Taking a Mortgage or Planning a Mortgage?

Jasmin Morel
Jasmin Morel
May 19, 2022

A mortgage is usually the largest loan or financial commitment one will take in one’s entire life. Most people don’t realize how financially influential every detail is regarding mortgage decisions, no matter how trivial it may seem today. Most of them will simply try to get what they can, maybe try and negotiate prices, commissions and fees and then elegantly proceed to enthusiastically and successfully convincing themselves they’ve struck the best deal ever!
However, there’s much more to taking a mortgage than that. The decision on how high your loan should be shouldn’t start with what kind of house you’d like to buy, but rather, with realistically answering the question how much free money can you allocate today and in the future for paying your loans, taking into consideration possible fluctuations in interest rates.
When having to face these important and sometimes difficult questions, one of four types of burrowers is usually revealed:
Deep Divers: Those burrowers plunge into taking a mortgage without giving much thought to what’ll happen next month. They usually settle for little and rough calculations and go on believing everything will be just fine.
Deep Pockets: Those burrowers will employ an army of consultants, advisors and financial experts, ending up understanding less than they did at the get go. That of course won’t stop their faithful professional companions from cashing in their generous checks.
In Bank We Trust: Those burrowers will mistakenly put their faith in the bank and its clerks confusing them to put their own interests first instead of those of the bank, thus ensuring that the bank will get whatever it wants but little regard to their actual needs and interests.
Self-Sufficient: Those burrowers are the ones who truly understand the significance of this decision. In order to get to a more learned and suitable conclusion they will take the little time needed to use specifically designed software programs such as Mortgages+, MaxMortgage and others. Using these easy to use yet efficient software programs it’s much more plausible they will achieve the solution that will both allow them to fulfill their dream and buy their own house and keep their financial sanity today and in days to come.