Using Your Home Equity
Tapping into your home equity can help you finance home improvements, make a large purchase, or pay off debt. Because home equity loans and home equity lines of credit use your home as collateral, they carry a lot of risk, so make sure you can handle the costs and payments that come with them.
A Second Mortgage Allows You to Borrow Against Home Equity
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How You Can Build (or Lose) Equity in Your Home
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What Is the HUD-1 Settlement Statement and When Is It Used?
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Equity of Redemption Can You Get Your Home Back After Foreclosure
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Watch Out for Reverse Mortgage Scams
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What's the Difference Between Home Equity Loans and Lines of Credit?
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What Is a Subordinated Loan?
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Renovating your house? A HELOC could help.
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Bad Credit? A Home Equity Loan Might Still Be in Reach
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How Does a Home Equity Loan Differ From a Second Mortgage?
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Learn About Losing Equity in a House and Find out Where It Goes
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When You Build Equity, You Own More of Your Home
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What Is a Home Equity Line of Credit?
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Are Reverse Mortgages a Scam for the Elderly?