10/06/2026
Looking for a home? Here's the quick math buyers need to see 👇🏼🧐
Seller offers you a choice: $15,000 off the price, or $15,000 toward a 2-1 buydown....📊
The price cut saves you roughly $100/month. For 30 years. Sounds nice.
The buydown drops your payment by roughly $500/month in year one and ~$250/month in year two right when moving costs, furniture, and real life are hitting hardest. That's about $9,500 back in your pocket in the first 24 months. 👀
The break-even? Around 7½ years. And since most buyers refinance or move before then a refi wipes out the price cut's long tail, while the buydown savings are already banked the buydown wins in the real world almost every time.
Same $15,000. Very different outcome. ✅
This is why "what's your rate?" is the wrong first question. The right one is "how do we structure this?" and that's exactly what I do. 📲