Use this calculator to determine your payments, and to prepare a full payment schedule for the length
of the amortization period.
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Note: Some things you should note about mortgages and their payment cycles. |
- If you are making, weekly, bi-weekly, or bi-monthly payments make sure that your lender
is applying these payments to your account. Some lenders, while advertising bi-weekly payments
may only apply them at the end of the month. If your lender does not apply your payments
when they receive them, you may be effectively making monthly payments and are not receiving
the benefits of paying more often. Check with your lender!
- Studies in the U.S. have shown that the average person moves every seven years. If you have
a long amortization period, with lower frequency payments, you pay a much larger portion of the
interest up-front (see the resulting tables in your calculations.
If you move frequently, you may not be "getting ahead" and are spending
most of your money paying interest - pay down your principle amount ASAP. To see how
big an effect your amortization period has on your mortgage, see our
amortization comparer