Mortgage Payment
The whole payment — taxes, insurance, PMI and HOA included.
Free mortgage, loan, debt and credit calculators that show the actual formula and the working — plus an honest account of what every number leaves out.
Six tools covering the decisions that cost the most money: buying, borrowing, refinancing, and getting out of debt.
The whole payment — taxes, insurance, PMI and HOA included.
Work backwards from your income using the 28/36 rule.
What one extra payment a month actually saves you.
How long until refinancing actually pays for itself.
Both methods, same debts, side by side.
Which lever actually moves your score — and by roughly how much.
Every result comes with the formula and the arithmetic that produced it, laid out step by step. If you want to check our math on paper, you can. Most calculators ask you to trust a black box.
A mortgage calculator that reports principal and interest is describing roughly 70–80% of your real monthly cost. Every page here carries a Reality Check listing the costs, assumptions and failure modes the number excludes.
Rates come from Freddie Mac's PMMS. Card APRs come from the Federal Reserve's G.19. Credit scoring weights come from myFICO. Rules come from the CFPB and the statute. Every page lists its sources with dates.
Defaults used across the site, from primary sources. Always enter the rate you have actually been quoted.
Your credit score sets your interest rate, and your interest rate sets what everything costs. The Credit Score Hub covers how scoring actually works — and what genuinely moves it.
The five factors, their published weights, and what each one is worth.
Ranked by actual impact, with the myths named and dismissed.
The fastest-moving 30% of your score, and the statement-date detail most people miss.