A simple mortgage payment calculator, complete with amortization table.
This is a very simple web application designed to be quick, easy, and
unobtrusive. A general web search for "mortgage calculator" yields
results of varying quality. Many are tied to mortgage brokers; at a
minimum most are littered with advertisements. Some ask you to input
personal information! Some are server-side scripted, meaning they are
likely collecting any and all data they can... the list of grievances is
endless.
I'm happy to present this simple tool, which has the following features:
- Simple JavaScript that runs on *your* browser. This is a
statically-generated site; by design I don't have the ability to log any
submitted information.
- Advertisement-free. I pay for this site out of my own pocket as
party of my "hobby" budget. Some revenue would be nice, but for
now I'm remaining principled.
- No cookies or other tracking mechanisms. I get nothing out of
this, so it would just be more work for me.
- Simple, open site design. You can do a Ctrl-U to see this page's
source, and then in turn you can see the minimal JavaScript used
to do nothing more than compute payment info and the amortization
table.