Own Your Home, Mortgage Free! Here Is My Story.


Two years ago, I wrote a 50-page report titled How I Went From Being Flat Broke to Owning My Own Home, Mortgage Free, in Just 5 Years.

It was the wrong year to put out that report. People were buying up expensive houses with enourmous mortgage payments - not trying to downsize and live more securely and have financial freedom.

I've decided to put the complete report on this site, for free, so you can see exactly what most home buyers didn't do before the housing bubble crashed. If they had, the world economy would not be having the problems it's having now.

Here's how I originally introduced my report on how to get out from under a mortgage:

I'm not rich, and I never have been. You can see from the photo that my house is not fancy, it's not big, and it isn't likely to impress anybody.

But it's mine.

Living without a mortgage isn't completely free of financial worries - I still have to pay property taxes, and there's still an electric bill and a gas bill and a phone bill... But the biggest cost in most family budgets has been eliminated from mine.

I don't pay rent, and I'm not writing monthly checks to the bank.

I live in a safe, family-oriented neighborhood, and I can easily walk to the library, the post office and the bank.

My current home is sitting in one of the most beautiful valleys in the country, in a small city that was listed by The Mother Earth News as one of the "10 Best Places You Never Heard Of." I've been living here for almost a year now, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

  • But, I have to admit that people thought it was pretty funny when I first told them I was going to buy a house. They didn't believe it was possible.

It was possible five years ago - although I doubt that I could become mortgage-free so quickly if I were starting today. I managed to get out from under a mortgage by following some fairly simple rules, and coming into the housing market at the right time. Those rules may not have the same results today that they did back then, but I believe they're still good rules to live by. If you would like to read my story, just follow the links below:

 

Important Links:

FSBO Selling Tips
Planet Money Podcasts
Robert Reich’s Blog
Talking Points Memo

Important Notice: The author cannot and does not guarantee that you will have financial success by following her plan - that would be impossible, since every person is different, and every real estate market is different. This is especially true in the current economic environment. Please use the information contained in the report as inspiration, but consult an expert in real estate before making any buying decisions.

©2007-2008 Jonni Good. All rights reserved.
La Grande, OR 97850

 

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