A mortgage is a big thing to sign up for, so it's important to know how it works and how you can have it set up to suit your situation. Co-host of my millennial money and my millennial property, John Pidgeon, joins Azaria to help talk through:

👉🏼who sets up your mortgage and some options for how you can set up repayments (get the help of an awesome mortgage broker)

👉🏾how to choose the right mortgage product for you

👉a few tricks to pay off your mortgage sooner

👉🏻some terminology you'll need to understand before you sign on the dotted line (fixed rate, variable rate, principle, interest, offset account, lenders mortgage insurance (LMI))

👉🏼the way interest works and what a principle + interest (P+I) vs interest only loan looks like

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