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Program: Home Loan Diary
Special requirements: None
Description: A very easy to use home mortgage diary and amortization
schedule calculator. Allows the user to see how much money they can
save by making additional principal payments each month to pay off a
loan early. Monthly payments and notes can be entered and saved to
disk.
To begin: LOAN Optional: LOAN [filename]
If the user adds an existing file name on the command line when
invoking LOAN.EXE, the program will load that loan record. In such
cases, you do NOT need the .HLD file extension. Example: If a
previously saved loan file exists as MAIN_ST.HLD, then you can
start the program --> LOAN MAIN_ST [ENTER]
If no file name is included on the command line when starting the
program, then the program will use a generic loan amount. Use
[B] within the program to change the base loan data. [M] will
allow the user to change their monthly loan payments, add notes,
and change interest rate (on adjustable rate loans).
Features: There are several things that are unique to HOME LOAN DIARY
that you do not find in other mortgage and amortization calculator
programs:
1) HOME LOAN DIARY has the ability to record user notes and
entries with each month's payment. The user can enter check numbers,
dates, etc., which will be permanently saved to disk.
2) Immediate recalculation of the entire amortization
table occurs whenever an additional principal payment is entered or
when the interest rate changes (for adjustable rate loans) during a
particular month. Just as responsive as a Lotus 1-2-3
spreadsheet, HOME LOAN DIARY gives you immediate recalculation based
upon your new input.
3) HOME LOAN DIARY shows you how much money you will save by
paying off your loan early. By making additional payments that are
applied to your outstanding principal, you can save THOUSANDS of
dollars over the period of a loan. This feature alone is worth the
price of registering HOME LOAN DIARY.
4) Scrollable amortization table. HOME LOAN DIARY is one of
the few shareware amortization calculators that allows the user to
scroll forward and backward through a loan table using cursor control
keys. To view the last payment of a loan, press the [END] key. To
view the first payment, press the [HOME] key. Simple! You can also
use the [PG DN] and [PG UP] keys to move in large increments, or use
the [UP ARROW] and [DOWN ARROW] keys to scroll through the table line
by line. Pressing a number key [1] - [9] will cause the table to
move to the payment number that matches the key entry or comes
closest to matching it in sequential order. For instance, if the
current payment number is 2, by pressing the number key [8] will
scroll the table so that payment 8 is at the top of the list. If you
press [8] again, the table will scroll until payment 80 is at the
top.
5) HOME LOAN DIARY was written for the homeowner. Although
mortgage companies, banks and other businesses may likewise find it a
helpful tool to use, this program was kept as simple as possible so
that homeowners could use it with confidence. Since it was written
for the homeowner, it is also one of the few mortgage programs
that encourages the homeowner to pay off his mortgage early, and
shows him why doing so is a very wise investment by revealing the
savings that will result.
Options: All of the options (such as printing, calculator, saving to
disk, etc.) can be performed at the main screen by pressing the
corresponding hot-key. Hot-keys are mnemonic. Press [C] for the
calculator, [P] to print, [S] to save, [R] to retrieve a file, etc.
Registration: $11.00 in the U.S. (see program).
Author: Philip P. Kapusta, P.O. Box 5423, Falmouth, Va. 22403, USA