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Residential calculator videos

Start Here, then 11 short parts. Free, no sign-up.

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Getting Started

A quick tour: the welcome guide, the results bar with GDS and TDS, the six steps, Late Night Broker Mode, the question marks and Need help.

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PART 1

Income

How Broker's Tips and Notes work, then enter each applicant's income: income types, pay frequency, gross amounts and the annual conversion.

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PART 2

Liabilities

Credit cards and lines of credit by balance, secured versus unsecured lines of credit, car and personal loans with their actual payments, student loans and repayment choices.

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PART 3A

Properties Owned: Add a property

The first of four short videos. Add a property your client already owns, choose the occupancy, and enter the carrying costs that go into TDS. No other property or rental income? Skip to Part 4.

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PART 3B

Properties Owned: Rental properties

Add a rental with its monthly rent, ownership percent and inclusion percent, and use the include rental income switch.

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PART 3C

Properties Owned: Add-Back vs Offset

See how the Add-Back and Offset methods treat rental income and carrying costs, how each one changes TDS, and how switching to Offset can help on a B lender file.

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PART 3D

Properties Owned: Suites and more properties

Homes with a rental suite, adding and removing properties, collapsing cards, and reading the summary bar.

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PART 4A

Property

Start with Max Purchasing Power to see what your client qualifies for, then describe the property: purpose, type, province, price, down payment, rate, amortization and stress test.

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PART 4B

Results

Read the payment, lender lane, GDS and TDS, then use Max Purchasing Power, the maximum purchase price table, cash required and transfer tax estimates.

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PART 5

Scenarios

Compare three scenarios side by side by changing the down payment, rate and amortization.

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PART 6

Print, Save and Reopen

Print or save the PDF report, save an encrypted application file with a password, and reopen it later. Nothing is uploaded.

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PART 7

Your PDF Report

A page by page look at the three page file printout: the client summary, the Broker Reference Sheet, and the document checklist built from your client's income.

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Next stepBroker Training CourseNow learn how we use the calculator to qualify a client on the first call. Four sessions and eight practice files. Free, no sign-up. Go to the course