You should also freeze a home-equity line of credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debts From Your 'Ex'] Reference

They have a second loan, too - say, a home-equity loan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Foreclosure Program Aims To Spur 'Short Sales'] Reference

A lot of your home loans, home-equity loans, things like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2007] Reference

In theory, yes-as long as you have an open home-equity line of credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Make It Through '92] Reference

First-year business loans often come from home-equity lines of credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living From Job To Job] Reference

Older home-equity lines aren't all as competitively priced as new ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortgages: Rates on the Rise] Reference

Borrowers with home-equity lines of credit, or HELOCs, also have a decision to make.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortgages: Why It May Be Time to Refinance Your Loan] Reference

“The shift from home-equity borrowing to credit cards is quite costly,” says Smith.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Widening Credit Squeeze?] Reference

I have concerns about the practices of any number of credit-card and home-equity lenders.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

Some consumer loans, such as home-equity lines of credit, also showed easing in standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banks Keep Lending Standards Tight] Reference

Many were home-equity loans taken out by seniors who had long ago paid off their mortgages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lisa Madigan: Making the Process Honest: Meaningful Financial Reform] Reference

Refinance home-equity lines (now at 8.5 percent or more), says Keith Gumbinger of hsh. com.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape From The Money Pit] Reference

So she's using a home-equity line to pay off credit cards and to finance a European vacation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxed Out] Reference

He explains that banks that made these home-equity loans have to sign off to OK a short sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Foreclosure Program Aims To Spur 'Short Sales'] Reference

Open a home-equity line while you're still employed, to give yourself emergency borrowing power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good-Job Market: R.I.P.] Reference

Avoid doing business with unsolicited callers who offer to arrange a home-equity loan for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch out for equity loan schemes that can imperil your home] Reference

But home-equity lines, once a major alternative to credit cards, are also getting harder to access.    From Wordnik.com.  [Habit-Forming:] Reference

It may be cheaper and easier to use a home-equity line, a second mortgage or a loan from your 401 (k).    From Wordnik.com.  [College: Beating the Loan Sharks] Reference

National City Corp. said recently that 2007 loans are driving delinquencies in its home-equity portfolio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortgages Made in 2007] Reference

But the company is in better shape because of what Mulally calls "the biggest home-equity loan in history.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Ford Pull Ahead?] Reference

Consolidate loans at the lowest possible interest rate (best choice: a home-equity line of credit or a credit union).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good-Job Market: R.I.P.] Reference

Borrow smarter: If you do have high-interest loans and own a home, consider switching your debt to a home-equity line of credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide To Surviving The Long Siege Ahead] Reference

They kept their consumption rising not only by scanting saving but also by supplementing credit-card debt with home-equity loans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Bad News] Reference

For example, they can create home-equity insurance that protects homeowners against drops in the value of the homes in their city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taming a Wild Market] Reference

And in the two years since the bubble first burst, home-equity savings has fallen by about one-third, from 60 percent to 43 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Shapiro: The Housing Crisis and Our National Attitudes Towards Saving] Reference

As pressure grows on banks to modify more mortgages, they may have to recognize big losses on home-equity and other second-lien loans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bank Delay Could Pay Dividends] Reference

On home-equity loans, rates are up by 4 or 5 percentage points -- far from the supercheap money you expected when you first signed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape From The Money Pit] Reference

Cash savings, readily salable investments like stocks and mutual funds and some borrowing power on credit cards or a home-equity line.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide To Surviving The Long Siege Ahead] Reference

Washington University, for one, makes low-rate home-equity loans to parents who want to prepay four years of college at today's price.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Save For College] Reference

Some of that extra money goes for fun and games, but you're using the rest to pay off high-interest credit-card and home-equity loans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charge It, Santa Baby] Reference

The best loans: (1) home-equity loans; (2) government-financed Perkins or Stafford loans, available to students with low or middle incomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Save For College] Reference