Friday, September 28, 2007

Life Insurance

Issue Rate x Policy
--------------------------- + 75 = Annual Premium

1000

Factors that affect life insurance smoking status, age, gender,


amount of coverage, job status, health status.




Homeowner's Insurance


- covers the contents, the building, and liability
related to your property.

- Comprehensive Insurance covers more than Broad.


- Five main factors that determin the cost: Replacement cost


Location, Coverage, amount of deductible, available


discounts.



-Use Charts!


Lesson 3: Mortgages


rate x mortgage paymentP / 1000 = monthyl payment


owners equity(how much you own) vs. unpaid balance(how much you owe)


Amortization - total length of time (usually in years) it takes to pay a mortgage in it's entirety.



Lesson 4: Mortgage Spreadsheets


Mortgage = purchase price - down payment


Intrest on the unpaid balance:

Inerest = (intrest rate x previous unpaid balance)/ 12

Principal = payment - interest

Unpaid Balance = previous unpaid balance - principal

Owner's Equity = previous owner's equity + principal


Lesson 5: Initial Costs in Purchasing a Home


The larger the down payment, the less your home will cost in the long run.


Land transfer Tax: On the first 30 000 nil

next 60 000 0.5%

next 60 000 1.0%

Rest of the cost 1.5%


In this lesson you are basically adding up all the costs to move into a new house and adding on the land transfer taxes.



Lesson 6: Affordable Housing


Gross Debt Service Ratio - financial institutions state that house expences should not exceed 32% of your gross income.

Two factors that influence how much people are willing to spend on homes...income, and cash reserves (assests)

Monthy Mortgage Payment+Monthy Property Taxes+Monthly Heating

________________________________________________________ x 100

Gross monthy income











Monday, September 24, 2007

Additional Housing Costs

This is what we were supposed to have learned today! It is my wish that you indeed learn this, among many other things....


RM


Friday, September 21, 2007

Personal Finance Lesson #4

What did you learn about lesson #4 that you think is worth sharing with your classmates? Specifically, in your comments below, DISCUSS something you didn't know prior to this lesson. Be honest, and try to use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation as much as possible...

RM

Personal Finance Lesson #3

What did you learn about lesson #3 that you think is worth sharing with your classmates? Specifically, in your comments below, DISCUSS something you didn't know prior to this lesson. Be honest, and try to use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation as much as possible...

RM

Personal Finance Lesson #2

What did you learn about lesson #2 that you think is worth sharing with your classmates? Specifically, in your comments below, DISCUSS something you didn't know prior to this lesson. Be honest, and try to use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation as much as possible...

RM

Personal Finance Lesson #1

What did you learn about lesson #1 that you think is worth sharing with your classmates? Specifically, in your comments below, DISCUSS something you didn't know prior to this lesson. Be honest, and try to use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation as much as possible...

RM

Monday, September 10, 2007

Check out the video we watched last week, to start the school year...Thanks as always to Karl Fisch & Scott McLeod for making this possible...

First Post!

Welcome to the Consumer Math blog for this semester ('07/'08) at the SVRSS. The purpose of this place on the web is to learn Consumer Math together. Have a great semester!

RM