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Christina Zelow Lundquist/ Getty Images; Illustration by Austin Courregé/Bankrate Key takeaways Cash-out refinancing allows you to turn equity into cash through refinancing your mortgage. The terms of your refinanced mortgage might significantly differ from your original loan, including a new rate or longer or shorter loan term.

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You can use your equity to renovate some rooms, pay off credit cards, cover college tuition, start your own business … or almost anything else. Using our example above, that’s 0.8 For example, if you wanted a $30,000 home equity loan, your CLTV would come to 60.97 x $410,000, or $328,000.

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HELOCs (home equity lines of credit) come with variable interest rates and fluctuating monthly payments (like credit cards). Home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) and home equity loans are two similar finance tools — methods of borrowing money against the ownership stake you have in your home. HELOC: What is it?

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