Why don’t mortgage payments decrease each month to reflect the lower balance on the principal?
In: Economics
if you would pay (say) 1% of the principal each year (and the rest is the interest for that year), paying the next year again 1% of the reduced principal would be a bad idea: Each and every payment would be a fixed fraction of the principal. The loan would simple run forever, you would never pay the remaining principal in full.
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