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Car loan? House loan?
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TScheehoong91
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Apr 27 2020, 01:36 PM, updated 6y ago
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Hello everyone, need some advices on which plan to go for is better for me. I have a hire purchase loan with 3.87% interest balance with RM30k and 3years more to go.
Assuming I have extra funds now, would it be wise to dump everything on hire purchase and get 2.7k discount or better to dump in house loan with 4.2%?
Just want to know which is more worth it to deal with my extra funds? FD rate is so low these days at 3% only.
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TScheehoong91
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Apr 27 2020, 05:07 PM
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QUOTE(cempedaklife @ Apr 27 2020, 04:52 PM) if your house loan is fully flexi, i would dump into housing loan, at least you have the flexibility. even if it's not full flexi, i still would not settle the car loan. put the money somewhere else. Semi flexi consider as flexi loan also right? Just that the procedure of withdrawing the money a bit hassel
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TScheehoong91
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Apr 27 2020, 07:02 PM
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Wow.. It seems like dumping my extra funds into house loan is a better choice. Thanks guys
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TScheehoong91
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Apr 27 2020, 08:05 PM
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QUOTE(victorian @ Apr 27 2020, 07:37 PM) I’ll dump into car loan only if I can fully settle the car loan, thus increasing my cash flow. Example you owe bank 40k car loan, you are paying Rm1,500 per month. Let’s say you have 40k cash in hand and you want to buy another house. If you dump your 40k cash into your home loan, it wouldn’t do anything to your cash flow. You are still paying both House and car per month. However if you decide to fully settle your loan, you can release Rm1,500 worth of cash flow and with that you can use to to buy your second property. Else if you do not have any plans, just pay down your housing loan. I was thinking to just dump my extra fund into housing loan since the interest rate is higher than hire purchase loan. I know hire purchase loan interest is fixed. But if I were to pay up now then I will get rebate of about 2.7k.. Loan balance 30k.. So I'm a bit confuse if its worth it to dump the extra fund into car loan after doing the math
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TScheehoong91
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Apr 27 2020, 08:05 PM
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QUOTE(taiping... @ Apr 27 2020, 07:59 PM) Just make sure u have sufficient for emergency fund Yeap definitely.
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TScheehoong91
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Apr 27 2020, 08:29 PM
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QUOTE(victorian @ Apr 27 2020, 08:24 PM) Ermm bro no, hire loan is simple interest. If you convert it to reducing interest the rate will be higher than housing loan. Anyway you can’t change that already, the interest rate is already fixed when you buy the car. The 2.7k rebate that you will get is far less than what you’ll get if you invested that money elsewhere and pay your car loan as usual. Unless you wanna free up your cash flow, there’s no reason to pay up your car loan. The interest is already incurred, just go with it. Understood. This give me an idea settling my car loan is not a wise choice. I will put in my housing loan then since mine is semi flexi.. Can take out if I need it for emergency purpose which is unlikely. Then I can reduce my principal amount which resulted lesser interest rate incur.
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TScheehoong91
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Apr 27 2020, 10:22 PM
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QUOTE(Death Wings @ Apr 27 2020, 08:35 PM) yep, good call. For me, if I have 30k, I'll probably take out 20k to invest, 10k to housing loan hehe just saying. so even if my investment didnt perform I don't wholly lose it.  Invest in what? Stock ke?
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