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By paying his mortgage off early, he saves $14,050 in interest payments. He also saves 5 years of mortgage payments! Boom! (But he also had to save $80,760 to pay it off.)
Let’s look what would happen if Shawn were to pay off his mortgage earlier! In this example, Shawn pays an additional $10,000 at the end of Year 2 for his mortgage.