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Originally Posted by SusanP
The sooner your mortgage is paid off the sooner you have that much more available income to invest otherwise
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This is generally a flawed plan because mortgages are typically "cheap" money and you can usually do better by investing and taking advantage of the wonders of compound interest. One thing you can never, ever replace in your portfolio is the benefit of TIME. The later you start investing, the less you will end up with - period. In most cases, it makes more sense financially to keep the mortgage assuming it is at a decent fixed rate, and invest the difference.