1/25/2013

Mortgage Pre-Payments

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Jordan and I secured our mortgage just prior to the Canadian Governments move last year to reduce the maximum mortgage amortization from 30 to 25 years.  While right from the beginning, we knew we wanted to pay it off faster - the flexibility of a 30 year amortization meant we could adjust our payments to reflect our life circumstances higher or lower (within the confines of the mortgage agreement).

Our total mortgage financed was  $348,818.31 - monthly payments based on a 30 year structure, (5 year fixed) at 3.39% would have been $1,540.44 - our minimum.

Most of you know, that we chose the accelerated weekly option - $385.11/week.  Four months out of the year, there is a fifth week which reduced our amortization, and interest costs significantly.

Our 2013 plan is to finish our back yard and our 2014 plan is to pay off our car - but with all my posts lately about saving money, I couldn't help but look into the future about the impact of adjusting our weekly mortgage payments.

The calculator on my mortgage holder's website lets me review four different scenario's at one time.

The first - just by increasing our weekly  payments by $9.89/week - would shave another two years off of our amortization schedule.  $10 = 2 Years!


Going further you can see that by maximizing our pre-payment schedule, we could increase our payments by as much as $55.77/week to reduce our amortization to just under 17 years.  Jordan and I would be 45 years old!  Wowza!

While I don't think we're ready to come up with the extra funds before the escape is paid off (it's at a higher interest rate anyways) - I know that within the next 3-5 years, we're going to be able to make some serious changes to our mortgage and be mortgage free before we're 50!  Incredible!

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5 comments:

  1. jane savers at the money puzzle25 January 2013 at 09:02

    Best looking site I have seen in a while.

    You are so much more together than me from the blogging point of view. I am almost computer illiterate and just getting the occasional photo that I plucked from Google to my blog is a major accomplishment for me.

    I covet the right hand side of your blog.

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    1. Jessie25 January 2013 at 09:07

      Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment Jane! My effort in blogging comes and goes - but I've been pretty steady over the last three years. I actually self tough/relied on google to figure out how to write the html code for the tracking bars and what not.

      Here's a 'how to' post I did on them:
      http://jessiesmoney.blogspot.ca/2009/12/how-to-tracking-bars.html

      If there's anything I can help with, just let me know :)

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  2. Morgaine25 January 2013 at 10:04

    Mortgage free at under 50 would be an amazing accomplishment! Keep up the good work :)

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  3. Mom26 January 2013 at 07:55

    You wouldn't even miss $9.89

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  4. Nd.chic26 January 2013 at 19:15

    It makes a huge difference to just pay a little bit more. However, you could put that money in an investment account, too.

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