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Summary: Mastering real estate math when buying or selling a house requires understanding amortization tables, prorated taxes and interest on the loan. Take real estate classes or hire a real estate agent to help with the math using tips from a real estate broker in this free video on real estate.
Penny Smith has been in real estate for more than 14 years. She has a degree in architectural design and has received buyer and seller associate training, as well as CMA Training. She...read more
"Hello, my name is Penny Smith, and I'm a North Carolina real estate broker. The topic today is how to master real estate math. Well, that's a pretty big topic. And what I have to say is, I highly recommend that you take the real estate courses in order to master the real estate math. There's a lot to the real estate math, from a HUD that is the final form that has all the numbers on it that an attorney would give you at closing. Knowing how to calculate the numbers on that HUD is very tricky. The amortization tables, to prorating the taxes, prorating the...everything on that house. There's lots of different things that are prorated, whether you go back thirty days or go ahead thirty days, that will be on the HUD. For instance, the interest on the loan. The interest on the loan is prorated thirty days in advance because your payment's not due for thirty days....thirty full days till after you closed on that home. The government has to give you...the institution, the mortgage institution must give you thirty days before they charge you for your first payment, or you're going to pay for that interest of those thirty days. It's not free, you don't get that money for free. But you have to prorate it, and you have to amortize it and put it on the HUD. So I highly recommend that you let a real estate attorney help you with that, and trust that they know what they're doing. They have computer programs that do it for you. And that's my recommendations for how to do real estate math. Thank you."
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