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A HELOC is a variable-rate line of credit that lets you borrow funds for a set period and repay them later.

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Julia Sheers and her boyfriend want to buy a house. The housing market in Charlotte, N.C., just won’t let them.

They’ve run into the same wall as millions of other Americans: too few homes they can afford and too much competition for the ones that are in their price range.