How To Buy A Home In Maine
...Everything You'll Need To Know
The Home
Buying Process
The diagram below shows the order of events in the home buying process. With the assistance a an experienced REALTOR, as your guide, the steps from beginning to end could put you in your new home sooner than you think. To navigate through this home buying process, at the bottom of this page click on "Continue" or "Back", or use the navigation at the right to browse through the Maine real estate home buying process.
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Reasons to buy
a home...
...Quality of life
...Tax Deductibility of Mortgage Interest
...Tax Deductibility of Property Taxes
...Appreciation Potential
...Deferred Gain and Capital Gain Treatment
...Once in a Lifetime Exclusion
...Principal Accumulation
...Pride in Your Home
...No Landlord
...Leverage (where else can you buy this size of an investment with 0-3% down)
...The Real Cost of Renting (At $700 per month, with a 6% rental increase per year, you will pay $110,719 over a 10 year period.)
Questions?...Contact us
Money up-front:
What you MAY need to go through this process.
- Earnest money
- Option money
- Inspection fee
- Appraisal
- Credit report
Process Links
Analyze your Needs
Pre-qualification
Properties
- How much home can you afford?
- Your Home Search
- Narrowing the search
- During the home search..
- Working with home builders
The Offer
Mortgage Application
Behind the Scenes
Inspections
Closing
Moving
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