How to be Mortgage Free in Five to Seven Years – Jordan Goodman | PREI 051
Passive Real Estate Investing
Real Estate Investing with Marco Santarelli, Investor and Entrepreneur.
4.6 • 968 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to passive real estate investing, the show where busy people like you |
| 0:04.7 | learn how to build substantial passive income while creating wealth for the |
| 0:08.5 | long term. And now here's your host, Marco Santorelli. Welcome to Passive Real Estate Investing. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm your host, Marco Santorelli. |
| 0:18.0 | And today we have a very exciting episode because we're going to tell you how you can cut your mortgage down |
| 0:24.0 | and have it paid off in about one third the time. |
| 0:27.0 | Typically that's going to be five to seven years, but it could be seven to nine. |
| 0:31.0 | In either case, it's going to be about one third of the time. Our goal here is to share |
| 0:35.3 | the knowledge and methods of actually owning your properties and your home, mortgage-free, much sooner than you |
| 0:40.5 | imagined. So think about this interesting statistic. In 1929, only 2% of Americans |
| 0:47.4 | had a mortgage on their home. In 1962, 98% of Americans had a mortgage on their home. |
| 0:55.0 | That's a huge difference. |
| 0:57.0 | So take a look at the history of mortgages in America, |
| 1:00.0 | and you'll start to understand why this has changed so radically. |
| 1:04.0 | Do you know where the idea of the amortization concept came from? |
| 1:08.0 | It was actually developed after the Great Depression as a way to stimulate home ownership and of course bank's profitability. |
| 1:15.5 | You know that is still true today. |
| 1:17.8 | Until that time most loans were five years and interest only and then they had a balloon |
| 1:22.0 | payment at the end of the five-year term. |
| 1:24.0 | Bankers didn't determine that payments were a problem. |
| 1:28.0 | They thought that those monthly payments were actually the biggest hindrance to someone owning the home. |
| 1:33.5 | So what they did is they dragged out the mortgage for as long as they possibly could to generate |
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