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First Time Home Buyer Alert -

Kansas City Dream Program

The City of Kansas City, Missouri is now accepting applications from first time home buyers for the KC Dream Program.  Receive a forgivable loan of up to 20% of the sales price for qualified buyers (not to exceed $20,000).  No payments are required on the forgivable loan if you stay in your home 10 years - 10% forgiven each year for 10 years.  Maximum home price is $150,000.  The home must be situated within the Kansas City, Missouri city limits.

Entire household income (all members of the household, including children) may not exceed:

1 person - $39,500          2 people - $45,150
3 people - $50,800          4 people - $56,400
5 people - $60,950          6 people - $65,450
7 people - $69,950          8 people - $74,450

FUNDS ARE LIMITED SO DON'T WAIT!

Call me today and let's get started on the purchase of your new home!

What a great time to sell -- home inventory is lower than last year's, interest rates are low and buyers are coming out!

 Quick Fall Fix-Ups for Your Home -

1.  Paint - Fall is the perfect time to repaint the exterior of your home.   No time for a total paint job...hit the trouble spots: the cut ends of all boards, especially facia boards, where paint peels first.  If you have a little more time, apply a fresh, new coat to all the trim.

 2.  Clean Your Carpets - If your home is smelling kind of musty it may be your carpets.  Nothing brightens and freshens up a room like clean carpets.  You can rent a steam cleaner very inexpensively at most home improvement or even some grocery stores.

 3.  Replace Lightbulbs - Yes, it's still true: replacing even some of your incandescent lightbulbs with high-efficiency compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) saves you money and, depending on where you live, earns you a utility rebate.  With the dark days of winter coming on this is a super easy way to warm up a room.

4.  Scrub Up - Washing your home's exterior, including the windows, makes it look better and helps prevent growth of mold and mildew that feed on dirt.  All you need is a pressure washer, which you can rent at a hardware store for $50-$100 per day.

5.  Money-savers - Looking for one of the biggest energy-wasters: air leaks. Inspect the caulking and seals around windows and add or replace the weather stripping around your exterir doors to prevent heat-sucking drafts. Check for leaks around outlets and switches, and add easy-to-install outlets or switch gaskets as needed. Even floor registers can leak air from a cold crawlspace or basement into ground-floor rooms.

6.  Tune Your Furnace - A finely tuned furnace is almost like a musical instrument, humming along as efficiently as possible while keeping your family warm. This is a job for a professional.

7.  Repair Your Roof - Check your roof for leaks. If you know one exists, fix it before the snow starts to fall.  A word to the wise: If the leak is located at a ridge, a valley, or underneath the roofing, hire a professional.

8.  Stay Warm - Switch out your old manual thermostat for a programmable one, which will be more convenient and accurate. Programmable thermostats contain no mercury and are better for the environment because using less energy reduces greenhouse-gas emissions associated with energy production. Because the thermostat will do the thinking for you and never forget, it will save you money on your utility bills.

9.  Hold in the Heat - Add insulation to your attic and watch your heating bill drop. Check your current insulation level by looking across the span of your attic. If the insulation is just level with or below your floor joists, you should add more--enough to bring your attic to an insulation R-value of 38, or about 10-14 inches, depending on insulation type. When adding insulation, you don't have to use the same type that currently exists in your attic.

 

  

 

 

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