hey what's going on! In this video we're
gonna talk about how and why your bank
could potentially freeze your home
equity line of credit and how to prevent
it from happening hey which one everyone
this is Sam qua where the father's real
estate investor and in this video we're
gonna talk about how and why your bank
could potentially freeze your he lock
your home equity line of credit now
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does it mean for your bank to freeze
your he lock whether it could because
different potential outcomes as well as
the meaning of this the first potential
outcome is that your bank could freeze
your key lock close it off so that you
could no longer draw the money out of
your home equity line of credit
essentially you're a home every line of
credit is gonna turn into you in another
mortgage so what this happens you can no
longer draw the money out the money's
trapped in it won't make my line of
credit and you're sort of forced to pay
it off just like a mortgage now I now
turn ative method or a way that your
bank could potentially freeze your HELOC
and this is probably the worst one is
they be called and don't do now this
term basically means that they're gonna
go and take all the balance that you
have your home every line of credit and
tell you to pay it off completely with
cash now if you don't the banker
potentially foreclose on you which means
they could potentially lose your home
now we don't want this to happen it's
the worst case scenario this didn't
happen during the 2008 recession now in
2008 recession during the real estate
boom and crash what happened was there
were two different types of people one
Google people had their key lock frozen
or called do just like the example that
I explained out to you guys
the second group got to keep their he
lock and you have to wonder why did I
get to keep the he lock whereas the
first group lost their he lock or they
had their he lock frozen so the reason
being is
if you are in default there's many ways
you can get into fall in terms of your
key lock one of the main ways in getting
default during the recession is that you
are underwater if you owe more than what
your home is worth so I'm gonna
illustrate this point on the board just
in case you guys don't understand what
it means to be underwater so let's say
you have your home here okay a beautiful
hole okay it's I'm gonna draw like that
there we go let's say this home is worth
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
okay I'm just pointing out to the
national average figure as far as home
value let's say you own okay Oh hundred
thousand dollars on the mortgage so this
is your mortgage on a abbreviate just
put more than a G and let's say whether
you use a strategy you don't let's say
you went out and got a home equity line
of credit for let's just call it eighty
thousand dollars this is your HELOC
amount now one thing I want to clarify
is that your he lock is works very
similar to a credit card so if you end
up getting an eighty thousand dollar
limit he lock and if you don't use any
of it it's almost like this key lock
doesn't exist but if you used your if
you lock the moment that you charged
money on your he lock account you have a
balance so very again very similar to a
credit card and how it functions
if you pull and draw all eighty thousand
dollars on that $8,000 gillip which
basically you're a hundred percent
tapped out that means you do have a
effective balance of eight thousand
dollars in his he long now what happens
is this is we're gonna call the second
position okay and what happens typically
during a recession during a major
recession is that the whole value okay
tends to drop because of different
economic pressures a situation so let's
say the new home value after the
recession happens the new home value is
one hundred and seventy five thousand
dollars and this is a
you home value okay now here is where
the problem lies you see that you got a
hundred thousand dollars of original
mortgage okay let's pretend that we
didn't pay any of it off okay we have
our mortgage balance that's the same and
we are a hundred percent tapped out on
the hillock we're using the entire
mounting HELOC okay for whatever reason
now the the typical sin of misusing the
HELOC is to go buy a new car or to go
buy a new boat or to go buy a vacation
home which doesn't generate income that
is a pretty typical sin as to using the
HELOC for the wrong reason here in the
coop brothers what we believe as a
philosophy for the HELOC is you should
be using it for a to pay off your
mortgage or any other debt that you have
and be to acquire income producing
assets okay there's a key difference
between an asset and a liability a
liability sucks away money from you and
it costs money in the long run an asset
generates income it generates
opportunities it generates revenue for
you so that you can be more wealthier
and you have more cash flow so here in
the quad brothers we believe that you
should be using the HELOC not to incur
debt to go buy some stupid things but to
acquire assets that's gonna generate
income for you now that's you the
scenario here so you owe $180,000 Oh in
total is $180,000 okay ya see that but
your home value is hundred seventy five
thousand dollars so there's a little bit
of a problem here where the bank says
well hold on you owe more you have more
debt okay out yet more outstanding
outstanding debt than what your home
value is this is a a case example of the
HELOC either being frozen or they may
call it to you or the banks are nice to
you they may just say hey you know what
I get that you know we're having a
recession you know it's a it's a
challenging time you don't have to pay
all eighty thousand dollars but we want
you to do is at least pay off $15,000 or
a HELOC so that you know we're somewhat
even we're gonna be at $165,000 owed on
the balance now
$180,000 now in some cases the banks may
say you know what we're not gonna give
you the c-loc anymore
this hillock is no longer a HELOC oh
there goes the markers this HELOC is now
