Home Equity Loan
Taking out a home equity loan should be an intense, diffficult proposition:
- unlike your first home loan you aren't spending the money on a house, but on yourself
- your lender therefore is less willing to finances these questionable ventures, so they charge a bit higher rates
- the rates are further raised because usually your
home equity loan is a second mortgage, meaning if you falter on repayment they get second access to your home after thee principal mortgage holder.
Expect higher rates, expect greater risk, but also expect greater gains from that risk. With a single
Being smart with a home equity loan
Whether its a home equity loan or a home equity line of credit, you have to be smart with your home equity. Don't just let it sit there, waiting for your to resell your home because nothing ios guaranteed, but that the same time you have to be veery cautions about the improvements you make, the debts you consolidate and the investments you go into with equity behind you. When you take out a
Living dangerously, getting burned
Before we were mortgage detectives we were mortgage brokers - specializing in home equity loans. As brokers we saw more people living more recklessly through their
- people begging us to give them 125% off their home equity only to blow it on cars and vacations
- people taking out a
home equity loan to build a pool or buy artwork - two things that will almost never increase the property value - people agreeing to a home equity loan rate before even shopping around and seeing what the lenders could possible offer
- and almost always, people took out more in a
home equity loan than they could handle under normal circumstances, came back to us later looking for a refinance that would combine both their original and equity home loans.
Just do us a favor and consider the financial repercussions of equity spending - this time its your money! Make sure you've found a loan that offers the right amount and the appropriate home equity loan rates, and if you can't find such a lender then you keep on looking until you do.
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