Mailbag: Should You Sell Inherited Land to Pay Off Your Mortgage?

2025-07-03

✈️ Retire Pilots the Right Way! 🎁 Grab your FREE Retirement Toolkit now → https://d74164fb.pages.infusionsoft.net/ In this episode, Ryan answers a thoughtful listener question from Shirley, a pilot who recently inherited a parcel of land from her uncle. With a mortgage still on her home and retirement a few years away, Shirley wonders: should she sell the land to become debt-free or hold on to it and explore other options? Ryan shares the key considerations when deciding what to do with inherited real estate, especially...

✈️ Retire Pilots the Right Way!

🎁 Grab your FREE Retirement Toolkit now → https://d74164fb.pages.infusionsoft.net/

In this episode, Ryan answers a thoughtful listener question from Shirley, a pilot who recently inherited a parcel of land from her uncle. With a mortgage still on her home and retirement a few years away, Shirley wonders: should she sell the land to become debt-free or hold on to it and explore other options?

Ryan shares the key considerations when deciding what to do with inherited real estate, especially when it’s not an income-producing asset.

Here’s what we cover in this episode:

🏡 Land vs. liquidity? (It depends on your goals)

💸 Should you rush to pay off your mortgage?

📉 When “dead assets” slow your growth

🧾 Why details matter in inheritance decisions

📊 Why timing and interest rates make all the difference

💸 Home Equity & Mortgage YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j37WkBP0Yd4

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