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Cash-Out Refinancing: How It Works, When To Do It

Savings Corner

You can improve your credit: If you use your equity to consolidate debt, your credit utilization could drop. You can take advantage of tax deductions: If you use the funds for home improvements, you could take advantage of the interest deduction. Using the cash out for home improvements is a more prudent use.”

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Resolve to Regularly Discuss Your Finances with Your Spouse

Family Balance Sheet

But for the two of us to achieve our financial goals, we need to have money conversations and they need to be done regularly. Money conversations aren't always easy to have, yet I feel that for me and my husband they are so imperative to the stability of our marriage and our home. What home improvements need to be done?

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