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Real Estate : Homeowners Last Updated: May 14th, 2012 - 22:24:01


"Banker's Secrets" Revealed By Jon Richards
Jon Richards
 
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I think it's time someone put a stop to the accelerated mortgage nonsense. This scheme, variously known as the "Banker's Secret," or accelerated mortgage plan, or bi-weekly mortgage plan are almost always a poor deal for the person who decides to go into on of these programs. This is true for at least three reasons.

You don't need to pay for someone else's help to make extra payments on your mortgage. Just do it yourself, and direct the bank to apply the extra money to your principal.

For tax reasons, you should carefully consider whether you want to pay off your mortgage. If you are paying 10% nominal interest, your effective interest rate is closer to 7% because the interest is deductible from your income tax.

Paying off your house early is only useful if you, for whatever reason, are unable to find an investment paying more than your current mortgage.

If you had a $100,000, 10% mortgage amortized over 360 months with payments of $877.57; you could pay an additional $197.04 per month and pay off that mortgage in only180 months and save $122,929.17. To the average person this sounds like an amazingly lucrative savings. But, we as mortgage buyers, ought to know enough to see through this silliness.

If we invested that $197.04 in a good quality (no-load) mutual paying 14% per year, at the end of 180 months we would have $119,364.13. Now you sell the mutual fund and pay off your $100,000 loan which now has a balance of only $81,665.29, and you pocket the $37,698.84.

Better yet, don't pay off you house. At the end of 30 years you will have paid for your house and your fund balance will be around $1,082,335.00 (before taxes.)

So clearly, the "time value of money" makes the early payoff of your home loan more interesting than is readily apparent to the lay person. But after all these are mathematical arguments. Some people just want to own their home free and clear. If that's what you want to do, at least understand what you are doing, and do so with your eyes open. Don't fall for the "banker's secret."

Jon Richards is the Publisher of "NoteWorthy" a newsletter for Note Brokers, Buyers and Real Estate Investors.



For more information, contact:
Jon Richards, Publisher
NoteWorthy, Inc.
Post Office Box 31451
San Fransisco, California 94131
1.800.487.1864 / jrichard@slip.net

 

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