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Points Explained |
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What are mortgage points and when, if ever, does it make sense to pay them? |
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Fees Explained |
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What are the 'real' costs of my California Mortgage? This will help explain exactly where your money is going - and where it shouldn't be going...
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Biweekly Mortgage Program
A Biweekly Mortgage is a loan payment plan where borrowers make payments to principal &
interest every 2 weeks rather than once monthly. The Biweekly payment is half of the amount
a monthly payment would be. The savings a Biweekly Mortgage payment plan can create are
often substantial though the numbers often mislead borrowers. A thirty-year loan of
$200,000 at 6.5% will have a monthly payment of $1,264.14. When this loan is converted to a
Biweekly loan payment plan, the payment will be $632.07 paid every 2 weeks. Paying the loan
this way will result in the loan being paid off almost six years earlier & it will result in
a total savings of $58,747.11. The key to a Biweekly loan plan is that rather than making
twelve full payments through out the year, you will make twenty-six half payments or thirteen
full payments each year. This is because there are twenty-six two-week periods each year. On
account of this some months require three payments or one and a half standard payments. Many
experts maintain that keeping an existing monthly payment mortgage and making an extra
payment each year will produce the same savings as a Biweekly loan payment plan would.
They also maintain that many loan companies charge rather substantial service fees to convert
a loan to a Biweekly plan.
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