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8000 Reasons Get Your Butt In Gear: Deadline for First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Looms
 
Janet  has a way with words doesn't she?  The "Get your butts in gear" was what caught my attention... This is a Re-Blog of a post by Janet Guilbault  in California, a reminder of the fact that you need to be in contract "no later than the end of September."
What Janet said!
 
First time home buyers: Are you still at the computer, doing endless "research" on how to snag the $8000 TAX CREDIT for buying a house this year? 
Does the November 30th deadline seem like a million years away as you think about fireworks (not turkey leftovers)?
First time home buyers: Get your butts in gear. NOW.
This is the wrong time to claim you only get motivated when a deadline looms.
This is the wrong time to tell everyone you are a "last minute kinda person" who pulls an all nighter when you have a term paper, and shops for Christmas presents on December 24th.
Here's why: Buying a house takes longer than you think. There are 8000 reasons you DO NOT want to miss this deadline.
Let's back things up. Do you think OTHER first time home buyers might wait until the last minute? ... more

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