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To: herkbird

Herkbird,

I understand that it can knock a few years off of your mortgage, but you have to look at the big picture.

In the year 2000, if you had placed an extra $100 a month on your mortgage for a 30 year mortgage you would have paid off the mortgage in approximately 23 years.

Your mortgage payment never goes down. It stays the same no matter how much extra you pay on it, so your $1000 house payment is due every month up to around 2023. Well in 2023 $1000 is worth a lot less than it is in the year 2000. So you save an extra $84,000 in house payments those last 7 years. If you invested that extra $100 a month into your 401K or another investment for 23 years, your going to have at least double your $84,000 you saved on paying off your house early.

Paying extra money on your principal of your home is not the best investment.


166 posted on 03/31/2005 11:02:18 AM PST by Skinn_dogg
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To: Skinn_dogg

Idiotic is probably too strong a word. It's whichever investment each investor is most comfortable with.


167 posted on 03/31/2005 11:42:22 AM PST by Skinn_dogg
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To: Skinn_dogg

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/calculators/mortgages.asp

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/amortization-calculator.asp


173 posted on 04/02/2005 9:39:53 AM PST by B4Ranch (The Minutemen will be doing a 30 day Neighborhood Watch Program in Arizona and New Mexico.)
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To: Skinn_dogg; herkbird
It is simply a numbers game. That extra $100/month paid on the principle will save you the interest you are paying on your mortgage. If you could have invested that money and received a bigger return than that would be the best option.

With the current mortgage rates being so low, it probably isn't hard to get a better ROI so paying your mortgage down quickly is not the best idea. Although that is a guaranteed return.
174 posted on 04/02/2005 10:43:37 AM PST by PeterPuck
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