What is Better: take a Second Loan or Pay PMI?
Use this calculator to weigh the advantages and options of taking a second mortgage and lowering your PMI all the way down to zero.
The default entries provided in the calculator show a home value of $300,000 with a down payment of 10% and an annual PMI of 0.5 %. The Financial Analysis results show total payments of $515,473.16 for the Standard loan and $465,556.26 for the 80%/Second package, which is substantially lower.
To use the calculator, enter the following information:
Property Information: Home Value.
Additional Information: Annual PMI (choose dollars or percentage) and Down Payment (choose 5%, 10% or 15%).
Standard, 80% loan and 2nd loan values for the following fields: Interest Rate, Length (in years), Points (percentage) and Closing Costs.
The calculator will compute the following information:
| Points Value | Months with PMI |
| Closing Costs | Monthly PMI |
| Total Closing Costs | Monthly Payment |
| Down Payment | Totally Interest Paid |
| Upfront Cost | Total PMI |
| Amount Financed | Total Payments |
| Monthly P&I |
The calculator can also produce a PDF output file for download, and you can click the check box to view the Schedule Table for the time frame selected. The Schedule Table fields include: Number (of payment month), Interest, Principal, PMI and Balance. It also shows totals for every field after each year of the mortgage.
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