re: Can PMI be cancelled by building equity through home improvements?

I thought I remembered something changing but didn’t know the dates. I got rid of mine in 2017 at the 5 year mark. I called my financial advisor because I had some stock in my company stock account that we moved from my company account to him and we hadn’t decided how we were going to invest it yet. I was paying about $250 a month on PMI and I needed $26,000 to drop PMI. He told me to write the check for the PMI because it was a guaranteed savings.