You Can Buy a Home - The keys to homeownership (Chinese). Buying a home is one of the most important purchases you'll ever make. In this brochure, we cover key topics for potential homeowners, including preparing to buy a home, predicting homeownership costs, finding the right home, shopping for a mortgage and making an offer.
Money Management 1-2-3: THREE: Planning a Secure Future. The “Money Management 1-2-3: Be Smart about Money All Your Life” series focuses on basic money skills at the beginner, intermediate and advanced level. Planning a Secure Future focuses on leaving the workforce, retirement, winding down, cutting back, downsizing, living on a reduced budget, using credit wisely, investing for income, Medicare and reverse mortgages. Topics include debt and collections, being underinsured, bankruptcy, medical expenses, estate planning, home equity loans.
Money Management 1-2-3: TWO: Achieving Financial Goals. The “Money Management 1-2-3: Be Smart about Money All Your Life” series focuses on basic money skills at the beginner, intermediate and advanced level. Achieving Financial Goals focuses on recovering from youthful missteps, managing family finances and insurance issues such as homeowner’s, health and life insurance. Topics include budgeting and money management, insurance, saving and building assets, saving for retirement, renting v. homeownership, homeownership, mortgages and investing.
You Can Buy a Home - The keys to homeownership (Spanish). La compra de una vivienda es una de las compras más importantes en la vida. Este folleto trata sobre los temas más importantes para los posibles compradores de una vivienda, incluyendo cómo hacer la compra de una casa, cómo anticipar los costos de ser propietario, cóm encontrar el hogar ideal, cómo comparar préstamos hipotecarios y hacer una oferta.
Keeping Your Home - Protect your investment (Spanish). Las personas que planifican, hacen un presupuesto y ahorran para tener éxito como dueñas de casa tienen muchas más posibilidades de mantener su hogar e incrementar su patrimonio a medida que el valor de su propiedad aumente con los años. Este folleto explica las responsabilidades financieras de los propietarios de una vivienda y cómo administrar estas responsabilidades, cómo mantener y proteger su hogar, y cómo aumentar y conservar el valor líquido de su vivienda.
Successful Homeownership - Leader's Guide. Buying a home is a major achievement. But successful homeownership does not begin and end when the closing documents are signed. This Leader’s Guide provides information and background to help you teach prospective, new and established homeowners what they need to know to be successful at homeownership.
Keeping Your Home - Protect your investment (English). People who plan, budget and save for successful homeownership have a much better chance of keeping a roof over their heads and building wealth as property values increase over the years. This brochure covers the financial responsibilities of homeownership and how to manage them, how to maintain and protect your property, and how to build and preserve your home equity.
Buying a Home - Leader's Guide. The Buying a Home Leaderʼs Guide provides detailed information, written in question-and-answer format, to help teach potential homebuyers how to navigate the often complex process of purchasing a home. The guide covers such topics as how to choose a real estate professional, how to qualify for a mortgage, and what is involved in the settlement (closing) process. It also explains unfamiliar terms and provides tips and suggestions to help the purchase process go more smoothly.
You Can Buy a Home - The keys to homeownership (English). Buying a home is one of the most important purchases you'll ever make. In this brochure, we cover key topics for potential homeowners, including preparing to buy a home, predicting homeownership costs, finding the right home, shopping for a mortgage and making an offer.
ID Theft & Account Fraud - Leader's Guide. This 21-page backgrounder guide is written in question-and-answer format to help you anticipate frequently asked questions about ID theft and account fraud. Reading this guide can help prepare you for in-service or train-the-trainer presentations. Topics include an overview of ID theft and account fraud, how to prevent ID theft, advice for victims and helpful ID theft resources that you can use to find more information or to file complaints.
