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Home Equity Loan

You need quick money to pay some bills. Get a large amount of cash in a couple of weeks time.

Probably the last thing you want to do is deal with the banks right now, but if your credit is not too bad you can get a home equity loan.

Of course, you have to own a home. If you don't own real estate stop wasting your time reading this.

office building Your home equity is the difference between the value of your home or any other real estate property and how much you owe on it.

It has been a time honored tradition in the USA to keep draining your home equity as a means of adding to the income stream.

Borrow On Equity

Some people have borrowed on their equity several times and are up to their necks owing money of a house that originally costs $12,000.00 in 1976 and now has a mortgage of $120,000.00 on it.

Well what the heck! You only live once and if that is what you have to do to get by then that's the way it is.

Currently banks are squeamish about lending, but you can ask.

You can check the market value of your home through a realtor.

They can tell you what comparable homes have sold for recently in your neighborhood.
Try this site for an evaluation as well http://www.housevalues.com/

The longer that you have been paying on the mortgage the better off you will be as far as having equity.

It can't hurt to ask.