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Paying more than the Due


It never seems it will never close out, ever!!! you would know what I am talking about if you have a home loan against your name. The outstanding amount never seems to diminish causing lot of “house induced heartburn”. Please read on, If you can take some head ache along with the burn.
As an example, If you got a home loan of Rs.30 Lakhs at 10% interest for a period of 20 years (EMI of Rs.29,000), the total amount you would have paid at the end of 20 years is Rs 69.5 Lakhs.Yes you read it right …The total amount you would have paid is more than double the loan. This is due to the interest component of the loan.
On the other hand, If you got the same loan of Rs.30 Lakhs at 10% interest for a period of 10 years(EMI of Rs.40000),the total amount you would have paid at the end of 10 years is Rs.47.5 Lakhs. Yes you read it right again…Not only you would have got the home under your name in 10 years but also saved a whopping amount of 22 Lakhs that would have gone in as the Interest to the bank.
So when it comes to big loans such as the Home loan, remember the adage Time is Money. So pay it off as quickly as you can. Following are the tricks to get out of the  “Honey,No money” excuse

 Make repayments at a higher rate:
A good way to get ahead of your mortgage commitments is to pay it off as if you have a higher rate of interest. Get a loan at the lowest interest rate you can and add 2 or 3 points to your repayment amount. So if you have a loan at about 10 percent and pay it off at 12 per cent, you won't even notice if rates go up. Best of all, you'll be paying off your loan quicker and saving yourself a packet.
Redirect all the cash towards the loan:
Be it a small or large, redirect the excess cash that you would have access  towards paying the loan. For the above case study, even an extra payment of Rs.2000 on top of your EMI can save as much as 6 lakhs on your total amount. You may say excess cash is like the desert mirage. Yes,I agree…but if you would forego some minor luxuries of life like not eating  out too often or buying gadgets at will, I bet you would get a decent  access to cash. Think that these were the unwritten clauses you signed for in the home loan  application !!!

As ironic as it may seem, it turns out that only solution to see the debt melt is to find more cash and you needed me to tell that. Sometimes the truth is so simple and yet so harsh. I have got to leave here to see if I can find some cash in the cupboard…