Rule of 3 Calculator (With “Invert” option). submitted by /u/W-P-A

Googles home purchase budget calculator is crazy, right? TLDR: Would you purchase a home at the price suggested by google’s home budget calculator? I’ve logged and charted every single transaction I’ve made for a year. I’ve forecasted financial scenarios such as job loss, repairs, replacements, and my own conclusion of a home purchase budget. This isn’t my first time seeing what Google suggests my p…

Is there an investment calculator that simulates the returns based on real historical market performance? Most of the interest rate calculator are rather simplistic in that it takes a fixed rate of return as input and shows what the returns will be in the future. However, the actual market performance is not fixed and there will be down-years where my capital will go down significantly in some years. Is there a calculator where I can simulate what a…

Why does it seem like forbearance had zero impact on my student loans? Is the calculator I used wrong? I began paying my student loans in February 2019, so 4 years and 5 months ago. I also paid them all throughout the Covid forbearance period. I just put the current loan information into a calculator to see when I’ll pay them off and it said I’m going to be paying them for another 5.5 years. If this is accurate I’m not sure what I did wrong as pa…