[Freakazoid]

Any suggestions for companies to go with for HELOC loans? Only real thing I care about is lowest APR..

[Feyd]

I'd find a good mortgage broker/firm and go from there...

Kudos to you for still having some equity in your home. I know that isn't the case for lots of folks out there.

[BTM]

Pittsburgh was hit relatively lightly with the whole housing market crash. My dad actually purchased a house there about a year ago (my sister goes to Pitt) and it's already gone up I wanna say 10-15% in value.

Have you even started looking OP? I know that most major banks offer heloc's, not sure how their apr compares traditionally but may be a starting point.

[Freakazoid]

Originally Posted by BTM

Pittsburgh was hit relatively lightly with the whole housing market crash. My dad actually purchased a house there about a year ago (my sister goes to Pitt) and it's already gone up I wanna say 10-15% in value.

Have you even started looking OP? I know that most major banks offer heloc's, not sure how their apr compares traditionally but may be a starting point.

Nice I'm an alum of Pitt. But ya, Pittsburgh was hit only very lightly...but that's because we didn't have the bubble either, all pretty steady.

And ya, I've been using bankrate.com as a starting point...but that only has banks that submit their data, tons of other smaller/other banks out there that it doesn't encompass.

[Freakazoid]

BTM, mind if I ask where the house is at? (general curiousity)

[Tuned1M]

Best bet is a Credit Union.

You can also try this: http://www.bankrate.com/home-equity.aspx

And for a very rough value estimate: http://www.eppraisal.com/

[BTM]

Originally Posted by Freakazoid

BTM, mind if I ask where the house is at? (general curiousity)

She's in Bloomfield like a block off of Liberty

[Freakazoid]

Originally Posted by Tuned1

Best bet is a Credit Union.

You can also try this: http://www.bankrate.com/home-equity.aspx

And for a very rough value estimate: http://www.eppraisal.com/

Thanks for the reminder about credit union, I keep on forgetting about them

[Freakazoid]

Originally Posted by BTM

She's in Bloomfield like a block off of Liberty

nice, I know a guy that works right near there. I work pretty much almost right across the river from there

[BTM]

LOL I go to visit often enough but don't know Pittsburgh well enough to know where the river is from there...or to not get lost every fucking time I get that highway that goes through the tunnel in the mountain and then immediately over the bridge...

That said, Blue Knob rules