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CHECK YOUR CREDIT. Your score will determine your eligibility for a new loan; check it for about $20 at myfico.com (the site also has tips for improving your score). Every 20-point decline below 740 will mean additional fees, but with rates as low as they are, it’s worth shopping even if your credit isn’t tiptop. If your home loan is underwater but you’re current on your payments, you may still qualify via the government’s Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), which was extended through June 2012.
KNOW THE WORTH OF YOUR HOME. Any lender you choose will do its own home appraisal, but you’ll want to get an estimate before starting the process to be confident you have enough equity to make the cost of refinancing worth the savings. The better terms will generally go to homeowners refinancing 80 percent or less of their home’s appraised value. Compare estimates from online real estate information sites such as http://www.Zillow.com or http://www.Cyberhomes.com, as well as lender sites, including Bank of America and Chase.
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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.
Also you can check the yahoo directory at http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Real_Estate/Financing/Mortgage_Resources/Calculators/?o=a
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.
mortgage refinance right for us?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
This is how I figure if it is worth it.
If the re-fi is going to cost you $4000.00 in cost and your savings is $200.00 a month then divide the cost by the savings.
Your answer will be 20. That means it will be 20 months or payments before you have recovered the the cost to re- finance. If you plan to keep the home for several years then you have a savings and it was worth it.
But lets say you decide to move in two years (24 months) you only saved $800.00
I would only do it if I plan to keep the home for several years. I hope this helped and not to confusing. I see some people re-fi and then sell 1 year later. They didn't gain anything.
If you require a 9 percent return on your investments, which would you prefer? ?
If you require a 9 percent return on your investments, which would you prefer?
A.) $5,000 today
B.) $15,000 five years from now
C.) $1,000 per year for 15 yrs
2. The Mutual Assurance and Life Company is offering an insurance policy under either of the following two terms:
A. Make a series of 12 payments of $1,200 at the beginning of each of the next 12 years (the first payment being made today)
B. Make a single lump-sum payment today of $10,000 and receive coverage for the next 12 years
If you had investment opportunities offering an 8 % annual return, which alternative would you prefer?
3. You decide to purchase a building for $30,000 by paying $5,000 down and assuming a mortgage of $25k. The bank offers you a 15-year mortgage requiring annual end-of-year payments of $3188 each. The bank also requires you to pay a 3percent loan origination fee, which will reduce the effective amount the bank lends to you. Compute the annual percentage rate of interest on this loan?
4. Construct a loan amortization schedule for a 3-year, 11 percent loan of $30k. The loan requires three equal, end-of-year payments.
5. ira investments develops retirement programs for individuals. you are 30 years old and plan to retire on your 60th birthday. You want to establish a plan with IRA that will require a series of equal, annual, end-of-year deposits into the retirement acct. The first deposit will be made 1 year from today on your 31st birthday. The final payment on the acct will be made on your 60th birthday. The retirement plan will allow you to withdraw $120k per year for 15 years with the first withdrawal on your 61st birthday. Also at the end of the 15 year you wish to withdraw an additional $250k. The retirement account promise to earn 12% annually. What periodic payments must be made into the account to achieve your retirement objective?
6. Crab State Bank has offered you a $1,000,000 5-year loan at an interest rate of 11.25 percent, requiring equal annual end-of-year payments that include both principle and interest on the unpaid balance. Develop an amortization schedule for this loan.
7. using an online mortgage calculator (see http://moyer.swlearning.com) solve for the monthly savings and the number of months it takes to recoup the refinancing costs in problem 34. Hint under the question “what will it cost you?” enter 2850 for “Other” and 0 for all other items
Problem 34 (the Humphreys have 20 years remaining on their home mortgage loan. the loan balance is $125,000. the interest rate on the loan is 6.25 percent per year and their current monthly payment is $913.66. The Humphreys have been wondering if they should consider refinancing their mortgage loan as interest rates have fallen. After calling some banks Mrs. Humphreys found that she could get a loan for $125, 000mwith a maturity of 20 years at a rate if 5.1 percent per year. The refinancing will require that the Humphreys pay closing costs of $2,850. If the monthly savings in payments can be invested at 6 percent per year, would you recommend that the Humphreys refinance their home? Assume monthly compounding in solving this problem)
8. Use an online savings or retirement calculator (see http://moyer.swlearning.com) to solve the following problem: You are now 30 years old and would like to accumulate $2,000,000 in your retirement account at the age of 65. You currently have $50,000 saved in the retirement account. How much must you set aside at the end of each year over the next 35 years to attain your retirement goal if the account earns 6.5 percent per year? How much would you have to set aside each year if you currently have a zero balance in the retirement account?
9. Using one of the mortgage loan calculators available on the internet (see http://moyer.swlearning.com do a loan amortization for a $150,000, 30-year mortgage loan at a rate of 5 percent and answer the following questions?
a.How much is the monthly payment?
b.How much of the first payment (i.e., year 1, month 1) goes towards the interest? How much towards principal reduction?
c.How much of the 180 payment (i.e., year 15, month 12) goes towards interest? How much towards principal reduction?
d.What is the remaining balance on the loan at the end of the fifth year?
I'm not answering these questions for you. If finance or business is going to be your major or future career please go ahead and purchase a BA II Plus from Texas Instuments. Good luck in any classes that are above this level because to be honest this stuff is just intro level first month of the class stuff.
Get the BA II plus it will help you greatly.
Question about searching in search engines?
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I need to copy paste website addresses by searching in google
suppose I search mortgages in google
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Wells Fargo - the hyena's of the banking game?
Heard of Bait and Switch? Here's an example. Joe at Wells Fargo Financial calls and says - "Come in to our office, we can refinance your auto loan, give you $750 cash back and lower your payments!" Of course we went in to check out what they could do. We get there and the guy is ALL about our MORTGAGE, which we have with a different bank. After explaining that we are NOT interested in home equity loans or refinancing the mortgage through Wells Fargo, suddenly he CAN'T do anything for us on the auto loan. He actually started arguing with us about how it doesn't make any sense to him that we wouldn't take him up on his fabulous offer!! WHOA NELLY! What the hell just happened here? You don't get your grubby f-ing hands on my house, and the deal is off? Well, all I can say is, that guy is damn lucky my 8 yr old daughter was sitting there with my husband and I because if not, I think he may have found his little calculator crammed down his goddamn throat. Better Business Bureau, here I come
I must say I am amazed. Wells Fargo is my best lender and to hear that one of their employees would do this is distressing.
By all means report the loan office to the BBB and to his boss as well.