Mortgage/Loan druid questions

Josh Sled jsled at asynchronous.org
Mon Apr 24 09:34:59 EDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 15:17 +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> ===> What is the purpose of 3/1 - 10/1 when you can specify everything
> manually?

To add an end date on the SXes and UI support for the yearly revisions
to the loan, once the first {3,5,10,...} years are up.  Note the UI
support is not implemented. :(


> Escrow ???
>         Guess this is which account you use to pay the loan from?

Yes; it's an intermediate account you pay into, from which the loan is
actually paid.


> ===> Do not seem to be possible to change this formula? Whatever I type in
> dissapears (after hitting forward, and then back)

Hmm.  This should definitely work.  I wonder what changed.

I just filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339566 for this.


> ===> How do I set up ballon payment in the end (at least I think it is
> called that :) ) A loan of 20000, you pay fixed amount for 3 years, then
> the remainder in one go.

You cannot.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333159


> ===> No way to get a running total (payed, as well as remaining amount of
> loan)? in the review page?

Not presently.  I just filed
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339567 for this.

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