• Secrets of Buying Down Mortgage Interest Rates

  • May 9 2025
  • Durée: 1 h et 9 min
  • Podcast

Secrets of Buying Down Mortgage Interest Rates

  • Résumé

  • Learn the secrets of improving cash flow by buying down your mortgage interest rates on rental properties in Providence.

    This class is Module 34 of 46 in a series called Real Estate Investing Secrets.

    Topics covered in this module include:

    • How improving cash flow by buying down your mortgage interest can help you get to financial independence faster and with less risk
    • One way of calculating the benefit of buying down your mortgage interest rate and a better, more sophisticated metric I’d probably use
    • We’re focusing on buying down mortgage interest rates when buying a property, but similar math could be applied when doing cash out refinances, cash in refinances, rate and term refinances or recasting a mortgage
    • The big picture: buying down mortgage rates and receiving credits for taking higher rates
    • How long does the mortgage buy down last
    • What’s a point and how to calculate them
    • Can I use credits to fund my down payment
    • What is par rate and how to get par rate when talking to lenders
    • Your options if you find yourself with extra money after your minimum total cost to acquire a property (down payment, reserves, closing costs, rent ready costs, cumulative negative cash flow/deferred down payment, etc)
    • Comparing putting more down versus buying down your mortgage interest rate
    • A sample mortgage buy down table from a lender and how to read it
    • Downloadable spreadsheet for analyzing mortgage buy downs
    • How to use the spreadsheet
    • What are vanity rates and how to deal with them
    • Using the spreadsheet to take advantage of market inefficiencies
    • Use the spreadsheet to automatically calculate simple and compound rates of return for various mortgage buy downs
    • Comparing the return in dollars for putting more down or buying down mortgage interest rates
    • Including improved equity growth in our comparisons
    • When you should not buy down your mortgage
    • How to determine if you should buy down your mortgage interest rate or pre-pay PMI instead
    • Plus much more...

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