25 Ways to use a HECM
Didier Malagies • June 19, 2024
- Payoff your forward mortgage to eliminate your monthly mortgage payment
- Remodel your home
- Maintain a line of credit for health emergencies and surprises
- Help cover monthly expenses and hold on to the other assets while their value continues to grow
- Help cover monthly expenses and avoid selling assets at depressed values,
- Help pay for health insurance during the early retirement years until Medicare eligibility at 65
- Help pay your Medicare Part B and Part D costs
- Combine life tenure payments with social security and income generated by assets to replace your salary and continue a monthly routine of paying bills from new income.
- Pay for your children's or grandchildren's college or professional education.
- Maintain a "standby" cash reserves to get you through the ups and downs of investment markets and provide more flexibility.
- Combine proceeds with the sale of your current home to buy a new home without monthly mortgage payments.
- Help pay for long-term health care needs.
- Fill the gap in a retirement plan caused by lower than expected returns on your assets.
- Help pay for a retirement plan, estate plan or a will.
- Help pay for short-term-in-home care or physical therapy following an accident or medical episode.
- Convert a room or basement to a living facility for an aging parent, relative or caregiver.
- Set up transportation arrangements for when you are no longer comfortable driving.
- Create a set aside to pay real estate taxes and property insurance.
- Delay collecting social security benefit until it maxes out at age 70.
- Eliminate credit card debt and avoid building new credit debt.
- Help cover expenses between jobs without utilizing other saved assets.
- Help cover expenses and avoid capital gains tax consequences of selling off other assets.
- Purchase health-related technology that enables you to live at home alone.
- Pay of an Uber or Lyft account so you have the mobility and access to appointments and social activities.
- Help your adult children through the family emergencies.
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