Mortgage Payoff Early: A Practical 2026 Roadmap
87% of 2025 borrowers paid above the best available mortgage rate for their profile, and that should change the way anyone thinks about mortgage payoff early. Paying extra on a bad loan is not the first move, it's the second. The first move is to fix the rate, then decide whether to accelerate principal, refinance, or invest the difference. That order matters because early payoff is a math problem, not a virtue test. A homeowner can throw cash at a mortgage for years and still lose to a si