Easy Home Equity Loan

If I re-finance my condo, can I add in other debt like credit cards and such? Or is that when you get a second mortgage? I want to put everything into one monthly payment. I highly DOUBT that there is any equity for a home-equity loan.

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The thing is, I have good credit and I can currently afford my bills. It just I got married 2 yrs. ago and already had this debt built up i would like to clear my slate…and besides that I owe a lot..btn Credit Cards and Student Loans..woooooo

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I am recently divorced and the reason for my divorce was due to my wife obtaining numerous credit cards on line im my name, she then maxed them out and didn’t make payments on them. When I found out the cards existed the interest rates had went out of sight and late fees had became enormous. Due to the divorce and the credit card debt I turned the credit cards and one personal loan over to Consumer Credit Counseling Service. This is still a strain on my budget. I bring home 3,700 dollars a month and my total debt that I turned over to the credit counselors is now 18,700 dollars. After I pay my rent, child support (which is the mortgage on the house my x wife lives in), car payment, a home equity line payment, and other monthly bills I only have approximately 360 dollars left for groceries and gas, and other emergency expenses. Would I be a good candidate for bankruptcy, or does anyone know a better option?

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I live in Texas.I need to do home improvements.
its not a trailer.I dont have any credit cards either.
I don’t owe it
I believe that s how much its worth because thats what my tax statement says.Is this the value?

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I had a few loans out through my significant other, one small one that i used for a car about ,000, one larger one for about ,500, and then we had some combined stuff to do around the house, etc, so that was a home equity for about ,000…all in all those were gotten about a year or two fairly closely together though, and they all started out as lines of credit, fixed interest rates.

We both kept making payments on time, and were on great terms, then this whole credit crisis hit…our credit cards, some of them, the limits got slashed, one or two just closed…..then two of these lines of credit became variable rates…and then if that wasn’t enough, they reduced the terms from lets say 6 and 8 years down to 5, just like that…

and just today I found out that they’re freezing them, the two of them, and they’re no longer lines of credit just simply loans..which totally eradicates drawing more on it lets say at a later date.

So now I especially am very angry, because I feel like we’re being messed around by these banks just because they "can," even though we have good if not great credit, make our payments on time, and that’s actually not THAT bad of outstanding debt being that it’s not all under one person’s name.

it’s just ridiculous though. We’ve been paying them down, and we still have alot of other credit available that we NEVER use, and income is good..everything is good.

So now I’m depressed, becuase in the last year, with all this slashing, it put a serious dent into being able to withdraw espeially for necessary things like health bills.

So as of right now I want to know what the best option would be?

Should I just let things go how they are, or should I try a different bank and then just consolidate a few into one bigger loan, or try to get a line of credit and just transfer over and pay off the, forgive my language, cr@ppy loan deals we now have?

Another concern is, with this outstanding debt, which isn’t astronomical but it’s still quite a bit…

will they be less likely to approve, especially if it’s secured? Does going in person help any..rather than just over the phone and internet, and perhaps putting up a collateral or securing it with something might help?

The thing is, I used personal lines of credit to have as a safety net, just in case emergencies come up, I mess up and over spend,, or whatever financial crisis may arise especially in THIS economy, and it’s something that you pay down but can also reach in if you need it.

IT’s great for rescues, but now banks are seriously cutting that down, and well….not much is available.

So I’m very upset over it. I mean I can understand the economy being bad but…these banks aren’t even giving out notices ahead of time to WARN us about changes@!

They NEVER notified us about this recent change where they’re just becoming loans and not lines of credit which we got APPROVED of.

no letter in the mail, just happened.

This is all by the way, BANK OF AMERICA!

the other one is with capital one, and they’re fine thus far.

is bank of america just a bad place to do business with?

They even treat their LOYAL customers like dirt and we’ve been banking with them for a long time now!

Very depressing I’ll say.

What are our options? I don’t want to go into some debt consolidation thing either because I can totally pay off the bills from the loans etc, tey’re not that much considering they’re spread out for many years, and they serve a great purpose to withdraw money from if they’re lines of credit.
also, once the banks do this, are these permanent changes or can they be subject to change? Bank of America’s reasoning was : well we just don’t DO lines of credit anymore.

Fine, but why should we then bank with them?

It’s our money too we’re paying back, so why pay under one bank’s conditions & terms you don’t agree with.

If another bank is more negotiable and nice to their customers & offers better rates/plans…..then…why stick with bank of america?

They seem very blase about actually working with you. IT’s more like…this is what we offer, this is not, take it or leave it GOODBYE, no care about good customer service or a good payment history NOTHING.

I feel like a number and they treat you almost condescendingly.

Well why do banks offer these services…if they later complain that people shouldn’t be USING THEM? It’s a catch 22, if no one used them…their businesses wouldn’t be as successful.

Banks, what’s the deal!?

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I’ve asked a similar Q before but didn’t get what I wanted. We make 50k a year and have 30 K in debt. We financed our home remodel ourselves (our first house) in hopes we would get a home equity loan. It seems like any time we have extra money it goes to paying more on a credit card. I think we have about 6 credit cards and pay a little over the min. We’re self employed so we get hit hard around april for taxes.

It seems like we don’t ever have enough money to put into savings. We don’t have kids yet but would like to start soon. We would just like to get this debt down.

How can we get 15 bills payed every month and still have money left over to save? Can we call creditors to get a lower interest rate? If so what do you ask? Thanks!

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We have close to 48,000.00 in loans/credit cards. We are not looking to "settle" our debt, we just want one monthly payment that we can make instead of all these variable, high interest rate payments we have been making. Does a place like this even exist that will allow you to do this without it being a home equity loan/line of credit? I know our credit is not great but I just can’t believe there isn’t a place that will help us. I would prefer that the answers be conducive as I already know we were irresponsible in the first place. It would also be nice to hear from people who once were in this situation and to hear how they made it out or who they used to get relief. I just feel so sick everyday thinking about it and it has seriously taken a toll on my well-being. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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During a long period of underemployment and costly divorce, I accumulated about ,000 in credit card debt. My current income is 5,000 per year, I own a home with some equity that I can’t/don’t want to sell, and two vehicles outright. All in all, my assets are probably worth ,000 net mortgages, etc.

I was able to make the payments on my credit cards until all of the banks raised my rates to 30%, despite my paying on time and having a good credit score (735). At loan-shark rates, I have started falling behind each month and have burned through all of the cash I’d saved.

I could pay the balances back if they were at reasonable interest rates, but not at 30%. I don’t want to risk my home or vehicles, but I could care less about my credit score at this point because there’s no credit available to anyone anyway.

Would debt settlement be a better option than a Chapter 13 bankruptcy? If I did file a 13, would I be able to keep my vehicles?

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