Future value... I think?

aholtz

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Okay, so I have a few problems dealing with "buying a house." There are six parts to the question and I'm on the sixth part so I'll add some additional information that I have from other parts of the question.

1F. Most people choose to put away 12 equal amounts in an escrow account to pay property taxes. How much would your monthly bill be to pay your mortgage and property taxes?

I feel like this would be a future value problem since you are paying many payments.
A= m*((((1+i)^N)-1)/i) where i=r/n and N=nt

The mortgage amount [I believe] is $213,800 and the property taxes are $5032.
n=12, t=1

However, while I know that I'm trying to find m, I cannot for the life of me figure out what r is [the % compounded monthly] since it's not given in the problem.

Any ideas/suggestions? Or anything I'm doing incorrectly?
 
I suggest that you do not again post the same question in multiple locations. It's not just bad form, it wastes the time of volunteers. You don't want to do that, do you?

The correct answer remains that you need more information.

No worries. Learning how things work is allowed. :)
 
Oh sorry, I honestly thought this was a different forum all together.
They had the same layouts but different urls.
My mistake.
Thanks for the help!
 
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