Sounds too good to be true doesn't it?  The great thing is that is very true and available to anyone who can qualify for the specific guidelines to this program.  This is a great way for buyers to either use that extra money to landscape their new home the way they want, buy those new appliances or just enjoy the financial freedom in their new home.  Sellers can use this as a tool to create traffic on their home that they have for sale as well.   If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. 04/25/2007

I find it so unfortunate when buyers, who are also sellers, decide they would like to move up.  They decide to sell their home, hire an agent, and put it on the market. The next step in their agenda sounds simple; find their new home.  They drive around looking at homes and go to a new home builder on their own.   In this instance, the buyers found the new home they liked, entered into a contract with the home builder's agent and gave a $10,000 deposit.  All seems great; right? Wrong. They didn't realize that the contract was not contingent on the sale of their home so in essence put theirselves in the predicament of owning two homes if theirs didn't sell or completely lose their deposit.  Well, I know you can guess what happened.  Yeap.  Their home did not sell and they have lost their... 03/23/2007