Your interest rate is 5.75% and the loan was orignially $141,000. The prinicpal and interest payment is $822.84 and after making 60 payments, your remaining loan balance is $130,794.68. The payment I came up with for my prinicipal and interest in order to shorten my term is $919.29. You have add that to my escrow which is $261.13, which would make my total monthly payment $1,180.42. I'll end up increasing my payment by $95.44 a month. The formula I was given in class was very hard for me and it took me a while to actually get use to use it, so I decided to go ahead and use an Excel spreadsheet to come up with my answer. I took a class back in high school for Microsoft Office, so I do still remember some things about Excel. The formula I used was PMT = (240, 5.75/12, 130.794.68) and 240 equals the number of remaining monthly payments, 5.75/12 equals the monthly interest cost and $130,794.68 is my remaining balance. After realizing how much of a