Private Mortgage Insurance - PMI

and finance Allah shmoop What is PM I insurance All

right people There's your car insurance your health insurance What's

that you say you're buying a house with less than

20% of the home's value is a down payment Well

guess what that means more insurance for you Yes private

mortgage insurance PM I accept the PM I isn't insurance

for you No it's insurance for your bank The interest

you pay on your mortgage is like interest you pay

on any other loan which is paying the lender for

the service of getting money sooner rather than later you

know via alone But since mortgages are so big while

they're essentially big gambles for banks if you pay a

down payment of 20% or more on your house well

the bank's trust that they'll get all their money back

because he already paid 20% of the value of the

house up front and the odds that the home goes

down more than 20% in value and all that stuff

in any kind of short term is pretty low right

So But if you don't put down 20% like you

know if your down payments 10% or 5% or something

like that Well then the banks will still let you

have your mortgage but only if you pay for private

mortgage insurance to cover the banks for taking on a

whole lot of risk on you Write so well go

through an example If someone pays 200 grand for a

home and they put 20% down well they've paid $40,000

up front to the bank Then the bank creates alone

for the remaining 160 grand which the borrower pays off

over a 15 or maybe 30 years If all else

goes smoothly since the buyer put 20% down they can

skip the monthly PM I payments which is kind of

a big deal right PM I can cost between 1/2

a percent or 1% of the loan every year maybe

more depending on you know how bad your credit is

For instance if that same someone put 10% down instead

of 20% on that same 200 grand home So that

means they put $20,000 down took out a mortgage of

180 grand well since their down payment is less than

20% of the house price They'll be stuck paying PM

I which will cost him somewhere around a grand or

two a year plus taxes and yes PM My payments

are not act deductible Unlike mortgage it's kind of ironic

but having less money often cost you more money Yes

welcome to the real world people because well less money

means more risk for the bank Well should something go

awry and you can't make payments anymore well the bank

has to then sell the house to try to regain

the money from your defaulted loan And yes it's a

bummer for you but well it's a bummer for your

bank to they hate this Truth be told the bank

would rather not sell your house since that whole affair

is a whole lot of trouble and cost them money

and grief and bad press The commission and lawyer costs

and eviction Sheriff bumper cars you know families being evicted

all those expenses Yeah they add up This is where

pm I comes in Private mortgage insurance is insurance for

your lenders In case you end up getting your house

foreclosed upon the PM I money You've been paying for

Your lender goes towards an insurance policy that helps your

lender recuperate the money they lend you especially if the

house sells for less than what you originally borrowed Like

you paid 200004th But you overpaid It really should've sold

for 1 85 and then the market went down And

then he had to pay a 6% commission to the

Realtor And he's only paid two grand of your mortgage

down And somehow after all the expenses the bank only

got 146 grand in there $10,000 in the hole And

that's a big problem right So how do you avoid

paying PM I You know money that's just going down

the tubes down the drain and into an insurance policy

to help your bank your lender a sleep better at

night Well you put 20% down That's how but we'll

say you can't afford to put 20% down or it's

too little too late You already put 10 or 15%

down on you in that home You're stuck paying PM

My number's right Well the good news is you can

stop paying PM I eventually That is you Khun Stopping

PM I once you've paid off 20% of your home

or the value of your home is gone up enough

such that the bank believes that you actually have 20%

equity in the home as long as 20% of your

house has yet to be paid for in cold hard

cash while your bank will consider you in the danger

zone requiring PM I payments once you have 20% equity

in your house out right Well whether your initial down

payment or not while you don't have to pay PM

eye anymore you know so long as you tell your

lender right legally they have to stop charging UPM my

payments Once you tap them on the shoulder and officially

say Hey guys I have 20% equity in my house

now So can you like not do it with the

PM I charges anymore If you forget step them on

the shoulder When you have that 20% inequity Well don't

worry They legally have to stop charging you for PM

I Once you get to 22% equity in your home

if you put 10% down on that $200,000 house or

20 grand and made monthly mortgage NPM my payments with

some extra mortgage payments thrown in until you paid down

another 20 grand Well now notionally At least you have

$40,000 in equity or 20% equity in your home Time

to call the bank and say science art of those

PM I payments But if you don't if you don't

tell him if you don't give him a legal notice

well then you'll keep paying PM I along with your

monthly mortgage payments you know kind of forever ish That

is until you have 22% equity in the home which

is when you've paid 24 grand incrementally in mortgage payments

down right If you want to save money well better

to tell your lender to get rid of that PM

I soon as you can If you put less than

20% down in your house it's a race to reach

that 20% equity so that you can stop making these

pesky PM I payments And besides just paying mohr than

you have to on your mortgage while for instance making

a full extra mortgage payment every year which can save

you a surprising amount of the mortgage interest in the

long run Just saying there are some other options too

If the housing market is hot in the value of

your house has gone up well you can get your

house reappraised to show they have 20% equity in your

home just based on the down payment they already made

and head back to your lender with that good news

right So in this case if a homeowner put 20

grand down and took a loan for 180 grand on

a $200,000 home purchase price and in five years they

paid down the 180,000 they owed to being well just

170 now and in that time period the home's value

one from 200 grand to a new Zillow estimated market

value of 250 grand then the easy math would let

the home longer subtract $170,000 in mortgage from the $250,000

Zillow price showing equity they had in their home of

$80,000 Well 80 over 250 Yeah that's 32% of the

homes new value well over the 20% needed for PM

My insurance If the market's doing that well it's probably

in the homeowners best interest to refinance at at that

point in anyway because you probably get cheaper interest rates

Another thing homeowners can do Besides you know praying to

the housing gods for a favorable market is to take

their home into their own hands Literally renovated bathrooms and

kitchens are too big ese that add significant value to

a house especially if they were you know outdated When

he about the house Ah homeowner can get toe work

sprucing up their home then get it re appraise for

a higher amount which will have the same effect as

if the housing market gods were favorable at the time

And the risk here of course is that if you

live in a state where it's taxes are based on

the appraised value of your home when you re appraise

it at a higher value you risk the tax man

coming by and raising your taxes So yeah have you

got in for people Homeowners can do all three of

these things make extra mortgage payments created the housing market

gods for favorable market and replace that godawful sink in

the kitchen that has a questionable permanent stain The sooner

you get 20% equity while the sooner homeowners will free 00:06:58.868 --> [endTime] themselves of the shackles of PM I payments gloriously