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...will they lower their house payments by $200, but the Bours will also tap into their equity to the tune of $135,000 to redo their wood floors, pay for Norm's Lexus (now that the lease is up) and pay off their time share in Maui. Their latest loan: a 30-year, $350,000 adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) for a home valued at slightly less than $1 million...
Ideally, refinancing makes sense only if you use the extra cash to add security rather than risk to your retirement assets. In a less happy scenario, it may also make sense if your other debts are so out of control that consolidating them into one lower-interest loan is the only way to crawl out from under. But, financial planners warn, if you're using your home to reduce debt, don't rack up more debt once everything is paid...
...background was crucial when she was seeking acquisition financing, which she ultimately obtained from Business Loan Express LLC, a New York City--based small-business lender that provides loans of up to $5 million to companies nationwide. "Even though there are no women that I know of running a hardware/farming store," says Chavez, "I was able to capitalize on my knowledge of this field to get a loan and also gain credibility with my vendors...
...century ago to inject positive images of African Americans into mass media, and whose life was perhaps more inspiring than that of any of the people featured on the cover of his magazines; in Chicago. The grandson of slaves, Johnson used his mother's furniture to get a $500 loan in 1942 that 40 years later had grown into a publishing empire big enough to make him the first African American to snag a spot on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. "Money," he wrote in his 1989 autobiography, Succeeding Against the Odds, "is perhaps the greatest...
...church. But some Christian entrepreneurs want it both ways. In 2002, Maryland real estate broker Philip DeLizio, 47, joined the Christian Real Estate Network. Launched by Orange, Calif., broker Bart Smith to connect Christian home buyers with Christian agents they could trust, the network now has 400 agents, 50 loan officers and 100 inquiries a month. DeLizio opened his Maryland Christian Real Estate--right next door to his Re/Max office. "If someone comes in on the Re/Max side, we don't say, 'Let's bow our heads in prayer first...