mortgage ugh. dont-remind-me. Order of operations I follow is:
a) Mortgage
b) Electric
c) Phone
d) Internet
e) Smartphones
f) TV
Our Internet's not reliable enough (boonies here) to fold
Phone/Cell/TV together just yet.
So often ppl get the order-of-things backwards.
The trouble with Mortgage-first ('cause you need a roof over
your head!) is, when times are tough (running your own business
is doable but it can be hectic) - the *chance* you might lose
some fun service always looms overhead.
Been lucky so far. 13 yrs, knock on wood. But that bank has to
get paid because THEY paid the home-builders to build the house.
Most ppl don't realize that: A mortgage is a building loan -
LITERALLY. It's a loan for the building that ONCE built that
building.
Still amazes me how construction really starts it all.