How Can You Begin Aggressively Paying off Your Mortgage?

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I'm often asked when the best time is to aggressively pay down a mortgage, so today I want to share some advice for those of you who are looking to do just that.

Truthfully, now is the best time to start aggressively paying down your interest rate. If you've gotten a mortgage in the last few years, you were probably able to get an incredibly low interest rate. In fact, it's probably somewhere around 4%, which is historically low when you consider the fact that rates are typically around 8%. When you have these ultra low interest rates, you are able to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars for close to nothing!

If you have credit card debt, or other high interest debts, you need to pay those off first. You need to pay that debt off before you start paying off your low interest mortgage payments. Once you've paid off the highest interest debt you have, take the monthly payment you were putting toward it and combine it with the minimum payment you're making on the next highest interest debt. This will effectively double up your payments and allow you to pay off your debts a whole lot faster.

Once you've gone down the line, doubling up payments on your lower interest debts as you pay off the higher interest debts, it's time to take all the money you have budgeted to pay those debts and combine it with your minimum monthly payment on your mortgage. Most lenders have a clause in the mortgage that tells you your pre-payment conditions. Most lenders will allow you to pay a certain percentage of the mortgage amount every year. This could allow you to pay off your mortgage twice as fast, saving you thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars in the process.

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