I'm wondering...would it be better paying off my mortgage (80K) or keep the money in market investments?

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45. NIce. I had friends who had several acres in Stetson, Me., outside of Bangor. They bought a couple of acres, around '72,

after they graduated from college. They were setting up and some local yahoo comes up to them with a shotgun. He had Nancy tie Greg to a tree and then shot Greg, leaving with a threat that they should get out. Greg was wounded and survived.

Next, the dumbass drove into town and told towns people how he took care of the "hippies" and they won't be back. The neighbors reported this to the police. Nancy got Greg to hospital where the gunshot wounds were reported to police.

Idiot served time but I don't know how much. Greg & Nancy, a few years later, bought a farmhouse in another part of Stetson. I lost track of them around 30 years ago.

My family had a small cabin at Balch Pond, on the N.H. border. We kept it for years and then sold it to pay for kid's tuition. Later, I bought a condo in Wells Beach and kept it for 10 years.

I miss Maine but it is a long drive from N.J. to Maine so I haven't been for about 10 years.