QUOTE(tsunamiboy @ Sep 11 2012, 01:57 PM)
I booked a project unit at398k price.Here is the loan details i got
-Conventional(DIBS package)-2.4 BLR
-loan 358,740+MRTA premium RM830
-MRTA covered for RM100k(sum insured)for 8 years(include 3 years construction period)
-Loan tenure@40 years
Monthly installment@RM1,548
-lock in period@3years&2% on approved loan ammount
is this loan worth it?
hi bro,
do you know that by insuring MRTA sum assured of only RM100k, and for a duration of 8 years... unless you have huge life insurance to cover that, you are seriously under-insurring for your property.. So meaning you are transferring all the risk to your immediate family.. And coupled with 8 years tenure... as you may know, MRTA is on a reducing scale.. ie Sum assured simulation... Yr 1 - RM100k, Yr 2 - RM87.5k, Yr 3 - RM75k... Yr 7 - RM12.5k, Yr 8 - RM0k... So even if something happens to you on Yr 7, whilst you may think you are still within the assured period, your actual insured amt might be minimal.
even if you have life insurance... previously, you intend to leave RM300k for your family, but since you take this RM300k as part of your MLTA, in effect, in case something happens to you, you are correct, your property loan will be fully settled, by way of MRTA and Life insurance, but then the original RM300k intended to leave to your wife for normal expenses, would have been gone..so you leave them nothing in cash, now that your insurance is being used to cover the loan amt...
Some may argue that, for investment, as they intend to flip, don't need to buy... its the same issue... if you have the benefit of hindsight.. and you know nothing is going to happen to you, then fine - don't buy at all... but no one knows the future, and all this is about risk management. ur taking a short term gamble with your family future...
Some may also argue that, hey - this is for investment, worst case scenario, sell the property! without this investment, your family already have a house to live in... true as it may be, but imagine this... your family already lost the bread winner, and someone dear to them... already very distraught... now have to face with the harrassment from the bank to either settlement, refinance into their own name, sell the house, or lelong! All this brings unneccessary stress to your wife - on top of the heartbreak of losing you!!
I'd never bear myself to let my loved ones to go through that torture... Would you?