{"id":698986,"date":"2010-03-23T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003634"},"modified":"2010-03-23T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:04:01","slug":"when-should-i-make-extra-mortgage-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/698986","title":{"rendered":"When Should I Make Extra Mortgage Payments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/3-23-2010%204-00-48%20PM-thumb-238x157-38504.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>We get a surprising amount of letters from people who regularly make extra mortgage payments. (Extra payments sometimes confuse the bank and causes headaches.) It seems like it would always a good idea to pay off debt if you can afford it, but with current mortgage rates as low as they are.. does it still make sense?<\/p>\n<p>The NYT&#8217;s Ron Lieber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/20\/your-money\/mortgages\/20money.html?src=me&#038;ref=your-money\">breaks it down<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The answer depends on two things: how likely you are to leave the extra money in savings and how good it would feel to wipe your debt out years earlier than your mortgage requires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does making extra mortgage payments work for you? If so, why? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/20\/your-money\/mortgages\/20money.html?src=me&#038;ref=your-money\">When Not to Pay Down a Mortgage<\/a> [NYT]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get a surprising amount of letters from people who regularly make extra mortgage payments. (Extra payments sometimes confuse the bank and causes headaches.) It seems like it would always a good idea to pay off debt if you can afford it, but with current mortgage rates as low as they are.. does it still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VPY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}