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Risks Increasing in Home Equity Loans

  Most people know what home equity credit lines are and most who have one know that they are usually tied to floating interest rates and may have even noticed that their most recent statements confirmed that yes, rates are going up.  However, our next guest says that most people don't know that most of these home equity loans expire in ten years.  Which means if you received one in 2006, you may be forced to pay it off or refinance soon which may be a big problem if your home value is still suffering from the effects of the Great Recession.

Mike Switzer interviews Catherine Latto, a certified financial planner in Charleston, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.