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What is the difference between a home equity loan and a mortgage?
Answered By Editor
A home equity loan is a loan on the equity
you have built up in your mortgage. At the
time you sale your home this will be deducted
in your final pay out. Say your mortgage is
100,000 and your home equity is 10,000. When
you sell your home you will only net 90,000
if you have spent the 10,000.
A home equity loan give you a line of
credit on you equity. You can continue to
take money from this account as long as
you're making your regular payments and you
don't go over your limit. A mortgage is
simply a loan for the amount needed to
purchase a home.
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