The Missouri Housing Development Commission has a new TCAL (Tax Credit Advance Loan) program to assist with the down payment on a mortgage. The program that has been making headlines is the American Recovery and reinvestment Act of 2009 which provides up to 8000 in tax incentives for first time homebuyers. The TCAL program allows [...]
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MHDC
November 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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Buying a home?
September 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Sign up for Listingbook! Listingbook provides Web access to the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) with tools to compare properties, search recently sold, currently for sale, see pictures, price, square footage, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, plus so much more. You can save your search criteria, set up auto searches and emails, save properties in a favorite [...]
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Going Mobile – Search for homes on your mobile phone
September 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Coldwell Banker Gundaker is offering a free application that allows you to search for real estate listing while on the go. Using your cell phone you can search the MLS system for properties near your current location, or type in your own criteria to find homes just as you would from your home computer. Searching [...]
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Income Limits for First Time Home Buyer Program
August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The income limits to receive the full benefit of the first time homebuyer tax credit program good through November 30th 2009 is $75,000 for single borrowers and $150,000 for joint borrowers that file a tax return together. For modified adjusted gross income levels above those limits, the credit is adjusted incrementally and eventually falls to [...]
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Building your Credit Score for first time home buyers.
August 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Your credit score is out there representing you to whoever cares to look. This impacts nearly every financial move you make and is one of the key pieces of the credit decision making puzzle. But as my son found out upon his recent college graduation, how do you build a good credit history if you [...]
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Using the First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit as the Down Payment
June 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
No, really, it’s happening now. HUD has announced that they have a new program that allows those eligible for the First Time Homebuyer credit of up to $8000 to sell their right to the tax credit to the FHA approved lender at the time of closing and the lender can apply this tax credit to [...]
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