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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:15 am    Post subject: How to calculate a mortgage payment for a house?
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How to calculate a mortgage payment for a house?
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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:55 am    Post subject:
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Hi Archie,

Do you want to know if your income is sufficient enough to help you afford the mortgage payments? If you want to figure that out, you can use the how much mortgage can I afford calculator.

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Jerry
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For calculating a mortgage payment for a fixed rate loan you will need to know following things-
1) Home loan amount and term.
2) The interest rate.
3) The yearly taxes.
4) Any PMI.
5) Homeowner's insurance in the least.

Input these figures into a mortgage payment calculator. The web provides free useful tools for a good estimation of house payments.

Mortgage loans payment calculation can vary depending on the type of your mortgage.As per type of loan calulation changes.

Adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) have more features than the standard 30-year fixed rate mortgage (FRM) and there will be various ARM calculators.
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Post Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:57 am    Post subject:
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PITI means Principal, Interest, Taxes and Insurance. It is monthly mortgage payment that required to pay on mortgage.

To calculate principal and interest you need-

1) Home loan term.
2) Amount.
3) Rate.

To arrive at complete calculation of mortgage payments, consider the following:

1) Depending on your down payment you may or may not be required to pay for private mortgage insurance.

2) Property taxes will differ by area. Homeowner's insurance amount depends on the coverage. When you know the yearly amounts of property taxes and homeowner's insurance, divide them by 12 and add them to the PI payment. Those can be escrowed, or you could pay them with the mortgage payment.
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Post Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:05 am    Post subject:
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http://www.mortgagefit.com/calculators/simple.html

see the right hand colum for this calculator and others. this will calculate what anyone would want.

these generic questions from supposed "wondering" individuals are really becoming tedious. virtually all of their queries have been answered previously and quite well.

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Post Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:00 am    Post subject:
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you can follow these steps:

Step 1:Calculate the monthly interest/principal payment based on the amount of the mortgage, the term of the mortgage and the interest rate.

Step 2:Determine how much the annual property taxes are on the home, and divide this number by the number of mortgage payments

Step 3:Determine how much your homeowner's insurance will cost annually and divide by the number of mortgage payments

Step 4:Figure in PMI if you are required to pay it.

Step 5:Add these items - the calculated monthly interest/principal payment, insurance, taxes and PMI - together to determine your actual mortgage payment.
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Post Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:52 am    Post subject:
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adrianlee, steps 2 and 3 are incorrect. annual taxes and homeowner's insurance premiums need to be divided by 12 to determine how much they contribute to the overall monthly payment.

and i agree that pmi needs to be factored in, but in these times, it's virtually impossible to know what the premium will be, because everything is score-based (and that's only if you can find an mi company to issue insurance).

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