a home equity loan which home equity
loan guys is not the same thing as a
home equity line of credit on a home
equity loan
yeah it's closed off it's closed ended
you have to pay back that amount just
like a mortgage okay
so they would stop you from drawing more
money because if your home values worth
$175,000 the bank doesn't want you to go
back and draw the the $80,000 even if
you decide to pay off that $80,000 okay
even if the balance is zero on your home
equity line of credit most likely what's
gonna happen is you're gonna either a
lower than limit on the on the home
equity line of credit or just completely
closed it off and cancel it okay just
take the way hate the way the ability
for you to borrow because they don't
want they don't want you to incur more
debt on this on this property now worst
case scenario they may just say hey we
want all that eight thousand eighty
thousand dollars today if you don't do
it we're gonna foreclose that's when
people get in trouble so in this
strategy in our home equity line of
credit strategy debt-free acceleration
strategy the reason why we're trying to
prevent this you know we want to prevent
this obviously because we don't want you
to lose your home the way that we're
preventing this from happening using the
debt free acceleration strategy is that
we're taking down not only that amount
buy all of our income right we're
lowering the balance with all of our
income but we're also at the same time
we're not incurring quote-unquote more
debt and here's what I mean we're not
gonna it we're not incurring more debt
what we're doing is we're going from our
mortgage amount let's say in our
mortgage rhythm again hundred thousand
dollars and we have this HELOC limit of
$80,000 now let's say we didn't spend
any other money on our HELOC and no
buying boats no buying cars no going out
there and spending on Vegas that bad
don't do it what we're doing is we're
taking this balance of $100,000
that we see here on the left and
transferring that balance $80,000
portion now we were left with only
$20,000 portion on the original mortgage
so we're basically transferring debt and
I know there's a lot of people that says
well Sam that's basically like Peter
Payne you know borrowing from Peter to
pay Paul
well not quite you know the way that I
argue on this strategy is the way that
Paul charges interest is different from
Peter okay if if he'll the he'll the way
that he laps charges interest is
completely different from how the
mortgage charges the interest if you go
back and look at our other video how to
pay off your mortgage in five to seven
years we make a perfect clear example of
of what I mean by that but in this
scenario all we're doing is transferring
one debt to another into a more
efficient instrument to pay off our debt
so basically in this scenario we still
owe $100,000 if you didn't incur more
debt we didn't get more debt we still
have a hundred thousand dollars in debt
but what we did is we transferred eighty
thousand dollars with that debt into a
more efficient and an effective
instrument for us to be able to pay off
our debt so here's how we prevent this
calamity of our ghilaf becoming frozen
is as long as you're within the the
balance of your home value as long as
you're not borrowing like crazy
you're good you're gonna be in the safe
zone you're gonna be in the Green Zone
that's actually what happened in 2008
there were group of people that got to
keep their HELOC because first of all
they they play smart they played safe
they didn't borrow a hundred percent of
the HELOC they went to most likely
bought less than thirty or forty percent
of the HELOC staying in the safe zone
and next thing is they made sure that
their LTV loan to value the amount of
debt they they have in compared to their
home value was less than seventy-five
percent that's usually the safe zone
that I like to tell people so stay
within the balance of 75% LTV loan to
value or less and don't go and jack up
the key lock and a hundred percent in
fact I can give you a really bad example
it should be it should be more like
forty thousand or thirty thousand
dollars of the eighty thousand dollar
limit but just give me
illustration of the fact that we didn't
incur more debt we just went from one
debt and transferred into another
vehicle cool so the way to prevent this
is again just kind of give you guys a
recap summary is a don't jack up your
HELOC amounts 100% B don't go and borrow
more than 75 percent loan to value
because we don't want to do that and
make sure that even if there was a big
or major recession our whole our
outstanding debt will be far less than
what our home value would be even if the
recession happens so I hope this video
helps you guys and illustrate what could
potentially happen why and how the bank
could freeze your HELOC and one thing
that I suggest you guys do is read up on
your home equity line of credit
disclosures in your disclosures in the
packet that you got from your banks and
lending institution it's gonna tell you
what constitute as a default what
constitutes for you know for the
freezing of the HELOC you got to read
your disclosures and disclaimers sure to
read what your bank has written down so
guys I hope this video helps understand
this process better how wide the bank
would freeze your HELOC as well as how
to prevent it because we don't want you
to lose your home we certainly don't
want you to get into a foreclosure so
again if you guys want to learn more
about the strategy along with all the
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guys should watch in case you didn't is
how to create passive income using home
equity line of credit
remember how we talked about using the
key lock to buy and acquire
income-producing asset well this video
is gonna explain exactly how we would go
about using a key lock to acquire more
income producing assets so go and watch
that video right here it's gonna be it's
gonna pop up right there and click on
that video and I'll see you in that
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