Setting Roots

I wanted to make a quick post and ensure everyone knows that the U.S. Government is NOT offering help to home owners via mail or at any site on the web. All assistance to home owners is in the way of tax rebates, or assistance refinancing and the like. The government is not sending out offers in the mail, and will never send you an offer via e-mail. If you get one of these, please ignore them! They are most likely a scam.

Sadly, these things are popping up more and more, and many people are being taken by them, please do not allow yourself to be one of the victims of these scam artists. If you are curious about what help the U.S. government is offering, the best thing to do would be to contact either the Internal Revenue Service (http://www.irs.gov) or the Federal Housing Administration (http://www.fha.gov) directly. Get your information straight from the source, to avoid being the victim of a scam!

As always, please feel free to leave your comments, and send me your questions! Your feedback so far has been great.

First-time home-buyers face an unfamiliar road and risk purchasing the wrong place at the wrong time. Here’s a guide to the potholes.

By Liz Pulliam Weston

Buying your first home is an exercise in faith. You don’t really know what you’re getting into, you’re awash in unfamiliar terminology and everyone you meet seems to have strong (and utterly contradictory) ideas about which way the housing market is headed.

You may not be able to avoid every home-purchase mistake, but you can keep your regrets to a minimum by avoiding the following traps:
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