I am self employed and want to get qualified for home equity loan. What are the qualifications lenders look at. What do I need to show them and have?

Been trying to find out on the net, but can find any good resources. If you know any and dont mind sharing would be awesome.

Thanks!!!

I’ve noticed on historic charts that there doesn’t seem to be any correlation between home equity loans and HELOCS or mortgage rates. I know HELOCs are usually based off of the prime rate, but what determines how fixed home equity loan rates fluctuate?

My husband and I are thinking of purchasing an investment property by way of using a home equity loan on our first home. Is this a smart thing to do? what are the down sides of it? We don’t have money of our own in the bank to do it, but it seems like a good time to take advantage of the changing real estate market.

First of all how do you build equity in a home? How do you report the equity to your lender? And lastly how to you pull the equity that you’ve built up out of the home with out taking a home equity loan out? Thank you in advance for any help that you can give me.

My husband and I are currently paying PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) on our mortgage. (We have no second mortgages.) I know we need twenty percent equity in order to eliminate PMI, but I don’t think we’re quite there. Is taking out a home-equity line of credit to pay down the mortage a good idea? I know that we’d then have two loans to pay, but the PMI would be eliminate and all of our payments (minus the interest) would be going toward the loan rather that insurance. Is it possible to get a home-equity line of credit for 6%?

We will be listed as “entering foreclosure” until September, but have already made 5 consecutive payments into the forebearance plan, including a large down payment. However, in order to get our finances in order and pay education costs, we need to take out a home equity loan. Will lenders approve the loan (if we have one great credit score, one bad, and a good income) in our current state? Or would it be rejected outright?

My brother-in-law took out a home equity loan and he went to refinance his house and for whatever reason the house did not appraise for what it needed to partly because of the home equity loan that he already had. He was told to pay off his home equity loan and come back to refinance his house. Is there anyway that he can change his home equity loan to a personal loan? Or would that even help? please help. thanks.

I’m wanting to add on to my home but I’ve never used a home equity loan. I have used the refinance method where you borrow a little extra to add on. What would be the best now, with the way the economy is and the interest rates unstable?

What are some benefits of a home equity loan? How does it work? Whats a good interest rate for someone with OK credit? My is good, but my husbands is fair. We are planning on consolidating high interest cards and possibly using sometowards a newer vehicle.

Does anyone know the typical point for a home equity line of credit ? By point, I mean the up-front fee that is proportional to the credit limit. So if the term asks for 5 points (5%) and the line of credit is $100,000, there is a $5,000 fee. Do you think that the numbers I’ve just mentioned are a pretty good deal, assuming that the interest rate is good? Thank you.