You can withdraw money
against your line of credit during the «draw» or «advance» period.
Not exact matches
Using your home itself as collateral, this secured financing usually touts lower interest rates than
credit cards and acts as a revolving source
of funds, so that you can borrow
against your home and pay back the
credit line as many times as you'd like
during the draw period.
HELOCs have a draw period,
during which you can borrow
against your
line of credit, following by a repayment period, when you must pay off the principle as a regularly amortizing loan.
Therefore, your interest deductions for a home equity
line of credit depend on whether you borrow
against the equity
during that year.
Many people are enticed by the reduced payments
of the interest only payment option
during the draw period — the period
of time where borrowers can repeatedly draw
against their
credit lines (typically the first 10 years
of the loan).