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What is the best type of mortgage? Why should we care? How do we know what to with our debt? Who will tell us?

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  How on earth do we know what to do with our mortgage?  Fixed? Floating? Variable? Offsetting?  What is the difference?  Is there one that is right for me?   Hopefully today we can shed some light on this, I had a house for quite sometime before I realised what was going on with these. Everyone is different, how they keep their money is different.  I have found heaps of crazy beliefs out there: from keeping it under the mattress to having some money in 10 different bank accounts at 10 different banks, just in case things fall apart. If you have a mortgage, you are best to have all your bank accounts at one bank.  All will become clearer as we go through this and look, yet again, at the example we have been using with the mortgage in the last few blogs.  Are you ready?  Let's go. Let's imagine for a moment I have a few different bank accounts, I have a credit card, I have a bill pay account, I have a mortgage pay account, my kids have ba...