<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Tom Albrecht wrote:</div>
Was it Dave Ramsey?
I kind of think so, I think he has a Q&A column in the Rochester paper every weekend (I’m a 35-year-old “millennial” and still love reading the paper-it’s the way I was raised).
Yeah 15-year-mortgage sounds great, but so does paying cash for a house and paying zero interest ever…neither will happen for me. Great advice, but I think it’s socially acceptable and reasonable to have a 30-year mortgage.
With today’s bank rates even a 30 year loan is attractive, and you don’t have to let it go the full thirty years. Others will remember this as well, when I started my business and bought my first house rates where 18 percent. Yes, 18 percent! People where getting 10 percent on savings accounts, close 12 percent on CDs. Made a promise to myself someday I would have a very large savings account and get interest on it…. I do have that savings account and what do I get on it?