Oct. 24, 2006 - The Best of Blogging

My friend JLP runs a top-notch blog over at AllFinancialMatters.  The focus is on personal finance but he also hits upon a number of "fringe" topics from time to time.

What I like most about JLP is that he fosters a sense of community among personal finance bloggers.  This is quite evident in how he takes time to read other blogs and call out the best of the best.  As a large, successful blogger he could just stick his head in the sand and keep to himself but he doesn't.

As a result, he has developed quite a following and gets excellent discussions going through comments.

You can benefit from one such discussion on the topic of prepaying your mortgage where JLP recently asked:

"Should people prepay their mortgage (pay it off early)?

Or, should they pay their regular payment and invest the amount they would have used to prepay?"

This is one of the all-time toughest questions to answer because there are so many variables and the answer depends on each person's circumstances.

The discussion generated by this question is excellent and represents what is best about blogging -- the ability to learn new things from others' perspectives.  I suggest you take a minute and click on over to read JLP's analysis of this question plus all of the comments left by others.  Maybe you'll add your insights to the discussion too!  Then roam around and check out the rest of JLP's blog.  It's a treasure of personal finance knowledge.

If nothing else, you'll at least experience what is best about blogging.

Oct. 26, 2006 - Thanks for the mention!

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