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Here's
A Way You Can
Save Thousands Of Dollars
In Interest and Pay Your
Mortgage Off Years Sooner!
Most people think when you get a mortgage
you're stuck with it for 30 years, but what they
don't realize is by using a couple of easy
and painless ways to make some extra principle
payments you can cut years off the life of your
mortgage and save thousands of dollars in needless
interest costs.Here are a couple of easy strategies
you can use:
1. Round up to the nearest hundred
This is an easy strategy to take advantage of, and the results are
dramatic!
Let's say you have a mortgage of $100,000 over 30 years at 8% interest.
The monthly payments would be about $734 dollars a month. Now, let's
see what would happen if you rounded that payment to the next $100
by increasing your payment by $66 extra each month.
Just this one simple strategy will save you over $48,000 in interest
payments over the life of your mortgage, but it will also shorten
the length of your mortgage by 7 1/2 years!
2. Use Your Income Tax Refund To Make One Time Pre-Payments
Let's say you have that same
$100,000 mortgage, and you have a $1000 tax refund this year. [very
possible with your new homeowner deductions] If you take that $1000
and apply it to your mortgage...you'll save over $8600 and shorten
your mortgage by 1 year and 1 month! Not bad for a simple one time
pre-payment.
3. Start Out With a 15 Year Mortgage
One of the best things you
can do -- if you can afford it -- is to start out with a 15 year
mortgage instead of 30. It's actually not that much more expensive,
and the interest you save is incredible.
With the same $100,000 mortgage at 8% over 15 years, your payment
would be about $200 more ($955) and you would be paying $72,017
in interest over the life of your mortgage instead of $164,160!
That's worth considering.
To try our online mortgage calculator click
here!
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