Based on my personal experience I would strongly suggest Max gain. In my case, I have already pre-paid my loan in the last 2-3 years (the original term was 12 years I think) and to have liquidity I have not closed the loan account. It means that for emergencies I can pull out that money whenever I want. As soon as I have some backup corpus created for emergencies, I can go ahead and close the loan account. As of now, I am not paying a single penny towards my existing home loan. No debt is a great feeling to have in life.