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Summary: When calculating an interest-only mortgage, figure out the loan amount, the interest rate and the term on the loan. Do simple calculations to figure out an interest-only mortgage with tips from a financial consultant in this free video on personal finance and loans.
Carrie Kukuda has a business administration degree, and was branch manager of a community bank. Kukuda owns a consulting business for one-on-one credit education & budget/debt...read more
"Thinking about an interest only mortgage. Hi I am Carrie Kukuda of the Some Day Coach. I'm going to tell you how to calculate an interest only mortgage. First you are going to need some information to gather up and that information is as simple as your interest rates, your loan amount and what is the term on your loan. You also have to figure that because it is an interest only loan whether you are going to do a three year, a five year, a seven year or a ten year is your typical ones you will find and what that means is for three years to five years to seven years or ten years you are going to have only an interest only payment so you need to make only the interest only payment and then the principal will pick up after those years are done. How to calculate that just to give you a little example of how to calculate that for yourself is say we have a loan of $100,000 and an interest rate of five. You are going to take that $100,000 and you are going to times it by your interest rate so it would be 100 times .05 which equals $5,000 and that is how much you'll pay for that annual interest only loan for the full year. The way to calculate for the month is to divide it by 12 months which is a year. That will give you $416.67. It's that simple. So just a little calculation for you and again I'm Carrie and thank you."
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