Tuesday, June 10, 2008

How To Use A Mortgage Repayment Calculator

How To Use A Mortgage Repayment Calculator
Why try to do the complicated figuring that is required
when you are trying to refinance your mortgage on paper
when you can use web tools to do it for you? There
mortgage payment calculators available for free on the
internet that you can use to see how all the relevant costs
and sums will add up within a thirty-year refinance loan
term. These kinds of tools provide the accuracy that you
need to determine if you can really afford to refinance
your mortgage now or if it would be better to wait until a
later date.

Having access to a web-based mortgage calculator is taken
for granted these day when only a decade and half ago you
would have visited a qualified accountant or a mortgage
specialist to have your mortgage rate calculated. You as a
borrower had no real information about the sort of costs
that were involved for future payments on a home loan or a
refinance. The terms of the loan period were explained and
the borrower was told what expect when they choose a
particular mortgage rate.

Now the borrower is at an advantage because they have
access to the same tools that are used by lenders to
calculate a specific mortgage rate. When they approach a
lender for a loan, there is not so much guesswork or
assumption on the borrower's part.

An online mortgage calculator provides a very detailed
summary as well as an explanation of what the mortgage
amortization rate will be for various loan terms that you
choose to examine. In a matter of minutes, you will be
able to determine if you can afford a mortgage without much
effort. You will save yourself from a useless visit to a
lender to make inquiries and find out you cannot get a
mortgage that way.

An online calculator should provide you with at least the
following information once you have decided upon a
particular loan term:

Monthly payment based on the home's selling price. Interest
rates. Downpayment percentage.

To use a mortgage calculator you will be required to put in
specific information like he sale price of the home, the
percentage of the downpayment, the length of the mortgage,
as well as the annual percentage rate. With this
information inserted you can click a button to have
everything explained in more detail and then hit a
calculation button to get the mortgage rate.

This procedure should let you know whether you can even
afford to get a mortgage loan. Of course, if you have a
20% cash downpayment for the mortgage amount listed you can
end up saving thousands of dollars on the mortgage amount.
You can refer to a mortgage calculator to get information
on the month number, interest paid, principal paid, and the
remaining balance from year one to the present year so that
you have everything you need.

You can save yourself time, money, and simply wondering
whether you can afford a mortgage by making use a free
online mortgage calculator.


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Peter Kenny is a writer for The Thrifty Scot, please visit
us at http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/Loans/ and
http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/mortgage/

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