Nice horse analogy :). Please tell me if I got this right. Basically, you can request a bank loan, for example, to buy a house. Having got the loan, you use the money and buy the house above. In a few days, you find yourself in possession of a large sum of money and choose to pay the loan. Having done so, even if you had paid some interest rates for the time you had the money, you are considered loan free and as if you had never had a loan? I asked a friend from Mortgage Advice Newcastle to explain it to me, but the terms were too complicated to understand.