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How Home Equity Works - by Daniel Riley

Your home equity is the appraised value remaining in your house after you subtract the remaining balance you owe on your existing mortgage(s). It can be thought of as the part of the house you actually own instead of the bank: the part you've paid for so far.

It isn't difficult to build equity in your home, and chances are if you've owned your house for a while and have been making your regular mortgage payments, you probably have built a considerable amount of home equity already. Though the housing market rises and falls in cycles, the overall tendency is consistently upward. In other words, property values tend to rise over the long term.

How Can Home Equity Be Used?

Once you have equity in your home, you can start to use it to fund nearly anything you want or need. Having equity in your home puts you in a powerful position, as you can use it to qualify for credit and borrow money. Buy a new car, take that dream vacation, fund a college education, make renovations and improvements to your house. Whether to pay for an emergency or finance a dream, there are two primary ways to tap into the wellspring that is your home equity: a home equity loan or a line of credit.

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A good question to ask before borrowing money from any source...

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