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      TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO BLOG: Hi, everybody. It’s Rowan Smith with Citywide Mortgage Services. The question I’m here to answer today is how do you minimize your mortgage penalties? The short answer is…you have to pick your lender very carefully. Now, on a variable‑rate mortgage, uniformly across the board, it’s essentially a three‑month interest penalty. However,

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      Transcript of Video Blog: Hi everybody! Rowan Smith with the Mortgage Centre. We’re doing a Myth-busting series here. I’m going to do a 10 part series that I’m going to release over the following weeks. So, I’m just going to address a number of different myths within finance and real estate. The one I want

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