«Certainly shortening the term makes a lot of sense because you can
cut years of mortgage payments,» says Carl Nielsen of Mortgage Master Inc.'s Wayne office.
Not exact matches
While
cutting the repayment term in half significantly raises monthly
payments, a shorter loan will save you over half the final cost
of interest on a 30 -
year mortgage for the same loan amount.
By making one extra
payment a
year, you can
cut a significant amount
of time off the back your
mortgage, because you're paying the balance down sooner.
Somebody figured out, if I take my
mortgage payment and I
cut in half, and then I mail it in 26 times a
year, basically every time you get paid, you send in half
of your
mortgage payment.
It's by
cutting real
years off
of the backside
of that
mortgage and making harder
payments toward principal, reducing the balance faster on the front, and building equity faster by accelerating that
mortgage.
$ 100 more in the monthly
payment from the example $ 200,000
mortgage above would
cut five
years off
of the loan payback period!
While
cutting the repayment term in half significantly raises monthly
payments, a shorter loan will save you over half the final cost
of interest on a 30 -
year mortgage for the same loan amount.
In this example, choosing accelerated bi-weekly
payments instead
of monthly
payments on a $ 150,000
mortgage would save you more than $ 22,000 in interest costs, and
cut more than 3.5
years off the life
of your
mortgage.
This way if you are only 5
years in on your
mortgage you might be able to
cut an additional 5 to 10
years off and even keep the same
payment in a lot
of cases.
On a typical 25 -
year mortgage, anything extra you pay in the first 5 to 8
years (when most
of your
payments go towards paying off the interest) will
cut your interest bill and shorten the life
of your loan.
If you have a 30 -
year loan for $ 200,000 at 6.5 % and refinance at 4 %, it could
cut your monthly
payments by more than $ 300 and save more than $ 100,000 in interest over the life
of the loan, depending on how long you've been paying the original
mortgage.
Assuming you keep the same
payment term
of 20
years, your monthly
payment has now been
cut down from $ 1604 to $ 1,551, saving you $ 53 per month which you get to keep your CPF account (use the
mortgage calculator again to get these figures).
For a family buying the median home — which cost $ 234,900 as
of November — the
cut would have reduced their
mortgage insurance
payments by $ 576 a
year, according to the NAR.
In the case
of your comment above, you say that many people think it's a great idea to go green but question the expense; however, when I show Mr. and Mrs. Client that the overall monthly savings will allow them to make an extra
mortgage payment a
year and just doing that can
cut TEN
years off their
mortgage, your clients will start to listen.
This simple change in your
payment schedule will
cut approximately four
years off
of a traditional 30 -
year fixed rate
mortgage.