Finally, after 15 years, my farmis paid off. I just bought a new (used) car, but I’ll pay that off in a trice. I have a rental property, but the rent is approximately half of that mortgage (the other have is paying for the car). Soon, besides the rental property, I’ll be debt free. Now if my 401K hadn’t last 15% of it’s value this month, I’d be doing great.
Congrats! We’ve got 12 more years on ours, and that’s after refinancing to knock a few years off. Our mortgage company seems to think we should refinance it for another 30 years and use the equity for FUN!
Unless you are just about to retire, with no other income, don’t worry about this. It’ll come back up again. Do not obsess about this, and start watching it obsessively – you’ll tend to start panic selling (at low points) and mess up the power of long-term investing.
My suggestion is to only look at the valuation of your investments as many times annually as your age in decades. So if you’re in your 40’s, check your investment value 4 times a year.
P.S. That house is nice, but why do you have it painted like a barn?
Red paint is for barns. Houses are white with green or blue shutters.
(But I think we had this discussion here before, and couldn’t convince you.)
Congrats! It feels great to pay off your house. We paid fairly aggressively and paid ours off in 13 years. We’ve now been debt free for several years and have so much cash on hand, we can almost buy a rental house outright. We should’ve bought one two years ago before the prices skyrocketed again but we weren’t ready. Now, they are starting to fall so we are hoping they fall more when they all come on the market in the spring.