Whether you need to pay for a costly medical procedure or are thinking about using your home equity as a down payment on a second home, you may be thinking about tapping into $60,000 worth of your home's equity soon. But before you borrow against your home equity, it's important to make sure you can afford the payments. After all, when you take out a home equity loan, your home is used as collateral.
But if your HELOC rate and payment stayed the same through the 15-year repayment period, your HELOC payments on a $60,000 balance at today's average interest rate of 9.18% would be $615 per month and you would pay $50,700.25 in total interest. Get the money you need with a home equity loan now.
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