Personal Financial Planning 13th Edition by Lawrence Gitman,Michael Joehnk,Randy Billingsley

Exercise 31

David and Joan Mead have a home with an appraised value of $180,000 and a mortgage balance of only $90,000. Given that an S L is willing to lend money at a loan-to-value ratio of 75 percent, how big a home equity credit line can David and Joan obtain How much, if any, of this line would qualify as tax-deductible interest if their house originally cost $100,000