Borrower Question: Interest Only Or Fully Amortizing Loan? - YouTube

Channel: Michael Hausam

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Well hi there, I'm Michel Hausam of The Hausam Group at Vista Pacific Realty.
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So yesterday, literally yesterday, I closed a transaction representing buyers that
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got the type of loan that hasn't been popular in quite a few years; I was
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actually kind of surprised by it, but thinking about it further, I thought it
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would be a really good topic for a video; what they ended up getting was an
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interest-only mortgage; so let's talk about it; the typical mortgage loan
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nowadays has a fully amortized loan payment; that means there are two parts
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to the loan payment; the first part is the interest and the second part is the
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principle reduction; now the term for the typical principal reduction loan is 30
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years, your basic 30-year fixed-rate loan, although sometimes there are 20 year or
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15 year or even 10 year loans that are available; an interest-only loan payment
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has one part - you just pay the interest that's due, so obviously if there's no
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principal portion of the payment, it's just interest; it's a much lower monthly
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payment and that's exactly why these guys made that decision; it was a lower
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monthly payment and what's wrong with that? A lower monthly payment how could
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you go wrong? well let's take a look at their specific situation and the numbers
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that they were looking at and see if we can come up with some of the thinking
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that caused them to make this decision and to see if it might be the right
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decision for you; so for them it was a $750,000 mortgage loan that they were
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looking at; now on a 30-year fixed-rate loan today it's at three and a quarter
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percent; that's a monthly payment of three thousand two hundred and sixty
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four dollars and five cents; now a 10-year interest-only mortgage, meaning
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it's an adjustable that's fixed for the first ten years but the payment is only
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based on the interest, is AT three point six to five percent, which is
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twenty two hundred and sixty-five dollars and 63 cents a month; that's a
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monthly payment difference of nine ninety eight dollars and forty three
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cents; so wait a sec they got a loan there was almost a thousand dollars a
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month less and monthly payment? what is there to think about,
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right? well actually there are three specific things to think about before
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looking at an interest-only mortgage and let's take a look at those three things;
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number one is the interest rates themselves; so first of all an interest
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only loan is considered a non-conforming product whether you're getting a jumbo
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loan size or a standard loan sized they're not very popular, so an
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interest-only loan is always going to have a much higher rate of interest
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regardless of your credit score; so for these guys on their seven hundred and
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fifty thousand dollar mortgage, that was over twenty eight hundred dollars a year
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more an interest that they'd be paying; so that's the first thing to think about;
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the second thing to think about is your loan balance; so obviously if every
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single month a little bit of money goes to principal that is going to have a
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lower balance over time; so I did the math an on a seven hundred and fifty
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thousand dollar loan at three and a quarter percent; amortizing over thirty
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years at the end of five years you'll have paid off almost eighty two thousand
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dollars; all right now the monthly payment was a thousand dollars less
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meaning over five years they would have saved sixty thousand dollars so
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interestingly, the folks that take the fully amortizing loan, sixty thousand
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dollars more in monthly payment ends up to be almost eighty two thousand dollars
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and lower principal balance; meaning twenty two thousand dollars over the
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course of those five years because what happens is on the fully amortizing loan
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you make a payment the balance goes down; you make a payment the balance goes down;
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you make a payment and the balance goes down; so the interest that accrues every
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month is based upon an ever decreasing - I have to think about that for a second - an
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ever-decreasing mortgage loan balance ; so more and
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more and more of your money goes to principal and less and less and less
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goes to interest; on the interest only loan the mortgage balance stays the same,
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so the interest stays the same, so that's almost twenty-one thousand dollars more
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in equity on top of the sixty thousand dollars of equity; so mortgage loan
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balance over time is another thing that you have to think about; the third thing
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to consider are the loan qualifications; interestingly for the typical
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interest-only loan, the rate and payment at which you qualify is actually much
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higher than on a standard 30-year fixed-rate loan, so there could be
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circumstances where somebody using these same numbers they could actually qualify
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and get an approved for a three and a quarter percent seven hundred and fifty
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thousand dollar mortgage, but they actually wouldn't get qualified for the
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one thousand dollar-a-month lower monthly payment; so you've got to think
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about the qualifications; they're actually tougher to get; so all in, what's
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the better way to go? if you're just focusing on monthly payment and nothing
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else, it's obvious: the interest only loan is the better way to go; but soon as
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you add in the annual interest charges, the principal reduction over time, and
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whether or not you can even get that loan, the decision becomes far less clear;
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generally speaking; if you're going to be in a house two or three years - no more
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than that - the interest only loan might be the better way to go; but if you're
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gonna be in a house for five six or longer years, absolutely no question
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about it, the 30-year fixed-rate loan or a shorter term is the better way to go;
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now if you've got other mortgage questions I'd be happy to answer them;
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you can contact me; also if you're interested in talking about selling your
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home or buying a home, I have a very specific system that I use for each of
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those scenarios as well; You can call me my number's 949.413.23
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71. You you can also email me - [email protected]. Thanks so
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much and have a great day!