The Mortgage Advice That Fails in NZ: With Aaron Cattell (The Mortgage Man)

Time to fact-check the mortgage advice taking over social media, and see what actually holds up.

Mortgage adviser Aaron Cattell (aka The Mortgage Man) is ready to go myth-by-myth through the mortgage advice doing the rounds online, and find out what actually survives contact with someone who does this for a living.

We cover:

• The "pay a dollar a day" trick, the viral claim that resets your mortgage interest.
• Weekly vs fortnightly vs monthly repayments; does paying more often actually shave years off your mortgage in New Zealand, or is that a US myth that doesn't translate?
• The "buy two houses, one each" couple strategy
• Credit scores, and how much they really matter for a NZ mortgage application
• Rent vs buy, and how to figure out the numbers for the NZ context

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Audio engineering by Tash Chittock

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