Work For Salt Lake County Foreclosures

Neighborhood Stabilization -the bill provides $2,000,000,000 in additional funding for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).  The NSP was created to provide grants to states and localities to address the problems that can be created when whole neighborhoods are decimated by foreclosures.

The funds can be used to purchase, manage, repair and resell foreclosed and abandoned properties. In addition, the funds can also be used by states and localities to establish financing methods for the purchase and redevelopment of foreclosed properties.  

After purchase the homes must be used to assist individuals and families with incomes at or below 120% of area median income. Twenty-five percent of funds must be used for households with incomes at or below 50% of area median income. 

I don’t think the above formula will solve anything, the projects that have been abandoned in Salt Lake County are a higher price range as I would suspect in most places. To take a vacant project of McMansions and then try to move people in that are at or just above the median income doesn’t make sense. The median income for Salt Lake County is $65,000, times that by 120% = $78,000 if you were to multiply $78,000 by 3.5 you would get a mortgage affordability of $273,000.

Again we don’t have too many of these projects here in Salt Lake, however there are areas that have many vacant projects.

By leveraging their expertise in partnership with others from both the public and private sector, Realtors® in many communities have been making important contributions to their local communities’ neighborhood stabilization programs.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me 801-694-4762 or Rob@Aubrey.net

To promote green jobs and energy independence, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is investing significantly to make homes and buildings more energy efficient.  The bill provides state and local governments with $6 billion in energy efficiency and conservation grants for energy audits, retrofits and financial incentives. 

Through 2010, homeowners will be able to claim a 30% tax credit (up from 10%) for purchases of new furnaces, windows and insulation.  That is a big one, if you were going to replace windows and your cost would be $8,000, you would save $2,400 on your income tax. You would also have to think that window installers and manufacturers are pretty competitive on the bids. These are opportunity times.

Another $5 billion will be available to modernize the nation’s electricity grid and install smart meters on homes that help to save consumers money. 

There is also $5 billion for weatherization assistance for low income households and $2 billion for federally assisted housing {section 8}) efficiency efforts. 

Hint there are qualified areas within about 25-30 minutes of downtown Salt Lake.

Rural Housing

The bill will give an additional ½ Billion dollars to the rural housing programs, the programs consist of guaranteed and direct lending. The additional money will be divided with $270 Million to direct lending and $230 to the guaranteed lending.

The guaranteed program is a loan guarantee through RHS and means that, should the individual borrower default on the loan, RHS will pay the private financier for the loan. The program is available for the purchase and repair of existing and newly constructed dwelling.

Under the Direct Loan program, individuals or families receive direct financial assistance directly from the Rural Housing Service in the form of a home loan at an affordable interest rate. These loans may be made to eligible applicants to buy, build, repair, renovate, or relocate homes, to provide related facilities, or to refinance home debts under certain conditions.

There is no required down payment, but families must be able to afford the mortgage payments, including taxes and insurance. In addition, applicants must be without adequate housing and be unable to obtain credit elsewhere, yet have acceptable credit histories.

These programs come with more restrictions than a cheap airfare. Both Loan Officers and RELATORS that got in the business during the boom are probably not the best solution, so call me if you are interested in finding out more. 801-694-4762

The bill will keep last year’s 2008 limits that expired on December 31st.

These limits were equal to the greater of 125% of the 2008 local area median home price or $271,050 for FHA and $417,000 for Fannie and Freddie, with an overall maximum cap of $729,750. 

Also the bill includes language providing the HUD Secretary with the ability to increase the loan limit for any “sub-area”, i.e.an area smaller than a county.

The Secretary’s discretion is again limited by the $729,750 cap. These 2009 limits will expire December 31, 2009.

Below is a chart showing the 29 Utah Counties loan limits, with Salt Lake and Tooele being the highest. Tooele you ask? The smaller counties that are not given an MSA (metro service area) by the Dept of HUD are attached to another county.

If you have any questions on how to use this credit for your Down Payment Call Me at 801-694-4762.   

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Below is a chart for Salt Lake First Time Home Buyers to compare the new First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit as modified in the American Recovery and reinvestment Act.

If you have any questions on how to use this credit for your Down Payment Call Me at 801-694-4762.   

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Also over on the right sidebar there are links to preview the state approved form that REALTORS use to write offers with.

FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYER TAX CREDIT

As Modified in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Major Modifications Italicized

February 2009

H.R. 1, the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,” passed the House on February 13, 2009, by a vote of 246 – 184. The Senate also passed the bill later that day. The President is expected to sign the bill soon. The bill is a $780 billion package, with roughly 35% of the package devoted to tax cuts (mostly for 2009) and the rest to spending intended to occur in 2009 and 2010.