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anyone do bi-weekly mortgage pymts to pay 1 extra note/yr?

If you do this, is there a charge for it?  I've had many friends have their bank offer this and there was always a fee to do it.  I guess a mere fee is worth shaving 5-7 years off your loan, but just wondering if there is a way to set this up without being charged.

Re: anyone do bi-weekly mortgage pymts to pay 1 extra note/yr?

  • Our mortgage is with Wells Fargo and we do biweekly payments so we end up making a 13th payment each year. They do not charge a fee.

  • Mine is with Wells Fargo as well, so I will check that out tomorrow.  Thanks!!
  • If there is a charge, just take your payment amount and divide by 12.  Add that to you payment, and after 12 months you make an extra payment.

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  • I don't use my banks program.  There's an enrolment fee and a per payment fee.

    There's two other ways you can do this.

    1) Make one extra payment every year.

    2) Add 1/12 of the amount to each and every payment you send in.

    Both of these will accomplish the same goal.  #2 should accomplish it a little sooner than #1 as you're bringing the principal down constantly, not just once a year.

    You could also make extra payments twice a year, or quarterly, or every other month.  Whatever works for you.

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  • We did this before we refinanced and there was no fee.  We're also allowed to pay extra towards our principal at any time.
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  • We do this. There isn't a fee. We'll save $80k by doing it.

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  • We have an account with SunTrust and they offer this for free. We bought a home that is way at the bottom of our price range though, so our monthly payments are about half of what we used to pay in rent. For us, it works better to add another couple hundred dollars to each mortgage payment, instead of paying bi-weekly. We calculated it out with the bank and if we continue what we're doing, we'll shave off about 12 years off our loan.
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  • We've done extra payments once a year, and we were never charged.  Our mortgage is with our local bank.

     

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