05/13/2026
Most mortgages today still follow the same basic structure they did generations ago.
Fixed payment.
Slow amortization.
Heavy interest in the early years.
What’s interesting is…
the average homeowner only stays in a property around 3–5 years.
Which means many borrowers move or refinance long before they ever benefit from the later years of amortization.
There are other approaches that work very differently — using cash flow to reduce principal faster from the beginning instead of waiting years for the balance to meaningfully move.
Not widely known.
And there’s probably a reason most people never hear about it.