{"id":15333,"date":"2022-03-14T04:15:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/?p=15333"},"modified":"2025-05-10T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:05:10","slug":"question-whats-the-fastest-way-to-pay-down-my-mortgage-early-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id15333-question-whats-the-fastest-way-to-pay-down-my-mortgage-early-2.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Fastest Way to Pay Down the Mortgage Early?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/homes-monopoly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15347\" title=\"homes monopoly\" src=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/homes-monopoly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/homes-monopoly.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/homes-monopoly-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a>Vanilla or chocolate?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id1442-credit-or-debit-which-is-better-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Credit or debit<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><em>House Hunters<\/em> or <em>Property Brothers<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Some questions can be answered with relative ease by almost everyone.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id1131-12-good-reasons-why-you-should-and-should-not-pay-off-your-mortgage-early-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paying down mortgages early<\/a>, a much more perplexing question for many current and aspiring homeowners is whether it&#8217;s better to make a single large extra principal payment annually &#8211; or 12 smaller ones each month.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; is one method better than another? And does one prepayment method save more interest and result in a quicker loan payoff date than the other?<\/p>\n<p>To answer those questions, let&#8217;s do a little math using a couple of hypothetical scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s assume we have a 30-year loan for $200,000 at an interest rate of 6%. After crunching the numbers (and rounding them just a bit for clarity) we get the following results:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15337\" style=\"width: 547px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prepayment-30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15337\" class=\"wp-image-15337\" title=\"Prepayment 30\" src=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prepayment-30-1024x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prepayment-30-1024x210.png 1024w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prepayment-30-300x61.png 300w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prepayment-30.png 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It would take 297 months (24.75 years) to retire your loan if you make one extra payment of $1200 annually. On the other hand, choosing to make 12 additional monthly principal payments of $100 each year would allow the loan to be paid off two months sooner, saving an additional $1830 interest in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, over a 24-year period, that&#8217;s almost a wash considering the amount of interest paid overall, not to mention <a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id2119-looking-for-inflation-its-hiding-in-smaller-package-sizes-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inflation&#8217;s insidious impact<\/a> on the dollar&#8217;s purchasing power over time.<\/p>\n<p>Surprised?<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know what you&#8217;re thinking: <em>But Len, is the impact any different for a shorter loan?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not really.<\/p>\n<p>Again, let&#8217;s assume we have the same loan amount and interest rate as in our first example, however this time we have <a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id13347-15-vs-30-yr-loans-the-added-cost-to-retire-a-30-year-loan-in-15-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 15-year mortgage<\/a>. Here are the results:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15339\" style=\"width: 547px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prepayment-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15339\" class=\"wp-image-15339\" title=\"Prepayment 15\" src=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prepayment-15-1024x204.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prepayment-15-1024x204.png 1024w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prepayment-15-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prepayment-15.png 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As you can see, no matter which path you choose, it&#8217;s essentially the same answer once again, although the difference between the two methods is even less pronounced with the shorter loan. In this case, making 12 equal extra payments of $140.66 every month would retire the loan in 160 months (13.33 years) &#8212; that&#8217;s one month sooner than making single annual payments of $1688.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it. When it comes to making extra mortgage principal payments, there is very little difference between the two methods, regardless of whether or not you have a <a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id1626-the-15-year-vs-30-year-mortgage-debate-why-30-is-better-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">30-year or 15-year mortgage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I have to go downstairs; the Honeybee wants me to order us a pizza for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is, I&#8217;m not sure if I should make it sausage or pepperoni.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">Photo Credit: Woodley Wonderworks<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanilla or chocolate? Credit or debit? House Hunters or Property Brothers? Some questions can be answered with relative ease by almost everyone. 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