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Financing Your Home >Financial Help

Escalating home prices often cause many first-time buyers to seek help from their families for the down payment on a new home. If your parents are providing financial assistance for the purchase of a home, it is important that you have very clear agreements with them about the conditions under which their help will be provided.

Sit down with your parents to discuss the details of the arrangement. Is the money they are providing a gift or a loan? If it is a gift, be sure to check with your tax expert to minimize the tax implications. If your parents are loaning the money for the down payment, how will it be paid back? Will there be joint ownership with an equity-sharing agreement? Will your parents be named on the ownership papers with you? Are special documents needed?

Whatever form it takes, parents who help their children buy a home give them an incredible gift!

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Ellen Clark
Re/Max Commonwealth Group
1520 Huguenot Road Suite #110
Midlothian, VA. 23113
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Office: 804-794-2150
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Email: ellen@ellenclark.com
Ellen Clark has Twenty years experience in Real Estate industry. She has been a Top Producer since 1996. Ellen Clark is a professional who enjoys what she does. As she says, "I love what I do and hope that is reflected in my work. I am sincerely committed to serving my clients and making their needs a priority. It gives me enormous satisfaction to help people make such an important decision."