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Just joining in on these forum things. Been reading the information on this site for awhile.
My Mortgage currently has 19y3w left.(According to Bank). Started this process of buying a house 3 years ago, 25 year mortgage. Have reduced it by 23 weeks over the last 4 months(was at 19y40w on July 22).
Started buying house when I had a good paying job. Was laid off a year after I started buying the house. Had a couple different jobs over the last couple years, that just managed to let me pay my bills. So for awhile was only making payments. Now have a good paying job, so I am able to make extra payments again.
Hoping to have mortgage paid off in 10 years from now, if all things go as planned.
Just joining in on these forum things. Been reading the information on this site for awhile.
My Mortgage currently has 19y3w left.(According to Bank). Started this process of buying a house 3 years ago, 25 year mortgage. Have reduced it by 23 weeks over the last 4 months(was at 19y40w on July 22).
Started buying house when I had a good paying job. Was laid off a year after I started buying the house. Had a couple different jobs over the last couple years, that just managed to let me pay my bills. So for awhile was only making payments. Now have a good paying job, so I am able to make extra payments again.
Hoping to have mortgage paid off in 10 years from now, if all things go as planned.
That's a great plan, GT. Targeting 13 years of payment for a 25-year mortgage.
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$2600 additional principal payment this month, good to knock out 5 amortization payments. Usually I double the payment at $1470 but a bit extra was left over this month. About 5 years left give or take on the mortgage.
I'm kicking off 2015 with a psychological tactic : Forget the total debt balance for now and just focus paying on a smaller portion of it.
So my new debt amount I will be focusing on is . . . . $43,000. I plan to pay this in 2.5 years.
Focused Debt : $43K
to here :
Focused Debt : $0K
It really helps compartmentalizing the big amount into smaller chunks psychologically so much so that I am going to start another one, albeit smaller so that it's FUNNER. I'm starting it Nov 2016 and targeting to complete April 2018.
It really helps compartmentalizing the big amount into smaller chunks psychologically so much so that I am going to start another one, albeit smaller so that it's FUNNER. I'm starting it Nov 2016 and targeting to complete April 2018.
Great job TFQ!! Did you do anything special to reduce the debt? Like the snowball method or hunting for extra money to pay off the balance?
The last thing we did was refinacne to a 10 year mortgage about 4 years ago.
We just cash flowed about 40k in upgrades (Roof, AC, Floors and Repainting)
I hope to save enough for a lump sum payoff in the next year or so. Goal is to have it paid off before we turn 40.
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