How do you find out more about the first home-owner program?
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Two ways.  1) start with local lenders.  They usually have in house first time homebuyer mortgage products offered to the low to mod income homebuyer unless you purchase in a targeted neighborhood and then there are usually no income limits.  Typical program is low down payment, allows grant usage and may give assistance or a loan for closing costs.  2)Contact a local housing counseling agency.  For a list of agencies go to www.hud.gov.  \nThey offer housing counseling (so you know what you're doing) and may have down payment assistance or direct you where you can apply.
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I BELIEVE YOU CAN GET THAT INFORMATION THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES.  I KNOW IF YOU ARE ON WELFARE THEY HAVE A FEW PROGRAMS.  ONE THAT I CAN REMEMBER IS CRYSTAL STAIRS.
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I know where i live you can look on the apprasial districts web site and find the owners name. May try it there
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Go to City Hall to find out who owns it.
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I wish I could give you the specific information, but this will at least get you in the right direction.\n\nGo to your county's website and find where you can search the tax assessor records. You should be able to input the property address and find out the owner.\n\nThen, on the same county website, go to where you can search the public records. Enter the name of the owner and you will see all recorded documents. You may be able to find what you need there.\n\nHOWEVER, if you want to know everything, go to a title company and ask them to do a "preliminary title search" on the property. That will give you what you need. Tell them you hope to buy the house and if you do, you will use them for the transaction. They will likely do the title search for free or for a minimal fee.\n\nI hope this helps. I am from Seattle and this is how we do it there.
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My husband and I were truly blessed we we bought our home. There is a program called Ameridream and if you are a first time homebuyer or a minority, the government will cover your downpayment. No gimmicks or paypacks. It was awesome. We saved 5k on the downpayment. We got an interest rate of like 6% and if we did a 80/20 the rate would have been 7.5%.
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You do not need any program. They are all crooks.  I did not use any program.  I own four houses in the Bayarea.  Made $500k in appreciation last year.  Here is what you do.  Look for a fixer upper.  Look at comps (try zilow.com) to see what the market is. Estimate how much it will cost to bring the property up to market.  Offer low enough to get back the repair cost plus 20% to 30% more.  Use option ARM to keep cash flow manageable. As property value goes up pull cash and buy another.  With just 3% to 5% appreciation, you can leverage and get 30% to 35% return (up to 40% with tax savings) .  Not a get rich quick scheeme but you will do very well.
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you can get a letter report from a title company.  the tital company checks to see if there are any liens, etc. on the property.
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Yes there is.  I know that I could view everything about my neighbors including the price they paid for their house, how much it is worth now and everything there is to know about their house and land by looking in the County Tax maps section of the County website.  You will get their names and addresses as well.  \n\nOkay, I went and checked my own again.\n\nDo a google search for your county name plus the words "tax map" and you should find it there, it is all public information.\n\nOnce you get to the tax map you can search by any of the following:\nby Owner Name\nby Parcel ID#\nby Address\nby E-911 Street Range List\n\nI use the address search :)\n\nThen you can just enter the street name.  If you don't enter your house address but only your street name you will get a result returned of everyone on your street.\n\nThis will give you the Owner's name and address along with all kinds of other info.  \n\nRemember, this is the OWNER of the properties, the person who pays the taxes.  If someone rents then you aren't getting their name.\n\nOH, AND ONE MORE THING :)\nYou can find out if renters are living there by clicking on the "Advanced Real Estate Data" link and looking at the billing address.  If the billing address is different than the property's address then chances are they are renters and you probably shouldn't address your announcement to the owners.  In that case you should just address it "To MY NEIGHBOR" or something more friendly than "occupant" :)
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You dont, go to the us gov website and start a lookin!\nhttp://www.firstgov.gov/
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Yes in many cities they have what is called an Urban Homesteading program.  You need to call your city's department of housing and ask if they have such a program. Just put "urban homesteading" into google or yahoo search engine and you'll find tons of information on this topic, then contact your city hall for information specific to your city.
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Contact your local HBA (Home Builder's Association) office.
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Sometimes in open property records , an owner may have a picture on file . My sister found one of her home in the records dated 100 years ago . Besides a picture you can find out who owns it , how much they paid for it ,When they bought it .Call city hall in that state , ask for property information , then ask what is on file and if they can give you a web sight . Good Luck !
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call a realtor. they can give you the information you may need, and if not, they can point you in the direction to obtain the information from the county offices.
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Go to the local Registrar of Deeds (or whatever your local public records office is called) and tell the person there that you would like to look up the information on such-and-such property.  He/she will show you how to use the card file or the computer to do the search.  You need to know either the owner's name or the Legal Description of the property.  If you don't know, the local Tax Collecting Department can give you that information.
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You'd have to do some research to get to the age of the house but your city or county should have and online GIS or Polaris system where you can get some basic information about the property.  An appraiser may be able to help you and a transaction line tracking the house can be gotten at the register of deeds office.  Also sometimes the style of the house can give you a span of when the house was built.  \n\nGood luck.
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your best bet would be to go to the court house where the deed is recorded. look up the current deed on the property. from that deed you can look up who the current owners bought that property from. from that deed you can see who they bought the property from and so on. go back about 60 years.