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Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly
The Real Estate Adviser
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December 13, 2001

Equity now offering frequent-renter credit

  • Program lets you build equity toward home purchase while you rent.
  • One of the more difficult and time consuming tasks for graduate students and newcomers to the job market is finding affordable housing – not to mention housing equity.

    Down payment funds are hard to come by when you’ve had little time to save. And, unless some of the monthly outlay is going toward the purchase of property – known as a lease-option agreement – the monthly rent is flushed down the housing tube.


     
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