Pay off mortgage or use leverage

[Brady Ascheman]

Hi everyone. I was just curious your thoughts on the pros and cons of paying off mortgages early on investment properties vs using leverage and scaling to a larger amount of properties quicker. 

[Randy Rodenhouse]

I pretty much agree with @Chris Seveney but would also say that even if your rate is a little higher than you would like but the property still cash flows then I would use my money to scale.  Once that property is paid off that capital is "locked up" into that property and may be hard to get out until you sell.