I am flashing back to an episode of MASH where Colonel Potter learns his wife has scrimped to pay off the mortgage. She then sends him the mortgage paper and he has a little ceremony to burn it.
Well it wasn't quite that dramatic.
We were down to $2000 ish on the mortgage. There was enough in the buffer they build for our 2020 property tax to pay this off with a little extra left over. The trick - I would have to save between now and June 30 to have the money to pay our property tax.
Compared to many of you our taxes are lower which is due to living in a small house in a small town in the middle of the prairie.
DH and I had done the calculations and we figured we could do it. Redirect the mortgage payments and use the bit of left over and voila!
I signed the necessary papers and they would have the documents mailed to me. Much less exciting than Colonel Potter but still.
I am now the owner of two houses with no mortgage. Just tons of work to be done and the bills that go to maintain it.
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