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Privilege Payments
It's Your Privilege...
Take advantage of your mortgage options
At MCAP, you can pay
up to 20% of the original amount of your mortgage anytime during each
anniversary year of your mortgage, without penalty or administration fee.
Lump sum payments must be a minimum of $100.00 and made on a regularly
scheduled payment due date.
Your mortgage also
allows you to increase your principal and interest amount by up to 20%
each anniversary year. This is another excellent way to pay down your
mortgage faster. The entire amount of these payment increases is applied
directly against your principal balance. Try our calculator to see how it works.
Whether you wish to
make a lump sum payment, which you can arrange to be made directly through
your pre-authorized account, or increase your instalment amount, simply
contact us via phone, fax, or e-mail. After that, just sit back and watch
your mortgage balance disappear!.
Amortization Periods
New offering! Now you have the option of up to a 40 year amortization on MCAP's VIP M-Power Mortgage.
Mortgage Payment Strategies
Pay it down faster, and watch the interest charges vanish.
When you establish or renew your MCAP mortgage, you can increase the amount of your
regular mortgage payments to shorten your amortization period. The amortization
period represents the actual number of years it takes to repay a mortgage loan in
full.
If your budget will allow you to pay just a little extra per month, you’ll
be surprised to see how much faster you can pay off your mortgage. Look at the example
below:
The Jones family has a mortgage balance of $100,000.00 at an interest rate of 7.00%
for a 5-year closed term. They have chosen a 25-year amortization period.
The Miller family has a mortgage balance of $100,000.00 at an interest rate of 7.00%
for a 5-year closed term. They have chosen a 20-year amortization period.
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$100,000 mortgage at 7.00%* interest rate
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Monthly Principal & Interest Payments
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Total Interest Over the Amortization Period
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Jones family – 25-years |
$700.42
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$110,122.22**
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Miller family – 20-years
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$769.31
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$84,634.64**
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The Miller family saves $25,487.58 in interest over the course of their mortgage
compared to the Jones Family.
* Interest is compounded semi-annually not in advance. ** Calculations
are approximate and are based on the interest rate being constant throughout the
entire amortization period, and assumes all regularly scheduled payments are made
as required.
Payment Frequencies
Accelerate to Mortgage Freedom
Use our accelerated payment frequencies to speed up your amortization
In the past, paying a mortgage monthly has been the norm. However, today
an increasing number of people are opting to pay their mortgage on a bi-weekly
basis. These payment frequencies not only provide the flexibility of coinciding
with your pay periods at work, they also offer the benefit of reducing
your mortgage amortization period.
An accelerated payment
frequency means that your mortgage will be repaid sooner when compared
with the traditional monthly instalment. This acceleration benefits you,
as you will reduce the overall amount of interest you must pay against
your mortgage. Take a look at the example below:
The Anderson family has a mortgage balance of $100,000.00 at an interest
rate of 7.00% for a 10-year closed term. They have chosen a monthly
payment of $700.00.
The Dumont family
also has a mortgage balance of $100,000.00 at an interest rate of 7.00%
for a 10-year closed term. They have chosen to pay a bi-weekly instalment
of $350.00.
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$100,000 mortgage at 7.00%* interest rate
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Instalment Amount
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Amortization Period
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Amount of Interest Paid over Amortization Period
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| Anderson
family – monthly |
$700.00 |
25
years |
$110,331.82** |
| Dumont
family – bi-weekly |
$350.00 |
20
years, 7 months |
$87,152.02** |
By paying
their mortgage bi-weekly the Dumont family not only reduces the time required
to pay off their mortgage balance in full by 4.5 years they also save
$23,179.80 in interest payments compared to the Anderson family.
* Interest
is compounded semi-annually not in advance.
** Calculations are approximate and are based on the interest rate
being constant throughout the entire amortization period, and assumes
all regular scheduled payments are made as required.
Skip-a-payment Program
An unexpected expense, a sick family member, temporary job loss, the arrival
of a new baby—there are times in everyone’s life when we could
benefit from a little financial breather. MCAP recognizes that during
these times, flexibility with your mortgage payments could be a real benefit.
That’s why we have created our Skip-A-Payment option.
The Skip-A-Payment program gives you the option, upon approval, to defer up to four mortgage payments at any time and for any reason. Once you repay the skipped payments, the option will be open to you again. The interest due is capitalized to your mortgage loan. The Skip-A-Payment program is available on certain products and approval is required.
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