Math 1030

Name Keaten McDonald

Buying a House

Select a house from a real estate booklet, newspaper, or website. Find something reasonable
between $100,000 and $350,000. In reality, a trained financial professional can help you
determine what is reasonable for your financial situation. Take a screen shot of the listing for
your chosen house and attach it to this project. Assume that you will pay the asking price for
your house.

The listed selling price is $319,900.

Assume that you will make a down payment of 20%.

The down payment is $63,980. The amount of the mortgage is $255,920.

Ask at least two lending institutions for the interest rate for both a 15-year and a 30-year fixed
rate mortgage with no points or other variations on the interest rate for the loan.

Name of first lending institution: Wells Fargo.

Rate for 15-year mortgage: 3.375%. Rate for 30-year mortgage 4.000%.

Name of second lending institution: US Bank.

Rate for 15-year mortgage: 3.250%. Rate for 30-year mortgage 3.875%.

Assuming that the rates are the only difference between the different lending institutions, find the
monthly payment at the better interest rate for each type of mortgage.

15-year monthly payment: $1,798. 30-year monthly payment $1,203.

These payments cover only the interest and the principal on the loan. They do not cover the
insurance or taxes.

To organize the information for the amortization of the loan, construct a schedule that keeps
track of: (1) the payment number and/or (2) the month and year (3) the amount of the payment,
(4) the amount of interest paid, (5) the amount of principal paid, and (6) the remaining balance.
There is a Loan Amortization schedule in CANVAS.

Its not necessary to show all of the payments in the tables below. Only fill in the payments in
the following schedules. Answer the questions after each table.
15-year mortgage

Payment Payment Payment Interest Principal Remaining

Number Date Amount ($) Paid ($) Paid ($) Balance ($)
1. . 11/22/17 $1,798.27 $693.12 $1,105.15 $254,814.85
2. . 12/22/17 $1,798.27 $690.12 $1,108.15 $253,706.70
50. . 12/22/21 $1,798.27 $536.50 $1,261.77 $196,831.69
90. . 04/22/25 $1,798.27 $392.34 $1,405.93 $143,457.60
120. . 10/22/27 $1,798.27 $273.51 $1,524.76 $99,461.82
150. . 04/22/30 $1,798.27 $144.63 $1,653.64 $51,747.39
180. . 10/22/32 $1,798.27 $4.86 $1,788.56 $0.00. .
total ------- ---------

Use the proper word or phrase to fill in the blanks.

The total principal paid is the same as the mortgage loan.
The total amount paid is the number of payments times Payment Amount.
The total interest paid is the total amount paid minus the total Principal Paid.

Use the proper number to fill in the blanks and cross out the improper word
in the parentheses.
Payment number 1 is the first one in which the principal paid is greater than the interest
paid.

The total amount of interest is $188,151.42 (more or less) than the mortgage.

The total amount of interest is 26.5% (more or less) than the mortgage.

The total amount of interest is 73.5% of the mortgage.

30-year mortgage

Payment Payment Payment Interest Principal Remaining

Number Date Amount ($) Paid ($) Paid ($) Balance ($)
1. . 11/22/17 $1,203.43 $826.41 $377.02 $255,542.98
2. . 12/22/17 $1,203.43 $825.19 $378.24 $255,164.74
60. . 10/22/22 $1,203.43 $747.42 $456.01 $231,002.78
120. . 10/22/27 $1,203.43 $650.10 $553.33 $200,767.88
240. . 10/22/37 $1,203.43 $388.72 $814.71 $119,563.37
300. . 10/22/42 $1,203.43 $214.85 $988.58 $65,545.74
360. . 10/22/47 $1,203.43 $3.87 $1,195.68 $0.00. .
total ------- ---------

Payment number 147 is the first one in which the principal paid is greater than the interest paid.
The total amount of interest is $78,604.93 (more or less) than the mortgage.

The total amount of interest is 30.7% (more or less) than the mortgage.

The total amount of interest is 69.3% of the mortgage.

Suppose you paid an additional $100 a month towards the principal

The total amount of interest paid with the $100 monthly extra payment would be
$177,315.07.

The total amount of interest paid with the $100 monthly extra payment would be
$26,841.34 (more or less) than the interest paid for the scheduled payments only.

The total amount of interest paid with the $100 monthly extra payment would be 15% (more
or less) than the interest paid for the scheduled payments only.

The $100 monthly extra payment would pay off the mortgage in 25 years and 11 months;
thats 4 months sooner than paying only the scheduled payments.
Summarize what you have done and learned on this project. Because this is a math project, you
must compute and compare numbers, both absolute and relative values, that havent been
compared above. Statements such as a lot more and a lot less do not have meaning in a
Quantitative Reasoning class. Make the necessary computations and compare (1) the 15-year
mortgage payment to the 30-year mortgage payment, (2) the 15-year mortgage interest to the 30-
year mortgage interest, (3) the 15-year mortgage to the 30-year mortgage with an extra payment,
and (4) the 15-year mortgage to the 30-year mortgage with a large enough extra payments to
save 15 years and have the loan paid off in 15 years. Also, keep in mind that the numbers dont
explain everything. Comment on other factors that must be considered with the numbers when
making a mortgage.

Your submission must be in pdf format. Refer to the assignment rubric to see how you'll be
graded.

Different people need different monthly mortgage payment. If possible, I would highly
suggest doing a 15-year mortgage, because in this case the monthly payment is only $595 more
than the 30-year mortgage. That cuts the number of payments in half.

Again that 15-year mortgage is the way to go. There is $109,546.48 difference between
the 30 year and 15-year mortgage interest. There are consequences with wanting a lower
monthly payment, and one consequence is paying more in interest over the life of the loan.

A 15-year mortgage payment with an extra $100 each month would only bring your total
interest down $4,813.44, and from an original 180 payments to 168 payments. A 30-year
mortgage payment with an extra $100 each month would decrease your total interest payment by
$26,841.33. It does only bring the total payments down to 312 instead of 360.

In order to pay off a 30-year mortgage loan in 15 years, $675 would need to be paid on
top of the monthly payment of $1,203.43