More tips for first-timers: Your naivete is safe with us! by Miriam Pia
Hm, so there you are furtively wanting a home but silently intimidated by the whole process. Not only that you are not Mr. or Ms. Casholoa and not even Mr. or Ms. Great Salary. So, what do you do other than feel meek? Brave you, you have found a way to begin to look for information about homes, and even about buying.
Here’s something that I found to be simple yet astoundingly helpful. You can actually look at how much you pay in rent and use that to calculate the price of a home that you might well be able to afford. In the example I found, it turned out that $750/month could indicate possibilities for a $150,000 home: I never would have ‘guessed’ that one. Would you have? Of course, most half trained real estate agents would have trouble pretending they did not know that.
This blog is for the whole economic spectrum, so today, we are going to look at home buying services offered to help lower income people and folks who ’just don’t know’. HUD offers services that include step by step instructions to take you through the home buying process at their web site. The online access portal will also connect you to the office nearest to you. Federal and state levels of government have helpful services. Each and every state has a web-link. Did you know that there are even such things as ‘home buying vouchers’- sounds wild doesn’t it.
So there you have it, some helpful hints for hopeful first timers on tight budgets.
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