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The Challenge of Adding Home Equity in 2010

As the real estate market gets back into full swing this spring, many homeowners – both those trying to sell a home and those buying and wanting to improve the properties they are moving into – will be looking for ways to boost home equity. One of the fastest ways to accomplish this is to pay down mortgage balances, but these days most consumers are having trouble just paying their bills and they cannot afford to apply extra funds to pay down mortgage principal. Another way to raise equity is to lower the cost of a mortgage through a refinance, but doing a refinance can be costly unless you can get a substantially lower rate. The Read the full post