Five Ways To Pay off Your Mortgage Faster - If you are in a financial position where you are able to pay off your mortgage quickly without sacrificing other aspects of your life, there are a few ways to accomplish this. Seek advice from a trusted mortgage advisor, to see what you can and cannot do. Here are a few of the most popular options.

1. Increase your payment schedule.
2. Make lump sum payments.
3. Shorten the time frame of your loan.
4. Increase your payments.
5. Refinance at a lower interest rate, but pay the same amount each month.

To pay off your loan quicker you can make extra principal payments on your loan each year. You can do this monthly (which is the most benenficial) or you can do it bi-monthly, once per quarter, every 6 months or just 1 time per year. There are some people who apply their income tax return each year to their mortgage to pay it down and pay it off quicker. Others make extra payments every time their bonus comes in from work each quarter and yet some just make a $25, $50, or $100 extra payment to their mortgage each month so that they will have their home mortgage loan paid off faster.

You can pay off your mortgage quicker by signing up for a biweekly or accelerated mortgage payment program. This will allow you to make 1 extra payment per year and will end up saving you thousands of dollars in mortgage interest while cutting years off of your loan. These programs are most beneficial on a 30 year mortgage and you can cut up to 8 or 9 years off of your loan by getting on a bi-weekly or equity accelerated mortgage program. These programs will not only help you save a lot of money and cut the term of your loan down but they will also help you build equity into your home faster and lower your effective rate.

Payments on Interest Only loans build no equity. One way to help pay off the mortgage quickly is to put the savings from the interest only payments into an bank account or other investment that earns a higher rate of return than your mortgage interest rate.

If you decide to go with a bi-weekly payment make sure to ask when the payment is posted as many mortgage companies will post the payment only after a full payment is submitted.
They may also charge you a fee to do a biweekly mortgage payment so ask your mortgage professional for all of your options.

Making a 13th payment towards principal reduction every year shortens a 30-year fixed rate mortgage by about 5 years. If the monthly payments are set up to include the escrows of homeowner insurance payments and property tax, then depending on the amount of the escrows, the homeowner can pay off a 30-year mortgage even sooner. One should always check the mortgage statements to ensure that the extra payment is applied to pay down the principal, as some banks would to apply the extra payment towards the next payment due and simply not bill the homeowner for the next month.

Refinancing into a 15 year loan will force you to make higher payments. However it will also force you to payoff your house faster!

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