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- MORTGAGE.EXE Version 2.0
-
- This program will compute the four main pieces of a mortgage.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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-
- 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
-