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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ W E L C O M E │
- │ Demonstration of Financing your Home │
- └──────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Welcome to Financing your Property, an easy to use program
- for analyzing what is the best mortgage for you. All input is
- through one screen. The results are shown on-screen. During
- the calculation process the screen will display the numbers
- as they are changing.
-
- In addition whenever you press the F1 key, a help message
- will be displayed. The message is context sensitive to the
- location of the cursor.
-
- Several graphs are available to shown a trend in interest
- rates for T-treasury bills, 11th district cost of funds and
- annual price increase or decrease for home sales in the USA.
-
- You can track your monthly payments to adjust for any added
- principal payments during the life of the mortgage. All
- detail is kept in a file, to be recalled at any time.
-
- All loan calculations, including amortization, are presented
- in accordance with established banking conventions.
-
- Before working with Financing your Property, please read the
- documentation. It is set-up as follows:
-
- > Program Features
- > Copyright notice
- > System requirements
- > Installation procedure
- > Set-up
- > Program Capacity
- > Menu structure
-
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Financing Your Home │
- │ (c) 1991-1992 by Leonard Ansin │
- └─────────────────────────────────┘
-
- This software is protected by both United States Copyright Law and
- International Treaty provisions.
-
- The Ansin Group and Leonard Ansin owns and retains all copyright, trade
- secret, and other proprietary rights in the licensed software.
-
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Ansin Documentation Addendum │
- │ Mar 2, 1992 │
- └─────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Financing Your Home Demonstartion Program
- (C) 1991-92 by The Ansin Group
-
- If you need any assistance please contact The Ansin Group
- at (617) 332-4500 48 Mechanic St., Newton, MA 02164
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────┐
- │ System Requirements │
- └────────────────────────────────┘
-
- The programs operate on all DOS machines with a hard disk, 540,000 bytes
- of conventional memory, DOS 2.1 or later.
-
- Before running the program, it is best to remove any terminate and stay
- resident (TSR) programs, such as Sidekick.
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Program Installation │
- └────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- A: is the floppy drive letter (SOURCE) and may be changed to meet
- your specifications.
-
- place the disk in the Disk Drive.
-
- Set the DOS prompt to the disk drive
-
- type FINANCE and press [ENTER]
-
- Follow the on-screen promots
-
- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Is it time to refinance your property ! │
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘
- Refinancing your existing home mortgage is the hot item for today's home-
- owners and Mortgage rates are at the lowest in several years. Lenders are
- welcoming the ever increasing number of home owners who want to refinance
- their property, but is it the best time to refinance your
- home ?
-
- Most refinancing applications want to replace their adjustable rate
- mortgage (ARM) with a fixed-rate loan; depending on your circumstances,
- this may not always be the case. In recent years. ARM's have lost the
- consumer's interest since the spread between the ARM and a Fixed rate
- mortgage used to be at least 2 points; today. both mortgages starting rates
- are nearly the same.
-
- Luckily, there are a number of different types of fixed rate mortgages. In
- the interest of your pocketbook, you should contact as many lenders as
- possible and get their rates, downpayment or loan to value ratio, fees and
- what additional costs. At the time I wrote this Boston area rates ranged
- from 7 3/4% on a 15 year loan with 4 points to 9% on a 30 year loan with
- 1/2 point. As these numbers show, it is more important than ever to check
- with as many lenders as possible.
-
- Let's take a look at some of the rates that have caused the home mortgages
- to decline dramatically. One-year Treasury Bills have dropped from 8% in
- early 1990 to approximately 5 % today. It's very tempting to jump in and
- say, "Refinance, now !" By doing your homework and carefully analyzing
- what's available, you can take full advantage of todays low rates.
-
- Should you jump on the bandwagon? How low must rates go before it's time to
- refinance. If you can recoup your costs of refinancing within two years
- and you plan to stay in the property for at least 3 to 4 years more, then
- it's worth refinancing.
-
- There are a number of reasons for refinancing--interest rates are not the
- only thing to look at. If your home has increased in value you could
- refinance to draw out your equity. You may want to lock into lower fixed
- rate mortgages if you now have an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) or a
- higher fixed rate mortgage or you may just want to refinance the present
- mortgage balance at a lower rate.
-
- Mortgages have changed and so have the questions that need to be asked.
- Shopping for a mortgage used to be a relatively simple process; most home
- mortgage loans had interest rates that did not change over the life of the
- loan. Today choosing among the many fixed rate mortgages means comparing
- rates, monthly payment fees prepayment penalties and due-on-sale clauses.
- To fully compare one loan with another, means knowing about indexes,
- margins, discounts, caps, negative amortization, convertibility and
- patience.
