What exactly is a Home Equity Line of Credit?

A home equity loan is a second mortgage on your home. Home equity loans are a very powerful tax-deductible financial tool. Since home equity credit is a type of mortgage, it shares lower interest rates and the tax advantages of mortgages. You can borrow up to $100,000 of your available home equity for virtually any purpose, and, in most cases, 100% of the interest paid each year is tax deductible.

When to apply for a home equity loan?

A home equity loan is a serious move because it is a second mortgage on your home. If you are seeking to pay off credit card bills, car payments, or college tuitions, you have good reasons to seek a home equity loan.

The best part about equity loans is that you can now borrow up to 100% of your home’s equity and, in some situations, up to 125%. In the past, equity loans were usually limited to a total combined Loan-to-Value (LTV) ratio of 80%. For example, if your home was worth $100,000, the combined total of the first mortgage and the home equity loan (second mortgage) could not exceed 80% of that value, or $80,000. If the balance on the first mortgage was $60,000, you could borrow up to $20,000 on a home equity loan.

Use our home equity calculator to figure out your payment options.

Amortization Schedule Table Calculator

Amortization Schedule & Chart – Use Amortization Calculator

Amortization chart is a table which provides details about all payments of an amortization loan in chronological order. It gives information about your interest, principal and balance amount at once.
Amortization is the process of paying off a debt raised out of a loan or a mortgage over a period of time through making regular monthly or annual payments. Amortization chart also known as an amortization schedule which is basically a table which gives you detailed information about your monthly payments on an amortization loan.  Every loan includes two parts, one is your principal amount and other is your interest. So amortization amount shows how much of your monthly payment will go to interest and how much towards your principal amount.

Amortization Calculator is Available Free Online

There are many websites which provide free amortization calculator to draw your amortization schedule with full details about each periodic payment on an amortizing loan. The amortization schedule provides all payments information in chronological order and payments period starts after the loan was taken out. The first payment shown by the amortization schedule is assumed to take place at the start of payment period and the last payment in the amortization schedule at the closing of your payment period which completely pays of the reminder of the loan. It may be different from your all earlier payments.
Initially, a large portion of each payment is devoted to interest. As the loan matures, larger portions go towards paying down the principal, monthly payment is fixed and the amount of money paid to interest varies each month. It is important to note that all calculations done by heloc calculator do not include any additional costs such as closing costs, property taxes, or mortgage insurance.

Mortgage Qualification Calculator – Latest Addition

We just added our latest version 2 of the mortgage qualification calculator. This calculator will help you to determine how much house you can afford and/or qualify for.

Before using this calculator, you must first gather your numbers. Instructions are given to the right of each field.

Gross annual income:
Monthly debt payments:
Down payment:
Annual interest rate:
Monthly Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI %):
Monthly insurance:
Monthly property tax:
Length of the mortgage:
Maximum mortgage payment to income ratio (%):
Maximum debt payments to income ratio (%):
Down payment:
Loan Amount:
Home Price:
Monthly Payment:

Free Desktop Mortgage Calculator

As requested, we have added a free mortgage calculator for your desktop. When you are offline or on the road with a client and have no internet connection, simply open up this program on your laptop and input the data for a quick calculation. The calculator is free to download. Simply choose either the mortgage calculator in .exe format or if you are tech savvy, download the zip file and unzip it to your designated folder.

Instructions are easy. Simply enter your payments per year which is normally 12 unless you are biweekly, the loan amount, interest rate (check the latest rate here), or number of payments. If you don’t have all the information, click on the find button to determine the proper calculation.

You can also print out a full amortization schedule after entering all your information.. Enjoy!