Sean Cooper is a weird guy who did something weird. While normal folks like us buy a house, we make a smaller down payment and take years to pay off our mortgage. For some people they will drag it out to 25-30 years for as long as possible. For Sean, who lives in Canada, he bought a $425,000 house and took on a mortgage debt of $255,000. He set himself a target to pay off the mortgage as soon as possible. All it took him was 3 years to do that. However, this involves a fair bit of sacrifice:

1. He works as a $75,000/yr  full time analyst in a pension firm
2. Concurrently, he works on weekends and evenings as a free lance financial writer
3. Concurrently, he works as a $13/hr clerk in a meat department in a grocery store (note that he is a vegetarian)
4. His home consist of 3 ...

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