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Why APR is Higher Than The Interest Rate

By Scott Sheldon / January 19, 2013

The annual percentage rate is always higher than the actual interest rate, because the annual percentage rate takes into consideration all of the costs associated with financing including prepaid items such as property taxes, hazard insurance and mortgage interest lumps them all together against your loan and re-amortizes  the figures over the life of the…

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