-
- Let's look at some examples based on current market rates.
- I gathered this information by calling a variety of Boston banks and
- mortgage companies. I then fed the numbers into the program called
- "Financing Your Property: Is it Right for You?"
-
- Let's say you have a $100,000 mortgage, currently paying 12%, you have made
- payments for 5 years (60 payments at $1028.61 each) based on a 30 year
- amortization table. The payments have been current and the principal
- balance stands at $ 97,663. In this analysis we have used the old mortgage
- balance of $97,663 as the new principal amount and have added points and
- fees to the new principal amount.
-
- Plan A:
- Interest Amortization Points Monthly P & I Total Interest
-
- 8.50% 30 years 2.75% $ 771.59 $ 177,425
-
- It would take 10 to 11 months to payment the refinance expenses.
-
- Plan B:
- Interest Amortization Points Monthly P & I Total Interest
-
- 9.00% 30 years 0.50% $ 789.75 $ 186,158
-
- It would take 2 months to pay off the refinance expenses, but the total
- interest charges over the life of the loan are nearly $10,000 higher that
- Plan a:
-
- Plan C:
- Interest Amortization Points Monthly P & I Total Interest
-
- 8.125% 15 years 2.00% $ 959.19 $ 73,037
-
- Since the new payment is only $69.43 lower than what you presently are
- paying, it would take about 28 months to pay off the refinance expenses.
- However, the total interest on the 15 year loan is only $73,037. The
- monthly payments are similar to the previous. With the 15-year schedule
- you would save anywhere from $100,000 to $200,000 in interest.
-
- Although tax deductions you receive for mortgage interest play an important
- role in your decision recent tax changes have diminished their effect.
- Mortgage interest deductions is only viable if the total deductions are
- higher than your standard deduction. Again you have many options, but if
- your adjusted gross income is below $100,000 and your other itemized
- deductions exceed your standard deduction, you can estimate your tax
- savings by multiplying your mortgage interest by your marginal tax rate.
- You may want to seek the expert advise of your tax advisor or financial
- consultant.
-
- Your options are unlimited. Shop carefully and completely, know all the
- expenses and use specializes financial programs to create the correct
- numbers. Your time and expense will be worth it.
-
- ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Program Features │
- └──────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- » Calculate up to 5 mortgages at one time.
- » handles fixed rate and adjustable rate mortgages
- » handles different amortizations and length of loan
- » 360 or 365 Days per year
- » balloon payment at a specific time
- » Calculate future value of home
- » Display tax benefit per mortgage
- » Display value of downpayment if left in another investment
- » File can be saved to disk and recalled at anytime.
- » F1 key for context sensitive help message
- » Print either on a dot matrix or HP laser (compatible)
- » Track loan payments and maintain loan balance.
- » Compare bank loan balance to your records at any time.
- » Input what you can afford per month, amortization and an interest rate
- and the program will tell you what you can borrow.
- » Pull Down menus
- » Fully windows compatible
- » Prints Schedules both monthly and yearly.
-
-
- The Ansin Group, Inc owns and retains all copyright, trade secret
- and other proprietary rights in the licensed software.
-
-
- System Requirements
-
- IBM PC or compatible, with 640K RAM and DOS 2.1 or higher. It is available
- on both 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" disk format. To display and print graphs a
- graphics card is required.
-
-
- Customer Technical Support
-
- The Ansin Group believes the products that we sell are the finest of their
- kind available and are shipped without errors or "bugs". We are, however,
- human. Therefore we provide technical support through telephone, FAX and
- mail. Before contacting us, please gather the following information:
-
- 1: Serial/Version number of the product in question.
-
- 2: Type of computer you are using. IBM-XT, AT, 386, etc.
-
- 3: How much memory you have (conventional/extended/expanded)
- 512K, 640K, 1meg, etc.
-
- 4: Do you have expanded (EMS/LIM) memory?
- How much ? 1,2,3 megs.
-
- 5: In addition it usually is helpful to have a printout of both your
- autoexec.bat and config.sys files. This will tell us what drivers,
- TRS, etc you may have loaded at runtime.
-
- 6: What type of memory manager are you running?
-
- This may sound like a lot of information, but having it on-hand can save
- both you and customer support a lot of time.
-
- ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ O R D E R F O R M │
- └──────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- A SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE of $99.50 for FINANCING YOUR
- HOME is available until June 1, 1992.
-
- After June 1, 1992 Financing Your Home will cost $129.95.
-
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- International Orders -please add $15.00 shipping and
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- Mail completed order form and method of payment to:
-
- The Ansin Group
- 48 Mechanic St
- Newton, MA 02164
- Tel: 617-332-4500
-
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