We’ve lived in our house for almost 17 years, saved up enough to finish the balance on our mortgage and now have zero house payments for hopefully the rest of our lives.
Feels good man.
That's awesome!!!! I can't imagine what that feeling must feel like!!!!
I can!
You'll get there one day Gary.
T-ski... welcome to the club
However, mrs.jingle and I really want (need) to re-model our kitchen - it's horribly small (for our purposes/liking), and directly attached to the main floor living room (open concept). Anyone watching TV either has to pause or crank the volume whenever someone else is in the kitchen doing anything even as simple as running the tap. So, what was initially just planned to be a kitchen (only) remodel is beginning to morph into a bigger renovation, adding a new master bedroom as a partial 2nd level (we're in a bungalow at the moment). We're gonna have a designer in to discuss options and costs in a couple of weeks.
Technically, we'd still be "mortgage" free, but we'd be debt financing it against our LOC.