"Owning a property is a dream for many people and borrowing from banks is often essential to achieve this. However, having a mortgage can cause real anxiety because of the latent fear of losing our home if we cannot keep up with mortgage payments. Traditionally, homeowners repay their debt over 25 years, but high house prices have made it necessary to increase the term up to 40 years to make monthly payments affordable. Spreading the debt over a longer period of time not only means that borrowers have to pay more interest, but they are also exposed to other risks such as potential interest rate rises and changes in personal circumstances affecting their mortgage eligibility. These can lead to financial worries, financial stress and reduced well-being. There are few practical guides available to show borrowers how to manage their mortgage debt more effectively, and how to repay their mortgage quickly so that they are debt-free. This book seeks to empower consumers, young and old, by providing a roadmap to help borrowers achieve financial security through planning for the future, insuring their income and setting up an emergency fund. It also outlines simple strategies for an early repayment of debt, including paying off the capital, making extra payments and monitoring their mortgage debt. In doing so, it aims to help readers improve their general well-being, enhance their financial security, reduce their financial worries, and eliminate their 'mortgage insomnia'"--

Owning a property is a dream for many people, and borrowing from banks is often essential to achieve this. However, having a mortgage can cause real anxiety because of the latent fear of losing our home if we cannot keep up with mortgage payments. Traditionally, homeowners repay their debt over 25 years, but high house prices have made it necessary to increase the term up to 40 years to make monthly payments affordable. Spreading the debt over a longer period of time not only means that borrowers have to pay more interest, but they are also exposed to other risks such as potential interest rate rises and changes in personal circumstances affecting their mortgage eligibility. These can lead to financial worries, financial stress, and reduced well-being. There are few practical guides available to show borrowers how to manage their mortgage debt more effectively, and how to repay their mortgage quickly so that they are debt-free. This book seeks to empower consumers, young and old, by providing a roadmap to help borrowers achieve financial security through planning for the future, insuring their income, and setting up an emergency fund. It also outlines simple strategies for an early repayment of debt, including paying off the capital, making extra payments, and monitoring their mortgage debt. In doing so, it aims to help readers improve their general well-being, enhance their financial security, reduce their financial worries, and eliminate their ‘mortgage insomnia’.

This book shows borrowers how to manage their mortgage debt and repay it more quickly so that they are debt-free. It seeks to empower consumers, young and old, by providing a roadmap to help borrowers achieve financial security through planning for the future, insuring their income and setting up an emergency fund.

The immense power of compound interest is such that adding a small amount of extra principal to each of your mortgage payments will result in thousands (or tens of thousands) in interest savings over the life of your loan. Using only high-school mathematics, Tim Hill provides clear and readable lessons that you can use to understand and pay down your mortgage by using Microsoft Excel (or any spreadsheet software). This entirely practical guide teaches you how to use worksheet functions, array formulas, data tables, and other spreadsheet features to manage your business and personal finances. You'll also learn the auxiliary skills needed to create and maintain financial spreadsheets: rounding numbers, data and time arithmetic, summing and counting values, and more. Plenty of examples show you how to use these tools for any type of debt or savings: mortgages, student loans, leases, credit-card debt, car payments, medical expenses, annuities, and retirement funds. You can download the sample workbooks to follow along with the author's examples and calculations. - Covers all versions of Excel. - Learn about basic financial concepts, including cash flows, timing issues, and the time value of money. - Compute the payments needed to pay off a loan or to meet an investment target. - Separate the interest and principal portions of your mortgage or loan payments for tax purposes. - Convert between the commonly used methods of quoting interest rates. - Create amortization schedules to see how your debts change over time. - Build summary tables to compare loans that have different interest rates, loan amounts, or payment terms. - Derive the true interest rate of your investments or loans, including "interest-free" loans. - See how much time it will take to pay off a loan, meet an investment target, or retire. - Determine how much to invest now to meet a future goal. - Calculate how money will accumulate in your retirement or savings accounts. Contents Part I - Loans & Mortgages 1. Getting Started with Loans & Mortgages 2. Present Value (PV) 3. Future Value (FV) 4. Payments (PMT) 5. Interest Rates (RATE) 6. Periods (NPER) 7. Interest and Principal Components 8. Converting Interest Rates 9. Loan Amortization Schedules 10. Summarizing Loan Options Part II - Dates & Times 11. Getting Started with Dates & Times 12. Date & Time Basics 13. Date & Time Functions 14. Date Tricks 15. Time Tricks Part III - Sums & Counts 16. Getting Started with Sums & Counts 17. Counting Basics 18. Counting Tricks 19. Frequency Distributions 20. Summing Basics 21. Summing Tricks

What would your life be like if you had no mortgage? How free would you be to live a different life? In this book Clayton and Natali Morris help you beat the system by paying down your home loan and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest payments along the way. This step-by-step system only works with understanding and a disciplined plan. Clayton and Natali give you just that by breaking it all down for you in this book. They arm you with the knowledge and inspiration to free yourself from the dead weight of your mortgage so that you can enjoy your monthly income however the heck you want to! Clayton and Natali Morris met while working as TV news broadcasters. Clayton has been a news anchor for over 15 years and Natali has worked for CBS and NBC for most of her career. In 2010 they started a family and got serious about building legacy wealth for their three children, Miles, Ava, and Eve. They podcast, write, and speak around the world about personal finance and financial empowerment in order to help other families like theirs employ the skills they have learned along the way to attain true financial freedom.

Coleman and his lawyer and co-author chronicle the process to save his home from foreclosure. They capture critical lessons and include strategies that are not well known outside the banking industry.

Would you like to pay your mortgage off faster and have more money to enjoy your life? The &‘ average' Australian mortgage is $601,797 over 30 years. Not only is this large &– more than half a million dollars &– but it' s grown 36% over the past five years.This is daunting. For many people, it can feel like paying it off is impossible. But here' s the good news: it is entirely possible to ditch your mortgage in ten years, and this book shows you how. In How to Pay Your Mortgage Off in 10 Years, bestselling finance author, money coach and podcaster Serina Bird presents practical strategies, calculates the savings and shares the steps she has used &– and anyone can use &– to become mortgage-free. In this life-changing book you' ll learn how to:• Hit your mortgage hard &– and early• Negotiate a lower interest rate• Use micro-habits to make repayments faster• Cut down your spending with frugalista shopping habits• Use your home to generate an income stream• Keep motivated when the going gets tough.Not only that, but you' ll also read about people who are actively smashing their mortgage and achieving their dream goals, showing you just how achievable it is.