{"id":671,"date":"2010-12-13T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2010-12-13T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T23:26:08","slug":"should-we-pay-off-our-mortgage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/should-we-pay-off-our-mortgage\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we pay off our mortgage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question: We currently have a $80,000 balance on the mortgage of our principal place of residence. We have $80,000 in a 5 per cent savings account with one of the big four banks and wonder how we could get more for it. Should we use the $80,000 savings to pay off our mortgage or we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/should-we-pay-off-our-mortgage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should we pay off our mortgage?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: We currently have a $80,000 balance on the mortgage of our principal place of residence. We have $80,000 in a 5 per cent savings account with one of the big four banks and wonder how we could get more for it. Should we use the $80,000 savings to pay off our mortgage or we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/should-we-pay-off-our-mortgage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should we pay off our mortgage?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,11,9],"tags":[167,168,153],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-questions-and-answers","category-strategies","category-tips","tag-pay-off-mortgage","tag-savings-account","tag-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentpropertycalculator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}