{"id":572,"date":"2025-11-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:00:00","slug":"paying-off-mortgage-early-6-ways-and-the-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/paying-off-mortgage-early-6-ways-and-the-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying Off Mortgage Early: 6 Ways And The Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>To pay off a mortgage early, consider these six strategies: <\/p>\n<p>1. Make biweekly payments to reduce the loan term and save on interest.<br \/>\n2. Refinance to a shorter loan term for lower interest rates and payments.<br \/>\n3. Reevaluate your budget to free up funds for extra payments.<br \/>\n4. Round up monthly payments to the nearest hundred to reduce interest.<br \/>\n5. Direct extra payments toward the principal to decrease the loan balance.<br \/>\n6. Make an extra annual payment using bonuses or tax refunds to save on interest and shorten the term.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketmoney.com\/learn\/homeownership\/how-to-pay-off-mortgage-early\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To pay off a mortgage early, consider these six strategies: 1. Make biweekly payments to reduce the loan term and save on interest. 2. Refinance to a shorter loan term for lower interest rates and payments. 3. Reevaluate your budget to free up funds for extra payments. 4. Round up monthly payments to the nearest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}