10 Money-saving Tips That Don’t Work

Prepaying or Making Additional Payments on a Home Mortgage

Prepaying or Making Additional Payments on a Home MortgageDebt might always have a negative connotation, but Jeffrey Sklar, managing partner of Sklar, Heyman, Hirshfield & Kantor LLP, says pre-paying and making additional mortgage payments aren’t smart money-saving tips. How come? Your cash could be put to better use and make you more money. ‘Most folks don’t analyze if there is tax benefit to the interest deduction, as well as opportunity cost in taking the funds from a potential investment with a better rate of return,’ he explains.