If you're diligent with repayment strategies, you can double up your payments and shorten your 25 - year
amortization schedule down to five or seven years.
Not exact matches
The time it takes you to reach that threshold will depend on your
amortization schedule and your initial
down payment.
The time it takes you to reach that threshold will depend on your
amortization schedule and your initial
down payment.
The lower the interest rate, the faster the principal balance gets paid
down on the front end of an
amortization schedule so it's important to take this savings into consideration.
Obviously, given all the other conditions equal, if the fixed rate goes
down - payment amount of the
amortization schedule should also go
down.
Basically, the
amortization schedule must be recalculated every time the interest rate moves up or
down.
look
down your
amortization schedule and compare the 200k principle / interest to the 175k principle / interest.....
I'm too lazy to break it
down by what the
amortization schedule says.
Paying
down the principal by an
amortization schedule makes it more tricky.
When the time comes to do so, I think it comes
down to just «running the numbers» and seeing which one saves you the most between interest rates and loan term length and how far you are into the
amortization schedule.
Assuming you have a respectable FICO you can buy, with a FHA Loan (3 - 5 %
down, a 30 year
amortization schedule, and a residential loan rate).
In addition to breaking
down each payment into interest and principal portions, an
amortization schedule also indicates interest paid to date, principal paid to date, and the remaining principal balance on each payment date.
To refresh, an
amortization schedule is used to break
down monthly payments of principal and interest over a set time period, commonly 20, 25 or 30 years.
A 30 - year
amortization schedule breaks
down the monthly payments to pay
down the full amount over 30 years and a 25 - year
amortization is paid over 25 years, etc..