Refinance or Pay Off Your Mortgage
“The thing you absolutely must do is straighten out your mortgage financing before retiring, because you might not qualify with your reduced income after retirement,” said Casey Fleming, author of “The Loan Guide: How to Get the Best Possible Mortgage.” “If you don’t do this, you might find yourself with too high an interest rate that you can’t get rid of, too high a payment for your new, lower income or plenty of equity but no way to access it readily.”