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If there's one thing that has all homeowners united, it's knowing that their first priority is to make the best use of all the financial tools available to build wealth quickly. When you signed off on your mortgage, they probably didn't tell you that by the time you pay it off, you will have paid 2-3 times the actual value of your home! In most cases, this means you'd be spending an extra $200,000.00 to $300,000.00 in unnecessary payments! But That's Not Nearly All... Most folks like you and me have 30 year mortgages, right? So if we make our payments for 30 years, we've paid off the home. Well get this: Most People Never Do That!
Here's
What This Means For You: So, since you stayed in the house and made your payments for 10 years (120 months), that means you made 120 payments at $1580.17 each. So the total amount you paid was $189,620.40. Here's
Where It Gets Serious: Get Ready For A Shock But guess what? You still have 20 years left on your mortgage! Therefore, you still "owe" 240 more payments of $1580.17 each. (A total of $379,240.80 still left to pay!) And I can
hear you now saying, "What about the $189,620.40
I already paid?" "What About The Equity??" That's where it gets ugly... In the typical scenario I just described above -- the one where you paid your mortgage for 10 years and had paid a total of $189,620.40 in mortgage payments -- only 20% of that money would be applied to the principle balance of your home. This means that out of all $189,620.40 you paid, only $38,059.61 of it would actually be applied toward the paying off your house.
But Where
Did The Rest Of Your Money Go? You see ...the other 80% of the money you'd been paying for the past 10 years was PURE INTEREST! And listen. The banks aren't doing anything "shady" or dishonest. This is how mortgages work. It's how the banking industry makes money. Which result do you want?
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