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5 Surprising (and Useful!) Ways to Save for a Down Payment

In Buyers by Doug Phelps

One of the biggest misconceptions of home buying? The 20% down payment. Here’s how to buy with a lot less down. Buying your first home conjures up all kinds of warm and fuzzy emotions: pride, joy, contentment. But before you get to the good stuff, you’ve got to cobble together a down payment, a daunting sum if you follow the …

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Making Home Ownership a Reality

In Buyers by Doug Phelps

Coming up with the down payment has always been a difficult task for most buyers, especially young and first-time folks.  This is especially true in today’s market where a variety of factors – including student loan debt averaging $30,000 for the 20-something market – have made this even tougher to accomplish. As a result, in recent years there’s been a …