downpayment for home: How to use Cash Gifts as Down Payments
- 06/03/15 05:15 AM
In order to get into the housing market, many homebuyers are accepting gifts from family or friends in order to meet down payment requirements by lenders. In fact, as of 2012, one in five Baby Boomers has either gifted, loaned or co-signed a loan to help children or grandchildren buy their first home.
But along with other borrowing restrictions following the housing bust in 2008, lenders cracked down on down payment gifts, too. No longer can a homebuyer "pass the hat" to relatives and friends in order to come up with enough cash to put down on a home, whether … (0 comments)
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