Your net savings is essentially the rate of inflation. Let the government and your lender deal with that...

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Jul 24, 2017
1:19:33pm

mulletino All-American

especially as inflation increases which it undoubtedly will in the near future.

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mulletino

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Thoughts on this approach to paying off a mortgage early?

supertux

7/24/17 12:57pm

Cash flow considerations. Stocks and bonds are much more liquid than a home, and

chilango

7/24/17 1:05pm

Paying off your mortgage, given the net savings, is a poor financial decision IMO.

mulletino

7/24/17 1:08pm

Oops. Meant for supertux.

mulletino

7/24/17 1:08pm

100% Agree with Mulletino on this.

TonyStark

7/24/17 1:18pm

Your net savings is essentially the rate of inflation. Let the government and your lender deal with that...

mulletino

7/24/17 1:19pm

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fumblerooski

7/24/17 1:37pm

I look at it this way

CocaColaRecovery

7/24/17 1:46pm

Reasonable alternative to my suggestion...more conservative, but effective

Iman23

7/24/17 1:48pm

Kinda agree. I say stretch out the mortgage as long as possible. And yet...

frontrowcougar

7/24/17 2:16pm

Liquidity is the big one for me...once it goes to pay the debt down it's hard to

Iman23

7/24/17 1:09pm

I agree in a way. I think if you have a chance to knock it out, do it.

CocaColaRecovery

7/24/17 1:52pm

Pay the mortgage down and get a low interest HELOC. That is a big emergency fund

YouPuntYouDye

7/24/17 2:13pm

For as conservative as you must be with your comments here, I'd say that's a pretty risky plan for Average Joe.

mulletino

7/24/17 5:50pm

lots of people don't consider real estate as assets unless you get a net return

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