The author writes: “Ten years ago I was horrified by my parent’s use of our family home as a source of cash, but now I see things differently. Would it have been better to have paid off the house and lived mortgage free? Maybe. But going that route would surely have meant curtailing their choices earlier — never giving their kids college tuition, or working extremely long hours, or having to get corporate jobs instead of working for themselves.”
To use your equity or to let it build up? That is the question.
