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Other Costs of Buying a Home

Question 3 • 26-27 Ignite Technical Math-Financial Math - MA2007

Without buying points, a monthly mortgage payment will be $958. Buying 1 point at closing would reduce the payment to $948.75. If each point costs $1000.00, rounded to the nearest year, how long would it take to break even by buying 1 point?

Answer
A
7 years
B
8 years
C
9 years
D
10 years

Explanation

Buying 1 point costs $1,000 and saves $958 − $948.75 = $9.25 each month. The break-even time is $1,000 ÷ $9.25 ≈ 108.1 months, or 108.1 ÷ 12 ≈ 9.0 years. So the best answer is 9 years.

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