Oppenheimer Bank is offering a 30-year mortgage with an APR of 4.79% based on monthly compounding. With this mortgage, your monthly payments would be $1,964 per month. In addition, Oppenheimer Bank offers you the following deal: Instead of making the monthly payment of $1,964 every month, you can make half the payment every two weeks (so that you will make 52/2 = 26 payments per year). With this plan, how long will it take to pay off the mortgage if the EAR of the loan is unchanged? Note: Make sure to round all intermediate calculations to at least 8 decimal places. The number of payments will be, which is approximately years. (Round to two decimal places and enter the years rounded to the nearest whole number.)

You are considering two payment options on a $500,000 20-year mortgage having an interest rate of 2.8% compounded monthly. The first option is to make monthly payments at the start of each month, while the second option is to make payments at the end of each month. How much interest will be saved by choosing the first option? Ⓒa. $1,521.60 O b. $1,721.60 O c. $1,921.60 O d. $2,121.60 Oe. $2,321.60 Clear my choice

A borrower is making a choice between a mortgage with monthly payments or biweekly payments. The loan will be $200,000 at 6 percent interest for 20 years. a. How would you analyze these alternatives? b. What if the biweekly loan was available for 5.75 percent? How would your answer change? c. If you take the monthly payment and agree to pay ½ of it every two weeks, when would your loan reach maturity?.    Please correct and with steps.

Suppose that you are currently making monthly paymentson a $163,133.00 20-year mortgage at 3.84% interest compound monthly. For the last 5 years , you have been paying the regular, monthly payments. You now have the option to refinance your current mortgage with a new 12-year mortgage that has an interest rate of 2.99% compounded monthly. Note that the lender of the new loan has a closing cost fee of $1,100 (for title insurance,home appraisal costs, etc. )for the new ( refinanced)mortgage. The lender stipulates that closing cost must be paid in cash and cannot be part of the new loan. You are to determine whether you would save or lose money in interest if you were to refinance your home. Take the closing into account when determining if you would save or lose money.