Smart Ways to Use Your Home Equity Without Giving Up a Great Mortgage Rate

Owning a home gives you options, but not every option is automatically a good one. You may be thinking about selling while buyers are still active. You may need access to the equity you’ve built. You may simply be looking for ways to reduce rising household expenses. Whatever the situation, the goal shouldn’t be to…

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Your HELOC is coming due… now what?

Millions of Americans took out home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) ten years ago, right around the time that the real estate market was crashing. I love HELOCs and think they are great options for lots of different scenarios but many of them were set up with balloon payments after 10 years, so many people…

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