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Amortization: How Loan Payments Really Work
Why the first years of a mortgage are almost all interest, how a fixed payment splits, and what one extra payment a month actually does to the total.
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Every loan is the same three variables — amount, rate and time — arranged differently. These guides show how amortization splits a payment between interest and principal, and how extra payments change the total.
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