Real Estate Calculators?

[leumas]

I originally saw one on the site that I based my template on
http://www.davishomes2sell.com/mortgage-calculator.php
but I don't know if it was included like a contact form or is an extra. If it's included I'd certainly like one for my site.

[judyo]

I would think we need to start a thread in the Template thread for REW clients. I'll go start one if it isn't up yet. I'm assuming it's just a quick code & there would be no charge.

[Homesurfer]

Iv'e installed calculators on title and escrow sites for years and most of the free versions are dicey, to say the least. In the first place, you MUST know what the annual period they are caluculating against...Most use 360-day years, not 365s.

Mortgage payments are calculated on a 360 day year, not a 365 day year.
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[langard]

Sorry Terry, there are 365 days in a year and U.S. banks won't give you five free days of accrued interest. However, they will in other countries which makes international transactions interesting. Those five days are what's called "float" in the title industry and U.S. banks want every penny of it. Think of it as a mini balloon payment.

Mortgage calculators use a mathematical 360 days only because it's easier to divide. What other reason would there be? That doesn't mean the amortization tables for a year, or two, or five are going to be correct. That's why 360-day mortgage calculators only produce "estimates".

[frobn]

Is this the right place for this one.

I'd like to publish these real estate calculators but my collection is small. Naturally they will be free of charge but if anyone has a specific idea as to what a calculator suite should have then please feel free to suggest any.

I sent you code for several RE related calcultors. I had wanted to convert them to PHP myself but haven't found the time. Here is something I have done with four calculators using Ajax.

[langard]

My compliments on your calculators frobn. Very nice work. They're the best I've seen. Using AJAX makes them so much easier for people to use.

When you said you wanted to convert them to PHP, did you mean just converting the actual calc functions and then have AJAX call a particular function from the page, depending upon which type of calculation they're requesting?

[dxc]

Here is a flash loan calculator I built recently.