Buying
a home for the first time can be overwhelming. WCHR, with
the NeighborWorks® HomeOwnership
Center of Worcester
www.hocw.net provides an array of services that can
help. Services include
one-to-one credit counseling, multi-family opportunities,
mortgage preparation and application assistance, and introductory
seminars to the mandatory first-time homebuyer training.
Homebuyer training is offered monthly in English and quarterly
in Spanish. To learn more about training, click
here.
The HomeOwnership Center also offers a post-purchase
workshop. It is designed to assist you maintain your
most important investment, your home. Topics covered
will be:
٭ Home
maintenance and repair
٭ Personal
budgeting
٭
Insurance
٭ How to
avoid predatory lending
٭ Early
intervention programs
Home
Improvement Loan Program
The NeighborWorks® Home
Improvement Loan Program, funded by Worcester Community
Housing Resources Loan Fund and Oak Hill CDC, is
designed to help you build on your dream of home ownership
by providing flexible financing options to transform your
home from start to finish.
Participants may be
eligible to receive loan amounts between $2,500 and $50,000 at flexible interest rates with terms up to 15
years.
For more information or
to apply please call the NeighborWorks® HomeOwnership
Center of Worcester at 508-791-2170 or e-mail
info@hocw.net , Miguel Rivera at mrivera@wchr.org
