Posts Tagged ‘30-year mortgage’
How Jeff in Virginia Used His Existing Savings to Cut His Interest by More Than 50%
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? I bought a home in 2008 for $475,000, with primary (80%) and secondary (15%) mortgages. I re-financed the primary twice, ending up with a 15-year note. We moved in the beginning of 2016, but kept the original property as a rental. As of…
Read MoreHow Erich in Colorado Paid Off $31,000 of Principal in 3 Months (After 3 Years of Mortgage Payments, He Owed More Than He Started with)
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? I had a 30-year mortgage on a house that I originally purchased for $372,000. Due to a couple of refinances (chasing interest rates), after three years of making payments, I actually owed $377,000 on the house when I began the RYM program. What…
Read MoreHow Matthew in Utah Paid Off 7.6x as Much Principal in 3 Months as in 12 Months with a Mortgage
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We were first-time home owners who got into a 30-year mortgage with a starting balance of $400,900, paying Private Mortgage Insurance. When we joined RYM, we had $398,000 in remaining principal balance after paying our monthly payment for a year. What is the…
Read MoreHow Richard in Tennessee Paid Off $37,720 in 4 Months — Plus Saved $25,200 in Mortgage Insurance
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? Prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage (RYM) in November of 2017, my wife and I had just closed on a brand new home with a 30-year conventional mortgage at a 3.875% interest rate. We put 5% down at closing and had a…
Read MoreHow Bridget in Tennessee Weathered Back-to-Back Financial Crisis by Tapping Her HELOC
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We had a 30-year mortgage fixed rate mortgage with a low interest rate (around 4 percent) and a starting balance of $220,000. When we joined RYM we had about $214,000 remaining in principal balance after paying our monthly payment for 4 years. What is…
Read MoreHow Laura in Washington Paid Off $49,000 in 7 Months — and Replaced Two Mortgages with One HELOC
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We had a 30-year mortgage with a starting balance of $185,000. We also had a 30-year mortgage on an investment property with a starting balance of $100,000 balance. When we joined RYM, we owed $180,000 on our primary residence and $80,000 on our…
Read MoreWhy Andrew in Maryland Says Replace Your Mortgage Saved His Marriage
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? My wife and I had a 30-year mortgage. We were about 2 years into a refi with Amerihome. We had $482,000 in debt at 3.8%. Our house was increasing in value, yet it looked impossible to get at its value and do something…
Read MoreWhy Ann in Utah Was Worried About Rising Interest Rates… Until She Did the Math
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We had a 30-year mortgage with a balance of $310,000. We had moved a lot in previous 16 years, so the mortgage was six months old with no end in sight for payments. Lots of interest paid for years on home loans and…
Read MoreHow Ton in Illinois Paid Down $73,000 in 12 Months and Bought a Four-Unit Investment Property
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We had a 30-year mortgage with a balance of $158,000. When we joined RYM, I refinanced the mortgage into a HELOC for $202,000, and we almost maxed out the HELOC.(bumping up the balance to $200,000). What is the current status of your HELOC…
Read MoreHow Alan in Utah Boosted His Credit Score to 840 to Pay Off His House Even Faster
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? At age 57, we had our original 30-year mortgage, which started with $465,000 (May 2016). We had 28 years remaining at $461,000 when I took the deep dive into RYM. I found RYM in October 2017 and finally signed up in December of…
Read MoreHow Ricardy in Florida Lowered His Balance by $8,000 in One Month
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We had a 30-year mortgage with a starting balance of $343,000. When we started talking with RYM, we had $342,000 in the remaining principal balance after paying our monthly payment for four or five months. Unfortunately, six months before starting with RYM, our…
Read MoreHow Peter in Arizona Refinanced His Rental Properties and Can Now Shop for More
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? Prior to RYM, I had two rental properties, each on 30-year terms at 5.25% with about $42,000 balance on each after 7 years. I used the RYM strategy to refinance both properties into interest-only HELOCs at 5.75%, which unlocked about $35,000 of equity…
Read MoreHow Brett in Colorado Is Paying Off His Home in Less Than 10 Years — While Teaching His Kids This Smarter Way
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We had a conventional 30-year mortgage with a starting balance of $525,000. We really only had that for about 8 months before I saw RYM come across the weather channel app. That’s when I dove in and read everything and couldn’t quit reading…
Read MoreHow Stephanie in California Paid Off $30,000 on Her Home and Started Investing
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We had a 30-year mortgage with a $384,000 balance. What is the current status of your HELOC and how many months did it take you to achieve it? We have been using this strategy since February 2018. Our balance went down $30,000 the…
Read MoreHow Brad in Ohio Got a HELOC (Plus $8,000 for Home Improvements) Before His First Mortgage Payment Came Due
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We were midway through a Lease with Option to Purchase. I was able to buy the townhome for $195,000, BUT the appraisal came in at over $280,000… with an immediate $95,000 increase in our equity. What is the current status of your HELOC…
Read MoreHow Emma in Utah and Her Husband Bought a Bigger House And Became Investors…
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We sold our home in Texas that had a 20-year home-equity loan (recommended as a cash-out refinance after our remodel was finished) and moved to Utah. When we found RYM we were renting, looking to invest the money we netted from our home…
Read MoreHow Debbie in Florida Cut Her Principal Owed by $66,700 in 8 Months
What was your mortgage situation prior to starting with Replace Your Mortgage? We had a 30-year mortgage with a balance of $375,600 for our home that is appraised at $480,000. We bought our current home in May 2016 so we were less than 2 years into the mortgage. What is the current status of your…
Read MoreHow This Murfreesboro Realtor Is Beating The Banks And How He Reduced His Pay-off Date By 26 Years
Elliot Hallum, a Williamson county realtor, used to be the guy slaving away to pay off his mortgage (like most people) with dreams to own some investment properties; now he has access to cash for those promising real estate deals. No, he didn’t win the lottery or increase his income, he simply learned how to…
Read MoreHow This New York Man Reduced His Mortgage Pay-off Date From 27 Years To 58 Months
Congrats to Greg Michne and his wife Stacey who cut $25k off his mortgage in just 9 short months while still finding time to make maple syrup as a hobby. Yeah, the dude makes his own maple syrup! No, he didn’t win the lottery or increase his income, he simply learned how to better use…
Read MoreDave Ramsey Wrong On Home Equity Loans? Do You Agree With This?
Dave Ramsey is great but does he have it wrong on home equity loans? Should you pay cash for a home even if you can? We talk about it here. Hey – Do you agree with me? Disagree and think I am way off base? Transcript Hey, folks. This is Michael Lush. Recently came across an…
Read More3 Ways To Pay Off Your Mortgage Faster – Which One Works Best?
So you have decided to pay off your home faster so you are not burdened by your biggest debt. Awesome! Congrats on your decision. So which option works best? You could do bi-weekly payments. you could make extra payments. You could even switch home loans to a HELOC. Which one will work best for you?…
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