Housing is one of the issues US President Barack Obama has been tackling since he entered the presidency. The new home stimulus package that he has implemented has as its purpose the boosting of the housing industry by making homes more affordable. It helps lower income Americans to purchase new homes or to pay for repairs and improvements to their current homes.
With more and more people losing their jobs and facing mortgage foreclosure due to the ongoing global economic crisis, a home stimulus package like this is important in providing hundreds of thousands of Americans with homes to live in during these troubled times. The latest improvements to the affordable home plan packages makes them even more beneficial to US citizens that ever before. For example, just this August an amendment was made to the home stimulus package. There were numerous changes made. For example, you can now benefit from the plan even if your equity is lower than twenty percent, so more Americans can now benefit from the package.
Secondly, the interest rate for paying back home loans has been lowered from 6.5 percent to 5.16 percent. This was done so it will be easier for people to pay off their debts. Not only that, the period in which the loans must be paid back was also extended. Furthermore, payments need now be no more than 31% of your monthly income, which means that you can totally cover the other needs of your family before allocating money towards these debt repayments.
To put these changes into real life perspective, I’ll tell you about a friend of mine; he had wanted to purchase a new home for the past 6 months but was unable to do so, even with the former home stimulus package in place, because he had an equity of only’%. Also, he was aware that even if he had had the necessary amount of equity, he would have had hard time repaying the loan due to the interest rate being beyond his means. However, with these latest changes to the home stimulus package he has now finally been able to buy the house he has dreamt so long about. For him, these changes really have been a blessing, and he is most thankful to President Barack Obama.
That is just one of many success stories to come from this home stimulus package, and there are of course other advantages and benefits that I haven’t been able to cover in this article. Keep in mind though, that you’re not qualified for the first time home buyer stimulus tax credit if your income is higher than $95,000 (single) or $170,000 (married). If your income is is lower than that, then you really are doing yourself an injustice by not at least researching further this great opportunity.
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