This JavaScript calculator will help you to
decide whether or not you should refinance your current mortgage at a lower interest rate.
Not only will this calculator calculate the monthly payment and net interest savings, but
it will also calculate how many months it will take to break even on the closing costs.
Enter the principal balance of your mortgage: (call your mortgage lender and ask
for the current payoff amount)
Enter the amount of your monthly mortgage payment: (principal and interest portion only)
Enter the your mortgage's current interest rate:
Enter interest rate you will be refinancing at:
Enter the number of years you will be refinancing for:
Enter the closing costs that will be required for refinancing:
This is how much your monthly payment will be if you refinance:
Monthly Savings:
Number of months to break even on closing costs:
This is how much interest you will pay under your current monthly payment plan:
This is how much interest you will pay under your refinanced monthly payment plan:
This is how much interest you will save if you refinance:
Net Refinancing Savings (interest savings less closing costs):
When buying a car most people fail to consider
ALL of the expenses that will be generated by their purchase. And because nearly all car
buying scenarios come with different variables (depreciation rates, interest rates,
purchase prices, insurance costs, mpg ratings, etc.), it becomes extremely difficult to
compare one buying scenario with another...until now that is. This calculator will not
only help you to forecast the REAL COST of buying and owning a car, but it will also help
you to more accurately compare the real cost of one car buying scenario with the real cost
of a second car buying scenario.
Instructions: Shortcut: Fill in all the blanks in the Scenario #1 column and then
click on
"Compute Purchase & Ownership Costs." This will automatically
copy Scenario #1 values into the Scenario #2 column.
Description
Car Buying Scenario #1
Car Buying Scenario #2
Enter the total price of the car, including options:
Enter the applicable sales-tax percentage:
Enter the annual cost of licensing this vehicle:
Enter the cost of the extended warranty, if applicable:
Will you be financing this vehicle? ("y" or "n"):
Enter the amount of your down-payment:
Enter the financing rate (Annual Percentage Rate):
Enter the number of months financed:
Enter annual insurance premium:
Enter the number of miles you expect to drive this car per year:
Enter the vehicle's estimated Miles Per Gallon rating:
Enter the local cost of one gallon of gasoline:
How many years old is the car?:
How many years do you expect to own this car?:
Enter an estimated monthly maintenance and repair cost:
This calculator will show you how much you will
save if you make 1/2 of your mortgage payment every two weeks instead of making a full
mortgage payment once a month. In effect, you will be making one extra mortgage payment
per year--without hardly noticing the additional cash outflow. But, as your about to
discover, you will certainly notice the increased cash flow that will occur when you pay
your mortgage off way ahead of schedule!
Enter the principal balance of your mortgage
(call your mortgage lender and ask
for the current payoff amount):
Enter the amount of your monthly mortgage payment:
(principal and interest portion only):
Enter the your mortgage's current interest rate:
This is how much interest you will pay under your current monthly payment plan:
This is how much interest you will pay if you switch to a bi-weekly mortgage
payment plan:
This calculator will show you how much interest you will end
up paying if you make only the minimum required payment on your credit card bill. It will
also tell you how many minimum payments you will make before your balance is paid off (up
to a maximum of 600 payments).
Instructions: Somewhere in your credit card disclosure statement the card company will
tell you something like "your minimum payment will be 2% of the balance or $10,
whichever is higher. These are the figures you will enter in Column C and Column D
respectively.