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I’m 66. My mortgage is $250K and the rate is 3.4%. Would it be foolish to pay it off from my $770K investments?
Yahoo Finance·2025-09-26 21:20

“I don’t plan on taking Social Security until 70 and I will have one other small pension.” (Photo subject is a model.) - Getty Images/iStockphoto Dear Quentin, I’m 66 but I didn’t buy a house until later in life at 52. I refinanced a year later to 3.37% (30-year fixed) and have 250,000leftontheloanof250,000 left on the loan of 330,000. The house is worth 750,000.Ihavenootherdebt.Imstillworking,collectingonepensionalreadyandhavenottouchedretirementsavingsof750,000. I have no other debt. I’m still working, collecting one pension already and have not touched retirement savings of 770,000 (IRA, 401(k) and Roth). I don’t pla ...