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If you were to bet on extending the first-time home buyer's credit....jroosevelt@kw.com, Janice Roosevelt, Keller Williams, PA & DE

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Brandywine Valley PARS273421 & De Lic.


If you were to bet, where would you put your money? Talk and indeed, there are bills pending before both bodies of Congress that would extend and increase the   First-Time Buyer Tax Credit . Right now, the credit maxes out at$8,000 tax credit and  expires Nov. 30.

Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat and chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, is co-sponsor of a bill with Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson that would raise the credit amount to a maximum of $15,000.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid of Nevada favors an extension of the current credit. He was quoted by the Las Vegas Sun saying, "It's something we can get done."

Odds are that the credit will be extended and broadened to cover all buyers next year, but the chances of the amount increasing aren't as good, observers say.

What's your take on the impact to your business

Comments(12)

Nathan Burns
Keller Williams Realty - Murfreesboro, TN
ABR

Let the 8,000 First time home buyer expire and offer a 5,000-15,000 tax credit(deepnding on price of home) for ANYBODY who buys a home.

 

 

Aug 28, 2009 04:52 AM
Janice Roosevelt
Keller Williams Brandywine Valley - West Chester, PA
OICP ABR, ePRO,Ecobroker

Nathan, that works for me

Aug 28, 2009 04:56 AM
Mike Saunders
Retired - Athens, GA

Somehow I think there will be attempts to tie to both health care reform and cap and tax.

Aug 28, 2009 05:57 AM
Janice Roosevelt
Keller Williams Brandywine Valley - West Chester, PA
OICP ABR, ePRO,Ecobroker

Mike, that is an intriguing scenario

Aug 28, 2009 07:11 AM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

Janice:  I like Nathan's idea.  Getting people to buy in general, not just first-timers, would be great. 

Aug 28, 2009 08:18 AM
Susan Mangigian
RE/MAX Preferred - West Chester, PA
Chester & Delaware County Homes, Delaware and Ches

Well, personally, I hope they wait until my newsletter, that has been sitting on my desk to be mailed, goes out!  I wrote a good piece about it to my sphere and I need to get it in the mail!  I think they should wait until February/March to do another one and round up an entire new set of buyers.

Aug 28, 2009 11:57 AM
Lou Ludwig
Ludwig & Associates - Boca Raton, FL
Designations Earned CRB, CRS, CIPS, GRI, SRES, TRC

Janice

I feel that in some form the home buyers will continue.

Good Luck and success.

Lou Ludwig

Aug 28, 2009 12:08 PM
Tom Boos
Sine & Monaghan Realtors, Real Living - Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Providing the very best of service to Sellers and

I think the credit will expire and NO additional credits will take their place.  The Government is "out of dough".  It's time for the "market" to make it's corrections without further interference.

Aug 29, 2009 01:07 AM
Janice Roosevelt
Keller Williams Brandywine Valley - West Chester, PA
OICP ABR, ePRO,Ecobroker

Susan, add me to your mailing list. Love to read it

Aug 29, 2009 01:47 AM
Janice Roosevelt
Keller Williams Brandywine Valley - West Chester, PA
OICP ABR, ePRO,Ecobroker

Tom: how do you see the market correcting itself?

Aug 29, 2009 01:47 AM
Janice Roosevelt
Keller Williams Brandywine Valley - West Chester, PA
OICP ABR, ePRO,Ecobroker

Lou: looks like we've got some different opinions going here

Aug 29, 2009 01:48 AM
Ryan Shaughnessy
PREA Signature Realty - www.preasignaturerealty.com - Saint Louis, MO
Broker/Attorney - Your Lafayette Square Real Estate Partner

Janice - Although I do believe that there will be some attempt to move this legislation forward, I don't believe the credit will be extended.  In addition, I am not sure that it should be extended given all of the giveaway programs in place now.

Aug 31, 2009 11:42 PM