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Temecula First Time Home Buyers – Funds still available for Down Payment Assistance

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Riverside County Down Payment Assistance

Qualified First Time Home Buyers in Temecula, Murrieta and other portions of Riverside County have down payment assistance waiting for them from the County of Riverside, including a first time home buyer tax credit that can be used IN ADDITION to the $8000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit offered by the Federal Government.

The Riverside County down payment assistance programs are designed to help qualified low and moderate income first time homebuyers with down payment assistance up to 20% of the purchase price. Riverside County has four programs, and the qualifications vary with each program. (more…)

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Temecula First Time Home Buyers – The “Payment Buster is here!

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Among the challenges facing Temecula First Time Home Buyers and first time home buyers in Murrieta, Riverside and San Diego is the almost inevitable increase in monthly housing expense.

For Ray and Maureen, it was no different. They had been renting a nice one bedroom apartment for $1000 a month. They liked the apartment, it’s location, and the amenities but it was starting to feel “small” and it wasn’t theirs. They both had good jobs and had been able to put away a nice “nest egg”, but they both wanted to own a place they could call their home and most importantly could afford. (more…)

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Temecula First Time Home Buyers become First Time Homeowners

Friday, January 1st, 2010

First Time Home Buyer Dream

Mark, a firefighter, and Shanna, a stay at home mom had been planning to buy their first home from the day they were married seven years ago. Like most couples at the time home prices made it seem like just a dream. When the twins arrived two years later, things naturally got a little tight and they put that dream on hold.

When the housing market in Southern California began to implode and home prices dropped, they felt a glimmer of hope that maybe their dream wasn’t dead after all. They checked the internet, newspapers, and home magazines. When Mark had a weekend off, they would visit open houses religiously in search of their first home. (more…)

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