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<strong>April</strong> 9, <strong>2023</strong> - WESTSIDE MESSENGER - PAGE 7<br />

The 21st annual South Central Hilltop<br />

Block Watch Spring Cleanup will be held<br />

from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 6.<br />

By Jessica Bing<br />

Chief Experience Officer<br />

Telhio Credit Union<br />

Part of your personal net worth includes the equity you have<br />

built up in your home.<br />

Equity is one of the major benefits of owning a home. As<br />

you pay off your mortgage, you gradually build equity. Simply<br />

put, equity is the amount of your home that you actually own.<br />

So, if you have a house worth $200,000 and you owe $150,000<br />

on your mortgage, you have equity of $50,000.<br />

You can access that equity in one of two ways, through a<br />

home equity loan or a home equity line of credit.<br />

A home equity loan is actually a second mortgage. When<br />

you apply for a home equity loan, you'll receive a single lump<br />

sum. You then pay that sum back over a set period of years. The<br />

size of your home equity loan will be limited, of course, by the<br />

amount of equity you have in your home.<br />

The interest rate attached to a home equity loan remains<br />

A spring cleaning for the community<br />

Participants will meet at the neighborhood<br />

park behind Burroughs Elementary<br />

School, 551 S. Richardson Ave., to spread<br />

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Tapping into your home equity<br />

constant throughout the life of the loan.<br />

Consumers often confuse home equity lines of credit -- better<br />

known as HELOCs -- with home equity loans. However, a<br />

HELOC works more like a credit card than a mortgage loan.<br />

With a HELOC, you'll receive a set credit limit. You only<br />

pay back the amount of money that you borrow, plus interest.<br />

For instance, if you have a HELOC with a credit limit of<br />

$50,000 and you borrow $10,000 from it, you'll only have to<br />

pay back that $10,000. You'll still have $40,000 worth of credit<br />

available to you.<br />

The interest rate on a HELOC is usually tied to the prime<br />

rate. Often, the rate will be 1 percent over prime.<br />

So, which product is better? Not surprisingly, that depends<br />

on the individual borrower and the individual situation.<br />

The key is to do your research before choosing either a<br />

HELOC or home equity loan. Only by studying your spending<br />

habits and needs can you make the right equity decision. For<br />

more information, visit www.telhio.org/personal/home-equity.<br />

out and pick up litter in the area. Keep<br />

Columbus Beautiful will provide the<br />

cleanup tools, but volunteers are welcome<br />

to bring their own trash picker and favorite<br />

pair of gloves.<br />

For more information on the spring<br />

cleanup, look up the South Central Hilltop<br />

Block Watch on Facebook.<br />

Terri Ehmann<br />

REALTOR®<br />

TerriEhmann@howardhanna.com<br />

License No. 2014001974<br />

MLS No. 658022158<br />

614-216-7977 (Direct)<br />

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