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Speaker 0 describes refinancing their mortgage today after rates dropped, saving about $300 a month. They present an amortization schedule to discuss why they believe home buying in America is a scam and why this will be their last house in the country.
Key details:
- Mortgage is a standard 30-year loan, a VA loan with no down payment and no private mortgage insurance.
- They didn’t put anything down and went from owing $784,000 to $795,000.
- Original interest rate was 6.2%, now 5.6%.
- They plan to sell the house when the husband retires in four years, expecting to exit the U.S.
- By 2030 they expect to owe just under $750,000, meaning they will have paid off about $50,000 in four years.
- Despite a $50k principal reduction, the monthly payment is $5,700. With 50 payments, that totals about $285,000.
- The amortization schedule shows financing $795,000, and if the 5.6% rate continued for thirty years, total payments would be about $1,600,000.
- The speaker claims the biggest scam is the interest charged in the first year. They reference past videos about it and acknowledge responsibility for their situation.
- Closing costs were $7,000, including $3,500 in upfront interest.
- Principal and interest are $4,500; taxes add about $1,000, bringing the monthly total to about $5,700.
- The first payment is $1,101; of that, $4,500 is the principal and interest amount, with $3,700 of that going to interest.
- After the first payment, only about $849 goes to the principal; every month after that, only about $4 goes toward principal.
- Over the next twelve months, they expect roughly $54,000 in principal and interest payments, not including taxes, yet the amortization schedule shows they won’t have paid down the mortgage by more than about $10,000 in that year.
- Before refinancing, they owed around $784,000; twelve months from the refinance, they expect to owe about the same amount as the day before refinancing.
- They argue refinancing is a scam because even if they save money, “the math” suggests they won’t recoup it; they also plan to cash out the escrow from the previous mortgage and expect to receive about $14,000, framed as a positive in “girl math,” but they feel they are actually spending more money with the bank.
- Since they intend to sell in four years, refinancing again with a lower rate wouldn’t be recouped because most first-year payments go to interest.
- They hope to reduce the mortgage by about $50,000 (to around $747,000) and sell for perhaps $850,000, though this does not account for realtor fees and other costs. They express uncertainty about ending up with cash, suggesting they might leave the U.S. with about $50,000.
- The speaker concludes that home buying in the United States is an absolute scam and laments that the only other options are renting from someone paying a mortgage to the same bank or homelessness.