Austex Construction – “We build your dream into reality” – (512) 331-5655

Austex Construction is pleased to serve Texas with the very best designs, products and customer service in the construction industry. As a professional contractor and builder we go above and beyond the standard building codes and procedures to ensure that each job is performed on schedule and within budget. We specialize in both commercial and [...]

Wrapping Up Debt Into Your Mortgage or Consolidating Debt

LeahCoss.ca Hi, everyone, how are you? It’s Leah Coss with The Mortgage Center. I’ve had a few of you out there ask me recently if you can wrap up your loans into your mortgage, ie maybe you have student loans, and you’re like, “I’m going to buy a house or I already have one. Can [...]

Some in China ready to drop U.S. holdings and pour money into nation

Some in China ready to drop U.S. holdings and pour money into nation The debtor-lender relationship between America and China is a “financial balance of terror,” as White House adviser Lawrence Summers once put it. If China sold its dollar holdings, U.S. borrowing needs are so great that the sale could push America back into [...]

5 Tips For Tapping Wisely Into Your Home Equity Line of Credit

Millions of homeowners are using their home equity line of credit to splurge. Should you? The answer is no. It’s risky to do so, unless you’re borrowing against your house to make a better investment than the one you have at present, which is your home. So, if your reason for turning to home-equity lending [...]

Should we roll our second home line of equity loan into our first which we are refinancing?

We are refinancing our first mortgage. We have a second which is a home equity line of credit at 7.78% We can probably pay it off in 10 years. Should we roll it into our first and refinance both at 5.20% for 30 years? Would the difference in interest rates offset the extra 20 years [...]