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**8000 Tax Credit First Time Home Buyer Rules For Buying With A Partner** Can you qualify for the 8000 tax credit for first time home buyers if you are buying a house with a partner? if you're not married you can probably still claim the first time home buyer tax credit on your tax return, even if your partner doesn't qualify for the first time home buyer tax credit. Ask a tax professional for help to make sure you maximize the benefits of the 8000 tax credit for first time home buyers. Also, when buying with a partner, it's usually for the best to draw up a partnership agreement about how the home will be purchased.

**$8000 Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension Causes Confusion Over Start Dates, Mobile Home Rules** The home buyer tax credit extension that opened up a home buyer tax credit to trade-up buyers, not just first time home buyers, has caused some confusion over the rules for the home buyer tax credit. The start date has been a big point of concern for the home buyer tax credit extension. Officially, home buyers must close after November 6 to qualify for the home buyer tax credit extension. RV and mobile homes have also caused some confusion. Read below for some of the IRS answers for the home buyer tax credit extension.

**Selling A Home And The Due On Sale Clause** If you are selling your home and are not planning to pay off your loan, you should know that your loan probably has a due on sale clause. The due on sale clause allows the lender to call the loan due. The lender can accelerate the payments owed and force you to pay off what is owed on the loan. If you are the lender on a loan and your borrower sells the property without getting your permission, you should make sure your loan documents have a due on sale clause.

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Getting answers about your income account. What are you supposed to do when a broker seems unable or unwilling to provide you with details about one of your accounts? You do have options: get in touch with a manager, use a different representative or find public data using another company's information. You should always feel as though you are benefiting from the very best customer service.

Ilyce Glink Show Notes - November 15, 2009. Today on the show, we discussed the new Fannie Mae Deed For Lease Program in Detail; the new CreditKarma Survey on credit card debt; The October 2009 Realty Trac Foreclosure survey; Divorce and Mortgages; Mike Rose, a senior loan officer with Bank of America, came on to talk about some of the new mortgage rules with regard to divorce and FHA; Peggy Abkemeier, President of Rent.com discussed a new survey of investment property owners. NEW EBOOKS ON INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE; EBOOK SPECIAL.

**Home Buyer Tax Credit Cut-Off Dates: Do I Qualify?** The $8000 first-time home buyer tax credit has been extended and a new $6500 trade-up buyer tax credit was expanded. Some home buyers are upset because they don't qualify for the home buyer tax credit. It's unfortunate that some people just missed the cut-off dates for the home buyer tax credit, but the tax credits have to begin and end somewhere. Do you qualify for the home buyer tax credit?

**Should I Refinance My Mortgage?** Mortgage interest rates keep falling, now below 5 percent. Should you refinance your mortgage? It's more difficult to get a mortgage refinance in today's lending market, but it might be worthwhile to try to refinance your mortgage. Will it reduce your monthly mortgage payments? Will a mortgage refinance shorten the term of your loan? You need to determine why you want to refinance your mortgage to determine the best refinancing scenario for your loan.

**Loan Modification Help: Get Some Answers From The Bank CEO** Are you in loan modification hell? Like thousands of other people, this reader has filed for a loan modification, but can't get any answers about the future of his loan modification from his lender. The banks are swamped with loan modifications and foreclosures right now, but you deserve answers about the future of your loan, too. If you're not getting anywhere by calling customer services lines and other options, try using the format below to document your loan modification situation and get some answers from the bank CEO.

**$8000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit and Closing On New Construction** If you are buying a home as a first time home buyer or repeat buyer, the extended $8000 credit or the expanded $6500 credit should be of interest to you. But you need to be careful with timing. If you close too late, you might not be entitled to the credit. You must close and move into your new home before the tax credit expires. If you're still working on construction by the time the home buyer tax credits expire, you will not qualify for the $8000 first-time home buyer tax credit or the $6500 trade-up buyer tax credit.