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What is a Home Equity Loan?

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Keywords: mortgage, Home Equity Line Of Credit (HELOC), fixed-rate interest payments, college funding, home equity loans,

What is a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)?

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Keywords: mortgage loans, debt consolidation, home equity, balloon payment, Fixed-Rate Home Equity Loan, Home Equity Line Of Credit (HELOC), home equity loans, home loans,

What is a Mortgage Equity Withdrawal?

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Keywords: reverse mortgage, Home Equity Line Of Credit (HELOC), home equity loans,

What is a Home Mortgage?

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Keywords: notional principal, refinancing, float, mortgage, collateral, home equity, fixed-rate mortgage, Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI), mortgage refinancing, principal loan amount, fixed rate, floating rate,

What is Home Equity?

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Keywords: home equity, reverse mortgage, Home Equity Line Of Credit (HELOC), building up equity,

What is Homeowners Insurance?

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Keywords: insurance, property insurance, identity theft, home equity loans, fire, flood, theft, home loans,

What is a Reverse Mortgage?

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Keywords: home equity, Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM), senior citizens, reverse mortgage,

What is Appraisal?

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Keywords: valuation, mortgages, refinancing, appraisal, home inspector, real estate closing, second mortgage, lines of credit, home equity loans, property value,

What is Appraisal Fraud?

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Keywords: mortgage loans, lines of credit, consumer protection, real estate appraisal, real estate agents, home equity loans,

What is an Adjustable Rate Mortgage?

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Keywords: refinancing, mortgage loans, variable loan rate, Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM), mortgage refinancing,

What is Mortgage Refinancing?

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Keywords: interest rate, refinancing, Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM), fixed-rate mortgage, Home Equity Line Of Credit (HELOC), "re-fi", mortgage refinancing,

What is a Home Debtor?

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Keywords: banking, mortgages, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), mortgage loans, home equity, underwater, Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA), Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), Emergency Economic Stabilization Act,

What is a Mortgagor?

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Keywords: mortgage, Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM), fixed-rate mortgage, variable-rate mortgage, mortgagee,

What is an FHA Loan?

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Keywords: Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), first-time homebuyers, low income homebuyers, FHA loans,

What is a Student Loan?

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Keywords: inflation, FAFSA, Sallie Mae, Navient, student loans,

What Does Debt Financing Mean?

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Keywords: interest rates, leverage, bonds, debt, commercial paper, private investors, promissory notes, debt financing,

What is Bank Credit?

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Keywords: economics, loans, credit score, banking institutions, FICO score,

What is a Bond?

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Keywords: investments, fixed income, leverage, bonds, corporate and municipal debt, investment basics,

What is Freddie Mac?

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Keywords: Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO), Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), subprime meltdown, banking institutions, Great Depression, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation,

What does Equity or Security Mean in the context of Capital Markets?

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Keywords: fixed income, securities, investment portfolio, equity, shareholders,

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