How to Save Thousands of Dollars in Interest and Pay Your Mortgage off Faster

There are a few easy ways to make extra principle payments that can save you a ton of money in interest expenses and get you mortgage-free sooner than you thought possible. Here are a few simple strategies you can use:

1. Round your monthly payment up

The results of this simple strategy can save you a fortune and drastically reduce the length of your mortgage.

As an example, if your monthly mortgage payments were $734 dollars a month, but you rounded it up to $800 per month, you would save more than $48,000 in interest payments, and reduce the length of your mortgage by 7 years!

2. Make One Time Pre-Payments Using Your Income Tax Refund

This is an easy way to save money and shorten your mortgage. For example, if you have a $100,000 mortgage, and you have a $1000 tax refund this year, you take apply that refund to your mortgage. Over time, this will save you more than $8600 and shave 1 year and 1 month off your mortgage! An amazing result from a simple strategy.

3. Choose a 20 Year Mortgage

If you can afford it, you are far better off getting a 15 or 20 year mortgage instead of 25 or 30 year.  It won't cost you much more, and the interest savings are truly incredible.

If you have a mortgage of $400,000 at 3.3% interest over 25 years, your monthly payment would be $1,955.09.  Compared to if you have the same $400,000 at 3.3% interest over 20 years, your payment would be $2,274.37.  The payment difference would be $319.28.  Check out the table below to see how you could save THOUSANDS on interest over the course of your mortgage.

Wouldn't it be nice to be mortgage free 5 YEARS SOONER?!

Using these strategies is the easiest way to reduce your interest expenses and shorten your mortgage period.

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