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March 24th, 2016

315-Is Mortgage Acceleration (Replacing Your Traditional Mortgage with a HELOC) Really a Good Idea? Interview with Bill Westrom from www.TruthInEquity.com

  1. 315-Is Mortgage Acceleration (Replacing Your Traditional Mortgage with a HELOC) Really a Good Idea? Interview with Bill Westrom from www.TruthInEquity.com Joshua Sheats 1:36:24

On Episode 133 of the show, I had a listener ask me for my opinion regarding the concept of “mortgage acceleration.”

Basically, it’s the idea of taking out a HELOC on your house instead of (or in addition to) a traditionally amortizing mortgage, putting all your income against the HELOC and then paying your bills out of the HELOC.

The key idea with this strategy is that the average daily balance of your account is lower, reducing your interest payments.

In Episode 133, I was critical of the idea and the book that espoused it.

Today, I’ve brought the author of that chapter in the book on to defend the idea of mortgage acceleration as vigorously as possible.

Enjoy the show!

Joshua

Joshua Sheats Teacher, Host, Broadcaster, Entrepreneur

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, is the world's leading authority on integrating lifestyle goals and money goals without conflict. He teaches normal people how to seamlessly connect the science of financial planning with the joy of goal achievement.

Joshua is dedicated to helping normal people achieve financial freedom by merging creative (and crazy) ideas from the world of personal finance with the academic integrity of formal financial planning. He simplifies complex money topics and makes boring financial mumbo-jumbo less boring.