It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,

investing, taxes.

You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

This next question is from Mary.

Mary says, my husband says to attack the mortgage and pay off the house early.

I disagree.

I disagree and want to add more money towards our kids' 529 accounts.

Max, I'll offer our retirement accounts.

Which one is better?

He's in his mid-40s.

I am in my mid-30s.

We've got two different ages here to take an account.

Do you pay mortgage, attack that and knock that out?

Or do you fund 529s and how do you decide which of those to do?

Well Mary's given us a few more breadcrumbs here that actually makes this a very intriguing

question because I can already tell based upon how Mary has structured this question because

we know with the financial order of operations, you don't even really consider mortgage pay

off until you get to step 9, which is low interest step, which is what mortgage debt

is.

This is 2-3% range.

Well then Mary, through another interesting thing is talking about funding the kids.

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