Ok, let’s continue on the BLR Management.
But before this, I want to share something with you guys. After I attended the talk, I joined a course on last weekday. I took leave for that, it was a day course. The course is to help you to more understand how the BLR works, what are the background and some technical knowledge.
BLR fluctuated almost every year. This year already increased twice on March and May. The might be another round of adjustment on coming July/Sept. BLR play important role in property loan. The total amount that we going to pay back to the bank are mainly depends on the BLR.
For e.g. If the loan amount we signed was RM 200,000.00.Tenure is 30 years and BLR is 5% p.a. Based on this figure, the total amount plus interest we need to pay back to bank is RM 500,000.00. Can you see? The amount that we pay back is equal to 2 units of your property. Don’t think that you pay RM 1,388 every month for 30 years and the loan can be settling. If the BLR rate increases then you have to pay extra few years for the increased interest.
I believe many people know that for the first few years, the proportion of monthly payment is more to interest rather than principle. It might be 90% to interest and 10% to principle. The money we pay will cover the interest first then balance to principle. It might have the case that the monthly figure you pay does not enough to cover the interest. If this happen means “Friend, you have to pay extra many years to settle your loan”.
The course give us a clear picture that what is our current status, where is our money goes to and how to settle the loan in shorter period. This is where the SIM50 came in. SIM50 stand for Slash Interest Methodology into 50%. With this methodology it will cut the outstanding loan interest into half and the tenure into half. There is no way to cut the principle, that’s the money we borrow, so must pay back.
I will explain more about this in coming post.