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Gold Disk Spreadsheet | 1991-12-11 | 2.6 KB | 46 lines |
- AThis template can be used to estimate the cost of buying a home.
- ?You give it tax deductions (such as interest) and equity (like
- <the home's appreciation, and the percentage of each month's
- 6payment which goes into equity rather than interest).
- <NOTE: This calculation is only good for the first month of
- >payments; subsequent months will end up with different values
- (mostly in favor of buying).
- BThis example is of a three-bedroom town house near Santa Barbara.
- Price of Home
- 285000
- Deposit
- 28500
- Number of years
- Insurance + Misc
- Yearly tax on home
- Annual interest rate
- Top Tax Bracket
- fffffd
- Monthly home appreciation%
- = 0 td
- Monthly Rent
- B ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Monthly Payment
- 2756.36
- Monthly interest payment
- 2137.50
- Monthly Equity investment
- 618.86
- House taxes
- 475.00
- Monthly tax savings
- 914.37
- Appreciation
- 1710.00
- Change in Net Worth
- 380.73
- Better than renting?
- YES!!!
- YES!!!
- !Not at least for the first month
- AIn this example, the owner is gaining about $400 a month to live
- Ain the home, as compared to loosing 800 dollars a month in rent.
- Not a bad bargain.
- ?However, the homeowner does have to keep up a cash flow to pay
- for the mortage.
-