By the magic of Twitter I learned from sizeof about a contest for the “sexiest mortgage calculator”. While my graphics skills leave much to wish for and I won’t participate, I found some cool links for mortgage calculators out there. I wish I knew about these when I was buying a house.

• http://www.mortgagecalculator.org
• http://www.drcalculator.com/mortgage/
• http://www.mlcalc.com
• http://www.zillow.com/mortgage/calculator/Calculators.htm
• http://www.agcalc.com/MortgageCalculator.aspx
• http://www.loancalculator.ms/
• My mortgage calculator and comparer

Edit: I did decide to participate and while I did not win, I had a lot of fun learning Silverlight 3. Here are the submissions that won. Pretty cool, I must admit. They all tend to use standard JavaScript, Google Charts and Flash.

• 1st place - http://www.mortgageloanplace.com/mortgage-calculator.php (former site)
• 2nd place – http://ditio.net/mortgage/
• 3rd place - http://cullenbreedlove.com/mortgage_calc.php

Congrats to the winners!