Relatives used to tell me and my wife that we should get back the equity in our home, that we were fools to let that resource “go to waste.” Well now we have a home, a lake house and some acreage all free and clear. The only glitch was when a renting neighbor intercepted our property tax paperwork from our mailbox and managed to get a big mortgage on our house. He got paid and the loan company simply lost the money. The dude is on Death Row at the moment for another deal he did that was less profitable to him.
That would be one scary neighbor...