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Vengeance_Mad
post Oct 10 2023, 12:27 PM

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Hi Gurus, I want to check with you guys on my loan repayment arrangements with my Bank.
Currently my bank's process for mortgage repayment is;

1) Bank created a special saving acc
2) Bank instruct to deposit the monthly installment amt into this acc, and it will automatically-credit to the Mortgage acc
3) Bank said if I have extra, I can deposit excess/extra into this saving acc, and the interest % will be calculated daily. (Excess money can be withdrawn anytime with some charges)
4) Aside from No.3, if I wish to pay extra on principal amount, I need to give 1 month notice to bank and arrange accordingly with their officer.


The above said, my questions are :

A) I asked bank if I want to pay extra monthly, what should I do? since I cannot pay to the Mortgage account directly. Then my bank advised me to just deposit the excess money here and the interest will be reduced.
B) Have any of you come across similar arrangements with your banks?
Vengeance_Mad
post Oct 11 2023, 11:37 AM

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QUOTE(mini orchard @ Oct 10 2023, 01:03 PM)
In (A), what is 'here' ? Is it same as (3) ?
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Yes, when I say 'here', it means to the saving acc.
Which I feel may, it will be the scenario mentioned by ChuanHong below, the excess is considered as advance payment and not deduct principal..

QUOTE(ChuanHong @ Oct 10 2023, 09:53 PM)
you are right from the term.. from my own experience perspective, i have 3 mortgage loan, 2 in HLB and 1 in MBB.. they are same.. im using semi flexi instead of full flexi.. mortgage loan interests are calculate in daily basis as far as i knew if you go to semi flexi & full flexi loan.. it not deduct your principal and it is serve as advance payment which you are right. but your interests are count based on (principal - advance payment) x interests rate..

unless you call to bank and ask them to use advance payment to deduct your principal.. (indirectly you cant withdraw it out anymore after this)..
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Hi ChuanHong, I think I'm in the same situation as you.
If any extra payment is considered as advance payment, is it better to park all my savings there? Then withdraw when necessary?


Vengeance_Mad
post Oct 11 2023, 06:12 PM

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QUOTE(ChuanHong @ Oct 11 2023, 02:22 PM)
for normal working people and the property is own stay.. yes.. i dont see the cons to not putting the extra money in semi flexi loan account.. i attached a screenshot about the actual transaction in my sample.. when u have a lot of advance payment, your monthly principal deduction amount will be increased, of course there is a factor of 30 days, 31 days for each months..

e.g. 03 Apr 2023 been debit 1376.67 interests in my account.. it is due to March have 31 days.. average per day is 44.41 for interests..when go to 03 May 2023, my account debit 1330.25 cause use 44.41 x 30 days in Apr.. which is around 1332.30 or exact number by bank is 1330.25... minor difference is based on when we pay monthly installment amount into account, and it will have minor difference due to your principal - advance payment is lower again..

my advice is pay a little extra is fine like my sample is 1955 for monthyl installment, but i paid 2000 every month.. slowly your advance payment will be accumulated after maybe 5/10 years.. if you have bonus every year, just lump into it.. when you need cash liquidity, just have to go to bank and fill up some form and cash out the money from your advance payment (but limited to cash out by thousands value, e.g. 1k/2k/3k/4k like that, cannot take out 500/1900).. and it incur small charges like RM25/50..
sorry as im not good in explaining all these in professional ways.. but i hope you guys can understnad my broken english..
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Thanks for your advise ChuanHong.
I just checked my bank.. so apparently my acc is a 'current acc' with card..

Can I ask if your current repayment in manual? or is it auto-transfer from acc-to-acc like my case?
Reason I asked is because I am also thinking to pay extra abit every month, but my current arrangement is the 'current acc' will auto-transfer to mortgage acc.. so I cant really 'set' it to transfer more..
Vengeance_Mad
post Oct 12 2023, 12:33 PM

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QUOTE(ChuanHong @ Oct 11 2023, 09:13 PM)
current account? are you having full flexi loan account? only flexi loan tied to individual current account. how long u have the mortgage loan? usually current account will have monthly/yearly fee.. check there is any small fee charge into your current account?!

it is fine to pay extra every month.. it will automatically reducing the interests on your loan.. the benefit of having current account is that you can make additional payment/withdraw money from your current account without having any pre-approval from bank.. but cons is there should have a minimum maintenance charge in monthly/yearly basis..
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Yes you are right. I am having full flexi loan acc with my bank right now and yes there are a small fee charge for some maintenance/trx.
Ok, then I would just put most of my saving/liquid money into that acc, and it should be reduce the interest right?
Vengeance_Mad
post Oct 30 2023, 01:08 PM

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QUOTE(bigduck @ Oct 29 2023, 08:17 PM)
what bank is this?
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It's HLB.
Btw they created a current account, not saving acc. Just wanted to correct myself.

 

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