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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I come from very different money backgrounds. My family has always had stocks and invested. His has always paid off their house (and didn't pay for college)

Every time I want to put more money into investments, we have a big discussion. He ALWAYS wants to put the money into our mortgage instead. Last night he was upset he learned I had been putting 4k in DD's 529 plan. He thought that 4k a year would be better put to our mortgage and then if we wanted to help her with college, our mortgage would be gone and we could help her more.

FWIW our mortgage isn't THAT much (300k at 4%) and our salaries aren't high (180k) so we do have to make smart decisions about money. Is there something we could read or get information on what to do? I don't mind having a mortgage forever and he wants it to be our primary focus. We have 150k that I wanted to buy a rental property with, but he can't get over our huge mortgage balance and wants it paid off instead. I'm just sick of having the same discussion about paying off the mortgage over and over again. [/quote]

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