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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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