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Originally Posted by maat55
The idea is to buy a house that you would have the same payment as if you had a 30.
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That is certainly different. I was curious how that would play out so I just ran some numbers as if we were about to buy the house we live in.
House value is 300K
20% downpayment is 60K
Mortgage needed is 240K
30 years at 5.6% is $1,377/month
15 years at 5.1% is $1,910/month, a difference of $533.
If we wanted to buy a house with the same payment for 15 years as this house would cost for 30 years, we could only borrow 174K, so with a 20% downpayment, that would mean we could buy a house costing $217,500.
That sounds very nice but you would have a very tough time finding a decent house around here for $217,000.