See: Mortgage.
You want to buy a $650,000 house. You put $150,000 down and get a 30-year mortgage for the remaining $500,000 at 6% fixed interest rate. Your mortgage payment equals $3,889 for each of the next 360 months.
The mortgage constant lets you know the amount of debt service you pay on an annual basis as a percentage of the total amount you've borrowed. Another way to put it: how much are you paying per year for each dollar that you've borrowed?
So, in your case, you've got a monthly payment of $3,889. Multiply that by 12 and you've got $46,668...that's your annual debt service payment. Divide that by $500,000 (the amount of money you've borrowed). Your mortgage constant equals 0.093336...or 9.3336%.
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Finance: What is a second mortgage?4 Views
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know what a first mortgages it's otherwise cleverly named what
is called it is called oh yeah Mortgage it's Just
a loan on a house You paid four hundred grand
for this baby Hundred grand down two hundred fifty grand
in a first mortgage And they're still fifty grand You
owe well where's that fifty large coming from the bank
wouldn't loan you any more on a first mortgage that
was costing you six percent a year Tio you know
to rent that money So you had to get a
second mortgage which should things go awry and you become
a statistic Well that's it's fully behind the first mortgage
in the priority stack of payback So in a bankruptcy
situation the first mortgage first what's called a first mortgage
get it fully paid along with any fees associated with
it and back interest accrued and any other things that
are associated with that first mortgage it stands in line
first in priority Then any cash leftover gets attributed to
that second mortgage So not surprisingly second mortgage money costs
a lot more to rent then first mortgage money because
the risk of non payment in a bad situation is
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