herbie herbie:
I actually paid it off twice, I remortgaged and remodelled 6 years ago.
It's easy if you live where prices are reasonable. Even at 6% like the last time.
People in Toronto/Vancouver are completely fucked though. Your homes are not worth $1M+, there are just a lot of fools and the desperate around who'll pay that.
The assessments of property values are ridiculous around here and have been for a few years now. I bought my place in 2009 and my current assessment is way more than double now since it was then. No fucking way I'd pay that now for what I have, yet, some people have even down the hall from me. I couldn't believe the selling price, even if it was all remodelled all "pretty", I mean... more than double in 13 years... wow.
I'm not too worried about my renewal and like I said it'll be a matter of deciding whether to do it earlier and whether to to lock in fixed, which makes me more comfortable than a variable, but perhaps on a 2yr rather than 3yr.