Home Equity Quotes

#1. Yes, your kids should go to school. No, you shouldn't bankroll their degree whatever the cost. You've spent your life creating a sound financial plan; don't upend it by suspending your retirement savings or taking out a home equity line of credit to pay for a pricey college.

Suze Orman

#2. The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduces the financial incentive of stressed borrowers to remain in their homes.

Ben Bernanke

#3. A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.

Alan Greenspan

#4. I crown you, small monarch of my bones,

Pablo Neruda

#5. Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

Bell Hooks

#6. I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

Nathan Lane

#7. I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

Kirby Wright

#8. I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

B. D. Wong

#9. If you can't afford the upkeep of your home, it makes no sense to do a reverse mortgage. You will just end up having to sell eventually when you realize you can't afford the home, and whether you have any equity left after the sale depends on the size of the reverse loan that must be settled.

Suze Orman

#10. Studies have shown that gaining weight is not solely caused by eating unhealthy foods and living a sedentary lifestyle, but in fact, also caused by "stressed" or dysfunctional adrenal glands.

Ashley Moore

#11. The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#12. A Home without Equity Is Just a Rental with Debt,

Michael Lewis

#13. Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

Russell D. Moore