Friday, October 17, 2008

Use Home Equity Loan Method

This is one worse way you can make and try if you want..

Use a home equity loan to pay off credit-card debt

Lenders love to tout home equity loans and lines of credit as a way to pay off your plastic. You'll even see some personal finance journalists parroting the company line that such loans make sense, because home equity rates are typically lower than the interest rates you'd pay on your cards -- and the interest is usually tax deductible.

Americans have been taking this advice with a vengeance, cashing out more than $2 trillion of the equity in their homes between 2002 and 2005, according to SMR Research and Freddie Mac. Comparatively low home-equity rates, and stubbornly high credit-card rates, have convinced millions that this is the way to go.

The only way this maneuver really helps you, however, is if you stop using your credit cards to run up debt. Otherwise, you're just digging yourself a deeper hole.

Unfortunately, the ability to live within their means is beyond many people. Nearly two-thirds of the people who borrowed against their home equity to pay off credit cards had run up more card debt within two years, according to a study by Atlanta research firm Brittain Associates.

Oh, sure, you can borrow more against your home to pay off the new debt -- thus whittling away the amount of equity that's available to you in an emergency, and ensuring that you continue to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars a year in interest to your lender. The credit-card balances you should be paying off every month instead get stretched out for years, ultimately costing you more in interest -- even with the tax savings.

Ps: Its risky. But its up to you want to try or not.

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