Cash-out refinancings stage a comeback

This go-round, homeowners using loans to consolidate debt, not buy boats and cars

From the June issue: The name itself conjures up images of ATMs: cash-outs. Indeed, many associate the term “cash-out refinancing” with the frothy and dangerous days of the real estate boom, when some owners turned their hyperinflating houses into money mills, leveraging their equities to the hilt.

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That didn’t work out so well for a fair number of mortgage holders. [more]