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27 Apr 2020

Interest Rates Reduced!

Our bank has reduced the interest rates on the mortgages and its made quite a big saving for us.  Because we have three mortgages (2 IPs & PPOR) and the redraw, the total reduction in monthly payments is $408/month.

Usually when interest rates go down we just keep paying the same amount so we are always ahead in our payments. But this time I am going to reduce all the payments except our PPOR mortgage to the minimum and redirect them to the PPOR mortgage, so an extra $408 going towards the mortgage payoff from next month. That is really going to help us make faster progress.

DH made me a desk over the weekend so now I have space I don't have to share while I'm working from home. We've put the curtains up in the lounge room/current office space, they don't match  but they will do for the time being.

We've started walking at lunchtime now as the mornings are getting a bit cool - I love Autumn!




Roses are starting to bloom...





....  and this little magpie is a friendly visitor to our house each day..



Another week done and dusted. take care everyone xx

8 comments:

Practical Parsimony said...

Interest rates going down on a mortgage is always good news.

Out My window said...

That is great, take advantage of any extra principle you can.

Cheapchick said...

Wow, that is seriously good news!

Anonymous said...

Good job taking advantage of this. Hopefully a lot more can do that - it should help a great deal! We've paid off all our debts, so this doesn't help us as much, but its good news for everyone else!

Jan said...

always! :)

Jan said...

its going to make a big difference.

Jan said...

yes, nice to have good news with all thats going on at the moment.

Jan said...

we're fortunate I think as if we had lost work then we'd have to use that money, but it will really help get the mortgage down faster.