 | Home mortgage loans are liabilities that help you in creating an asset over a period of time (and it is a long-long period of time). The asset that the home mortgage loans create is your home (your Washington home in this case). So, as you make your monthly home mortgage loan payments, you build home equity and once you have paid off your last monthly mortgage payment (or made a pre-payment of your home mortgage loan), you own the home completely without any liability of mortgage. |
This home is now your asset. However, life is very unpredictable and if some unfortunate event causes death or terminal illness to you (while you are still to completely pay off your home mortgage loan), your home mortgage loan will become a burden for your family.
