In the following video, Robert Brokamp, senior advisor for the Motley Fool's Rule Your Retirement service, takes a question from a Fool reader. The reader asks,"Should I save all my money for a down payment on a house or put some in a retirement account? Which one is more important?"
What's more important, the mortgage or the 401(k)?
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