nebs

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[–] nebs@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only the pre payment money is available to withdraw. I can prepay up to 20% of my mortgage every year. This feature of withdrawing your prepayment is available on regular BMO mortgages, I just switched to BMO in a 3yr fixed because they gave me the best rate.

My personal banking is with simplii and I’m not impressed with their HISA so thought about this scheme as a replacement.

[–] nebs@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Reading through how BMO explains it, it seems like pulling money out just adds back to the principle of my mortgage at the same mortgage interest rate, so no extra borrowing expense:

From BMO: “The re-borrowed funds are added to your mortgage principal at your existing interest rate for the remainder of the term.”

 

Anybody have experience using BMO mortgage cash account? This is where you can pre-pay down the principle and then supposedly withdraw those funds when needed. I’ve been frustrated by the terms and conditions on my daily HISA so thinking this could be a way to get the equivalent of 5.15% (my current mortgage rate) for money that I don’t need to touch frequently. Seems like I can’t do better than this even in a HISA ETF.

My concerns are: am I thinking about this the right way? (Paying down principle on mortgage is equivalent to earning that percentage in a regular bank account?). Does this BMO mortgage feature really work like this? It wasn’t advertised to me, I had to dig into it.

[–] nebs@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where’s the best place to put money in a high interest savings account?

I’ve been with simplii for a really long time but it’s not clear what interest rate I’m going to be getting in my HISA after the promotional offer and I really don’t like that the promotional interest isn’t paid out monthly.

Should I just sign up for an investment account and buy the equivalent of cash.to (which doesn’t seem to offered at big bank investment accounts)?

[–] nebs@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Probably why my 4nm AMD based laptop hasn’t shipped yet…still recovering from when Apple bought up the 4nm process.