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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Author: TheMortgageForum
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Debt consolidation home equity loan
A debt consolidation home equity loan is a little different than your regular debt consolidation loan. The debt consolidation home equity loan allows for collateral. In fact this debt consolidation home equity loan is going to offer you only the amount of equity you have in your home. First let’s look at what a regular home equity loan is and then we will look at the debt consolidation loans. A home equity loan is going to be a second mortgage on the home in most cases. This means you already have one mortgage and you have now taken out the second mortgage. In some cases you will find that a home equity loan is the only mortgage a person has. It depends on whether the individual has paid off the first mortgage before deciding on getting a second one. Equity in a home is the value of the home minus the amount you have left on the existing loan. You may find that you have the entire equity if you own the house out right. As this is a rare case for many, you will have only a partial value of the house that you can borrow against. In most cases you can borrow up to 100% of the value of the home. If you credit score is in the excellent position you may be able to get a 125% of the value. When you combine a home equity loan with a debt consolidation you are asking that the home equity loan be used for a certain purpose. With debt consolidation you are taking any debt such as car loan, personal loan, and credit cards that have high interest rates and combining them into one loan. This means you are going to have a lower monthly payment that will help you gain some savings or money for other expenses that you are struggling to pay. Since you will have collateral with the debt consolidation home equity loan you are able to get lower interest rates than an unsecured loan. You also have to consider that a debt consolidation home equity loan will only cover as much as the equity you have in the home. In other words if you have $25,000 in equity, but $45,000 in debt you can only cover the $25,000 you have in debts. If this is the case you need to choose the more immediate problems, i.e. the higher interest rate debts.










