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 Reduce House Loan: Knock Off 8.5 years from loan!, Anyone is doing this?

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TSNation of Sensation
post Jul 1 2015, 07:11 AM, updated 11y ago

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Hello,

In regards to the article below:

http://michaelyeoh.com.my/knock-out/

TLDR; version:

1) Instead of paying monthly for your housing loan installment, pay bi-weekly. That basically means that you will be paying every 2 weeks once.
2) Topup another 10% from your installment amount so that the additional payment would knock off the principal amount and reduce the interest even further subsequently.

I'm wondering, is there anyone that is following either or one of the method mentioned above? I'm with Ambank for now, do they even allow bi-weekly payment? Or is there a hidden catch somewhere?

Do share your experience. Thanks!
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post Jul 1 2015, 08:31 AM

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QUOTE(ijan @ Jul 1 2015, 07:34 AM)
if your loan is so-called Flexi, you can do this.

Or, if your bank allows, you can directly pay to principal, albeit manual instruction to bank officer. Nothing new.
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Yeah, I'm on semi-flexi. Does that mean I have to manually write in to the bank bi-weekly in order for my additional RM100 payment to knock off the principal amount? There got to be a better way I presume. unsure.gif

QUOTE(joylay83 @ Jul 1 2015, 07:37 AM)
basically, pay as much juice you can squeeze out of yourself  wink.gif  and as fast as you can.
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Yes true true wink.gif

QUOTE(payamam @ Jul 1 2015, 08:08 AM)
I still don't get how let say your monthly installment is RM1.5k, you pay 2 x RM750 will result in reduction of tenure & interest paid.
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Because the interest is calculated on a daily/monthly rest basis.

https://1stophomefinance.wordpress.com/home...and-daily-rest/



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post Jul 3 2015, 10:15 AM

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QUOTE(wild_card_my @ Jul 1 2015, 11:46 AM)
For the recent mortgage products, interests are charged on a daily basis, although your installment is being paid only once a month.

For this method to work, it requires a loan account that has flexi facility (not necessarily full-flexi). Even for semi-flexi accounts like the recent OCBC mortgage product (please verify this with your own bank's customer service) the advance payment goes into reducing the outstanding loan. Full flexi is just a fancy word to show that you can freely move money from your savings account to your loan account (for CIMB, they are the same account!) but it comes with a fee of between RM5 to RM20 a month.

Interest is calculated based on the outstanding loan, based on a daily-rest (meaning it is incurred on a daily basis) and by paying bi-weekly, you would save the interest (of the principal portion that you paid in the middle of the month) incurred on your loans by up to 15 days (which is the eventual installment date if you were to pay monthly)

Essentially, this is nothing more than simply paying your loans earlier than you agreed to. It would definitely help, as much how putting a large sum of your bonus into the loan account would reduce the tenure and hence, the interest incurred
You are right in some sense that this is difficult to monitor. But in my opinion, there isn't too much to monitor as all you are doing is paying more on top of your installment, to reduce the outstanding loan thus incurring less and less interests.
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Thanks for your detailed explanation!

I understand that for flexi account, whatever amount in excess will be used to knock off the principal amount but for semi-flexi accounts, I understand that we would need to write in or manually request from the bankers to make the adjustments.

Can I write in to the bank only ONCE to inform them that whatever I'm paying additional should be used to knock-off the principal or do I have to write in to them every 2 weeks?

 

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