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First, read our review of “Burn Your Mortgage” »

Making the Most of Your Mortgage Payments
Achieving Financial Freedom Sooner
Have you ever wondered what the origin of the word mortgage is? The English word comes from the French mort-gage, which translates as “death-pledge.” French peasants literally worked them- selves to death to own a home. (Boy, they weren’t kidding about a mortgage being a life sentence!)
Your mortgage may seem like a death pledge, but it doesn’t have to be. In the previous chapter you learned everything you needed to know to find the best mortgage for you. In this chapter you’ll learn what you need to know to pay it off, so that you can have a mort- gage-burning party of your own.
Seven Simple Ways to Pay Down Your Mortgage Sooner
This is the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Below you’ll find simple ways to burn your mortgage. To make things easier, we’ll use the same fictional mortgage in each example discussed below. So, imagine you’re buying a condo for $375,000 with a 20% down payment
($75,000), leaving you with a $300,000 mortgage…

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Here are the top 10 great things about the Republicans’ proposed replacement for Obamacare:

Freedom-loving Americans finally unchained from the tyrannical shackles of not having to suffer painfully.

You remain 100 per cent covered if your pre-existing condition is death.

“Cancer” will henceforth be spelled as “kancer,” because laughter is the best medicine.

Weird fine print: All medical pamphlets must now be illustrated with photos of Paul Ryan’s body.

Reducing financial assistance to people with low incomes is only a problem if you’re a person with a low income. Think about it.

More than 100 chronic conditions now classified under the category “Walk It Off.”

Effective immediately, most medical procedures can be paid for in cash, tax credits or organs.

Health care CEOs will get richer, which is what working-class Americans wanted when they voted for Trump, isn’t it?

Stop your bellyaching: You’ve got two kidneys, two lungs and two hearts for a reason…

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