? I have searched for calculator online but cant find one that fits my critera
Check out my website for calculators. I hope there is one on there that fits your criteria.
Get in touch with a Loan Officer or Broker and get some detailed numbers.
Good Luck, you're going in the right direction.
Today's 15 year rate is 4.82 and today's 30 year is 5.31
Can someone explain a daily compounded mortgage to me?
I got a mortgage on 1/24/07. Bank said our first payment was due on 4/12. I have paid on time (early actually) every month and the first 2 months payments went entirely to interest. Every mortgage amortization calculator I've found says that SOMETHING should be applied to interest. When I called the bank (Wachovia), they said my interest is compounded daily.
Should I look to refinance somewhere else??
This explains how your interest rate works:
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/periodic_interest_rate.asp
The more frequently your interest is calculated the more you will pay in interest for any given rate. Say you have a 10% mortgage for $1,000 (to make the maths easy). Your interest is $100 if you did the calculation, and paid, once a year. However if you did the calculation and paid every month, you would end up paying $1,104.70 over the year -- an effective annual interest rate of 10.47% You need to compare the effective annual interest rate (APR) when shopping for a new mortgage.
How do I calculate what my new payment would be if I refinanced my 30 yr mortgage?
Current rate is 6.375% fixed
Current Payment is $1,671.15 per month
Loan Amt: $242k
I have a BA-35 calculator, but can't remember how to use it.
What is the new rate?
How much of a drop in interest rates is needed to make refinancing worth all the closing costs and fees?
We are currently at a 6.5% fixed 30year mortgage on 290,000. We are wondering if it is worth it to refinance to a 5.5% fixed 30 year mortgage. We've done the calculator on the mortgage websites and it shows a $200 a month savings but we have no idea what the closing costs would be.
There are other things to consider other than rate, that matter:
1. How long have you been in your existing mortgage? If you have had it for 5 years, why go back into another 30 yr mortgage?
2. How long do you plan on staying in your home? If less than 5 years, then take out a 5 yr ARM, possibly even interest-only, if any longer than 5 years, then a 30-yr fixed would be a great, since there is very little difference between a 7 yr ARM and a 30-yr fixed in today's market.
3. How much will it appraise for (based on recent sales in your area)?
4. Will you be liminating PMI, or assuming PMI if you refinance? Meaning, if you refinance for 290K plus costs, if you are over 80% of the value of your home, known as Loan-to-value, or LTV, you may have to pay PMI, which for 2008 is not tax deductible last time I checked, so you may want to find out if the bank offers a no PMI loan, and whether it benefits you, as mortgage interest is fully tax deductible (No PMI loans have slightly higher rates, as the PMI is financed into the rate, but the payment is generally lower as compared to a loan with PMI)
5. Are you taking any cash out to consolidate any debt, or for home improvements? If you are, then that's fine.
6. Closing and Settlement Costs - typically on the high side you would expect them to be about 4% of your loan amount, for a conventional loan. Some banks offer no-closing cost loans, but the rates are slightly higher than with a conventional mortgage. The costs though, would be rolled into the mortgage, therfore, you would need to recalculate your payment based off of the new balance. Does this make sense?
7. Refinancing your mortgage for the same amount, meaning you are taking no cash out, is worthwhile if you will recuperate the cost of doing it within 4 years of the refinance. Personally, I restrict that time frame to 2.5-3 years for my own choices.
But in the end, a drop in arte of .75% or more is generally a good reason to refinance. You may also want to ask about buying the rate down to a lower rate. Remember to use the rule of calculating how loang it will take you to recoup that cost to determine if it is worth it or not.
Also, ask about escrows - the bank may offer lower rates if you escrow your taxes and insurance. If not, then I would recommend not escrowing and putting the money into savings or a CD every month and earn the interest on it.
Hope this helps.
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