Are you a Central Ohio first time buyer? You may be even if you have owned a home previously.
Not a big Madonna fan? Me either but when I read the chart about the First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit the song starts playing in my head. You know the old song I am referring to though don't you? 1984? Wow 25 years ago...
The lyrics to the song go something like...
"Like a virgin
for the very first time...
like a vir-ir-gen"
Maybe there are other lyrics. If so I don't know them. Found 'em...
"But you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
Shiny and new
Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats
Next to mine"
Enough karaoke....the point?
If you do not own a home and have not owned a home for three years, Voila YOU are a virgin first time home buyer again when it comes to the 2009 Home Buyers Tax Credit.
A recent email from NAR (the National Association of Realtors, our trade organization) said:
"To qualify as a “first-time home buyer” the purchaser or his/her spouse may not have owned a residence during the three years prior to the purchase."
More information about buying a home
First time buyers take your $8000 up front- Sadly NOT going to happen it looks like
First time buyer tax credit income limits
Creeping real estate acronyms - real estate lingo for first timers and others
Buying a home; It's about time
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Maureen, you really could have gone without the Madonna reference. Funny.
Realy?