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MORTGAGE.EXE Version 2.0
This program will compute the four main pieces of a mortgage.
1) Monthly payment. This will only calculate the principal
plus interest payment portion of your mortgage.
You may need to add the monthly escrow payment
for insurance and taxes if required by your loan.
This may have to be a rough estimate on a new
home, but if you are refinancing, the taxes
should remain the same and insurance should only
change if you change your policy.
2) Loan Amount. This is the amount you wish to borrow or
the maximum amount you could borrow under the
constraints you choose (ie. payments and life of
loan at the interest rate you are offered).
3) Interest. This is the yearly interest rate you are
paying with the constraints entered. You can
use this the find what interest rate you need
to get in order to make refinancing payback.
4) Years of Loan. Finance texts call this the life of the
loan. Typically this is either 15 years or 30
years but if you choose to calculate it it may
be much different than either. This is useful
to see how long it will take to pay off your
loan if you make extra payments (assuming they
are permitted by your mortgage company). To do
this, just add the extra payment to your regular
payment (ignoring escrow payments) at your
current interest rate and the value of your loan.
In addition ot the above information, you can produce a monthly
table of pertinent data (F9) such as beginning and ending balances.
The amount of money paid toward the principal and interest will also
be displayed. Keep in mind that extra payments will reduce the
ending balance and all remaining interest payments. This table can
used to compute the amount of interest you can declare on your taxes.
BUT, timeliness of payments (when your mortgage comapny receives your
payment) may determine whether a December or January payment goes on
last year or next year. (ie. an early January payment may be counted
in the prior year's interest. This would increase the tax deduction
for last year but lower it for the next year. So what I am saying is,
you can use this program for planning purposes but rely on your
mortgage statements for your taxes.)
If you have a non-standard monochrome monitor that somehow emulates
color (maybe shades of gray) it may fool my program into thinking it
is color and most of my screen displays may not show up. To force
MORTGAGE to display in monochrome enter MORTGAGE BW and the program
will display correctly (but in black & white) on a monochrome screen.
Most CRTs will display correctly without the BW parameter.
Should you find this useful and wish to encourage me to maintain
and update this program, please send money. Any amount will do.
Typically, in my line of work, consultants charge somewhere in the
neighborhood of 5% of projected savings for 5 years. If you save
$100 per month on your mortgage payment that would amount to a $300
fee. However I am willing to except anything from $0 to several
million. If you send more than $10 I will put you on my mailing
list and you will get the next version of MORTGAGE.EXE as soon as
it is available.
Thanks.....
Frederick H. Rexroad
152 East Limestone Street
Yellow Springs, OH 45387