Tools

Three calculators that show their working

Not a lead-capture form disguised as a tool. Nothing here asks for your email, and every figure is explained rather than produced.

Email required
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Credit pull
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Figures
Sample, for illustration

The calculators

  • Tool 01

    Closing costs against the monthly saving, with the fresh 30-year loan and a term-preserving option side by side, and the lifetime interest change on both.

    • The month you turn positive
    • Whether the term is doing the work
    • What lender credits do to the break-even

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  • Tool 02

    Form 1084 style add-backs from Schedule C: depreciation, business use of home and the non-deductible meals subtraction, then two-year averaging with the declining-income rule applied.

    • Your qualifying monthly income
    • What the add-backs are worth
    • Whether averaging applies at all

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  • Tool 03

    Full principal, interest, taxes, insurance, HOA and mortgage insurance, plus the scheduled month the balance reaches 80% and 78% of the original value.

    • The real monthly number
    • When you may request PMI cancellation
    • When the servicer must remove it

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How to read a result

Four things a calculator cannot know

  • Your actual price adjustments

    Credit score band, loan-to-value, occupancy, property type and cash-out status each move your rate. A calculator assumes a rate; the price sheet decides it.

  • Whether you qualify at all

    Debt-to-income, reserves, employment history and the automated underwriting finding sit outside every calculator on the internet, including these three.

  • Your escrow, precisely

    Virginia property tax varies by locality and by assessment. Insurance depends on the roof, the claims history and the deductible. Both are estimates until quoted.

  • How long you will keep the loan

    Every break-even figure is an answer to a question only you can supply. Most people do not hold a thirty-year mortgage for thirty years.

Run it with me instead

Twenty-five minutes, your real numbers, and a written comparison of at least three wholesale quotes on the same day's pricing.

Three wholesale quotes on the same day's pricing, before you choose.

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