First-time Home Buyers Grabbing Houses and Tax Credit

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RISMEDIA, June 4, 2009-(MCT)-Generation Y is getting jazzed about a new $8,000 federal tax credit for first-time home buyers-jumping at the opportunity to move up and out of their rentals.

“The last 90 days I’ve seen it go crazy,” Kevin Foster, a real estate agent with Reece & Nichols in Lee’s Summit, said Tuesday. “Every conference room has been full with agents working on offers, and many are people in their 20s.”

 

Peter Abbey, 26, and his girlfriend, Abigail Barnett, 27, were among them.  Abbey, bar manager at Avenue Bistro in Kansas City, and Barnett, a hospital administrative assistant, had been saving to buy a house the past couple of years but weren’t quite there yet. Until Congress approved the expanded tax credit in February.

 

Now they’re leaving their rented home in the city for their own place in Roeland Park.   Read More...

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