Be bold. Be cheap. Try to buy a house.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors helps low and moderate income Brooklyn residents to secure quality housing and build financial assets. http://www.nhnhome.org
RecessionGirl has done the investigating for you. After taking NHN’s 12 hour seminar designed to help educate first time homebuyers, RecessionGirl gave NHN two thumbs up.
One of the highlights of the NHN First Time Home buyers program is the federal grant matching program. The program works by providing $2 federal dollars for every $1 you save and is capped at $5,000. You can use this toward your down payment or in conjunction with any other money you may have saved toward the purchase of a first home.
The staff at NHN are friendly and they are not trying to ‘sell’ you anything as they are a non-profit of course. They provide a safe environment for question and answer that might be intimidating if you were to deal directly with brokers, sales people, lenders, attorneys, inspectors, etc.
NHN is committed to providing the highest quality of service in order to:
- Educate and counsel people so they can help themselves
- Organize people so they can act collectively and help one another
- Network with other community organizations
- Serve as an advocate for and conduit of resources in the community.
Smooches to NHN for caring so much about the citizens of The People’s Republic of Brooklyn.
Be bold. Be cheap. Try to buy a house.