Heloc to pay off mortgage faster

[Drew Cameron]

I recently came across a new strategy that I don't quite understand and it sounds too good to be true. The principal is simple. Use your heloc to pay your mortgage and funnel all your funds in and out of it like a checking account. The interest updates daily so you can pay down principal balance much faster than on a traditional mortgage. With a decreasing principal balance the payments go down each month as you pay it off. Plus you can get rid of other payments by funneling them into your account as well. Has anyone else heard of this? Or has anyone used this successfully?

[Wayne Brooks]

Jesus people, are you guys that dense?  There's no magical difference between interest on a heloc and interest on a Mtg balance, they are both simple interest.  It so obvious....you save over all payments on a Mtg by paying extra toward the principle, period.  You don't need to borrow the money to do this, and then pay the Same Amount (plus interest) back to pay off the heloc! Geeze.....