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  Scott  Rheinhart
Wintrust Mortgage
601 Carlson Parkway
Suite 1550
Minnetonka
MN
55305
612-281-9990
srheinhart@wintrustmortgage.com
scott.rheinhart@gmail.com
 

Debt Consolidation Analysis and Calculator
Use this calculator to determine if there is benefit to combining your mortgage and other debts into one loan
 
Enter the loan amounts, rate and terms for your existing mortgage loans and debts:    
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Enter the New Loan Terms Loan Amount Rate Term Payment Yearly Interest
 
 
Your monthly payment savings equals  
 
Your annual interest savings equals
 
What's important to acknowledge is that some of your existing debts may have repayment terms that are often much shorter than what a new mortgage loan would be. However, as long as the interest rate is lower, the benefit is still there so long as you do the right thing with the savings and avoid incurring the same debt all over again.

The smart thing to do is to invest your savings and if you're unsure where to do that, you can always use it as a pre-payment against the principal of your new loan. Review this next section below to see what happens when you do:
 
Make the same total payment you are now against the new loan  
 
Your entire loan and current debts would be paid off in years  
 
Using this plan, your total loan payments over the shortened loan term would be
 
If you made just the regular payments on the new loan, the total would be
 
Total payment savings by using your savings as a pre-payment against principal =
 
Debt Consolidation can make a lot of sense yet it needs to be pursued with proper counseling and guidance. Clearly, it's more rewarding if discipline and the proper strategy are used and I'm always here to assist you with both.


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