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More Home Equity Borrowing Basics

What is a home equity loan?

What is a home equity line of credit (HELOC)?

Which is better, a home equity loan or line of credit?

Time for a Fixed Rate on Your Home Equity Line?

What You Should Know About Home Equity Loans

Your New HELOC: Choose it and Use it Wisely

Building Home Equity

Mortgage Prepayment Guide

Increase home equity with the right mortgage choice

How to Build Home Equity

Using Home Equity

What you should never buy with home equity

Pros and cons of paying for college with home equity

Can I pay off a ‘Parent PLUS Loan’ with a home equity loan? My lender says ‘no’

Using home equity

Can I use an equity loan to pay off my mortgage?

Home Equity and Debt Consolidation

Got debt? Your home equity can help

Home Equity Debt Consolidation Done Right

Got debt? Try a home equity loan to wipe it away

Dogged by debt? Consider tapping home equity or retirement savings

Home Equity and Home Improvement

My home needs to be renovated but I have little equity. What are my options?

High debt loads but lots of equity. Can I get money for home improvement?

A Home Improvement Loan with No Home Equity?

Home Value Estimator
How much is my house worth?

Home Equity Analysis and Strategies

Is a home equity loan a good idea?

The Case for Using a HELOC as Your First Mortgage

Why are are home equity loan rates so high compared to first mortgages?

Home Equity: Why 2015 Is The New Zero

Sometimes it's good to be underwater

Home Equity Borrowing and Market Conditions

When Your Home Equity Line of Credit Is Cut or Frozen

The new home equity loans

Dead or Alive? The Home Equity Loan

Increase home equity with the right mortgage choice

Home equity loans make a responsible comeback

What is a home equity loan?

Home price recovery index: Which metros have improved the most, least?

Facing unemployment? Your home equity can help

Home Equity Borrowing and Taxes

Home Equity Loans and the IRS: Things You Need to Know

Using home equity to pay your tax bill

Is a home equity line of credit tax-deductible?

Home Equity Concerns

Home Equity Loan or Reverse Mortgage: Which Is Right for You?

7 options for the 'under-equitied'

Should I refinance my Home Equity Line of Credit?