I was trying to forecast a mortgage payment today and reached for one of my interest amortization books. You may remember those old books we used to use pre-internet.They are full of tables that let you calculate your payment amortized over any given number of years and at various interest rates.
I usually find a payment on $100,000 at some rate say, 6.5% for 30 years and then multiply that by 5 or 6 or whatever to get the rate for a several hundred thousand dollar property.
Couldn't find the $100,000 rate. Kept thinking I was missing it and went back and forth in the pages until I realized the book only went to $20,000.
So I looked at the copyright date. 1952. So in 1952 the highest number in the book was $20,000. And the only rates of interest went from 5% to only 10% in 1/4 increments.
I then looked at my other amortization book from 1976. Price tops at $100,000 in this one and interest rates go all the way from 5% to 25.75%
How times change. I guess they don't even print the books anymore.
boont
I usually find a payment on $100,000 at some rate say, 6.5% for 30 years and then multiply that by 5 or 6 or whatever to get the rate for a several hundred thousand dollar property.
Couldn't find the $100,000 rate. Kept thinking I was missing it and went back and forth in the pages until I realized the book only went to $20,000.
So I looked at the copyright date. 1952. So in 1952 the highest number in the book was $20,000. And the only rates of interest went from 5% to only 10% in 1/4 increments.
I then looked at my other amortization book from 1976. Price tops at $100,000 in this one and interest rates go all the way from 5% to 25.75%
How times change. I guess they don't even print the books anymore.
boont