Yes, Take A HELOC For That
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🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. So I just finalized |
| 0:07.5 | a divorce and I owe her $150,000, which is her half of the equity of the house. And I have |
| 0:15.3 | 70,000 saved up. And it looks like a HELOC might be the only way I can go because I owe her the rest of the money |
| 0:24.4 | by the end of August basically. So I know I'm a little bit behind, but we had kind of made plans to make payments up until the end of a divorce. |
| 0:32.7 | So she changed it over and said that she wanted to buy a house. So yeah, I was just wondering if there's any other options other than heat lock. |
| 0:40.3 | Okay. |
| 0:40.7 | What's the balance on the first mortgage? |
| 0:44.5 | 110. |
| 0:45.6 | What's the value of the home? |
| 0:49.3 | About 430, 440. |
| 0:51.7 | What's the interest rate on the first? |
| 0:55.0 | 2.25. |
| 0:57.1 | Okay. |
| 0:59.5 | So you would borrow 80 on a helot, and you make what? |
| 1:05.2 | 130. |
| 1:06.2 | Okay. |
| 1:07.2 | All right, so I don't tell people to borrow money, but you're already in debt. |
| 1:10.5 | You're in debt to your ex-wife, and we're going to change that to another kind of debt called a helock. |
| 1:18.2 | And so you're not borrowing money, you're changing the money. |
| 1:21.4 | You're changing the type of debt. |
| 1:22.5 | You follow me? |
| 1:24.2 | Yep. |
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