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A Home Equity Loan and a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) are not the same thing. In general, a home equity loan is a better financial tool for most consumers. Both are ways to finance large expenses by borrowing against the equity in your home minus closing costs. Equity is the difference between what you owe on your mortgage and what your home is worth. The keywords here are that these are ways to finance large expenses.

Some homeowners treat a home equity loan or HELOC like a credit card by using their home as collateral. Especially a HELOC. Particularly high risk is taking out a line of credit against the equity in their home to pay off high-interest credit cards with a low-interest HELOC. This is seldom a good idea. If you are having trouble paying off credit cards, do you want to put your homeownership at risk to pay for last summer’s wardrobe or too many dinners out? Credit cards are unsecured loans. If you fail to repay money borrowed on credit cards, it will hurt your credit score, but they cannot come after your home. If you move those credit charges over to an equity loan, you have agreed that the lender can foreclose on your home if you fail to repay the money. You want to use the equity in your home in financially smart ways.

What is a HELOC?

A HELOC is very much like a credit card except it is a secured loan instead of an unsecured loan. Like a credit card, you can continue to borrow against it, up to the credit line. As you repay part of the loan, you can borrow that money again at some time in the future. You pay interest only on what you borrow. The fact that it is so much like a credit card is what gets some consumers into serious credit trouble that can cost them their homes. Instead of using a credit card to pay for an occasional night out, the much higher credit limit on a HELOC lets them charge a two-week vacation that they otherwise could not afford.

A HELOC allows you to borrow up to 85% of your home equity. Unlike most home equity loans, a HELOC has a variable interest rate that will change periodically based on market conditions. This makes a HELOC less desirable and riskier during times of rising interest rates like we are experiencing now.

There are two distinct phases to a HELOC. The draw phase and the payback phase. During the draw phase, you spend the money however you want and only make minimum payments or interest-only payments. If you still have more equity in your home, you can usually refinance your HELOC to extend the draw phase.