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    Home Buyers Club
    

    The Home Buyers Club is an education and home ownership counseling entity. The Club provides mortgage pre-qualification, pre-purchase education, foreclosure-prevention counseling, and support services on an individual and confidential basis to Miami-Dade County residents with the goal of preparing families to acquire and maintain a home. The Club is a community outreach service of the Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation.

    Benefits
    • Membership in the Home Buyers Club
    • Guidance through the maze of affordable home ownership financing options
    • Individual counseling
    • Opportunities to open an Individual Development Account adobe reader logo (if income qualified) 
    • Review and analysis of a tri-merged credit report
    • Mortgage pre-qualification with access to willing lending partners

    Program Activities

    • Pre-Qualification/Pre-Purchase Counseling
    • Initial Interview
    • Purchase Plan Development
    • Budget Determination
    • Credit Counseling
    • Support and Education
    • Home Ownership Workshops
    • Post-Purchase Education
    • Foreclosure Prevention Counseling

    How to Join

    Club Members must be residents of Miami-Dade County, or must desire to own a home in Miami-Dade County. There will be a $50.00 fee to register for the Homebuyer Education Workshop and counseling services provided. A portion of the fee is refundable once you have purchased your home. A $25.00 application fee and a nominal fee of $20.00 is charged to cover the cost of retrieving a club member's credit report during counseling.

    To become a Club Member, you must send a money order with the correct fees payable to Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Foundation, Inc., along with a completed First-Time Home Buyer Pre-Qualification Application adobe reader logo.

    Explanation of fees:

    • One individual homebuyer (borrower). Along with your completed and signed application, you must enclose a $45.00 money order. This amount includes a $25 application fee and $20 for an individual credit report.
    • A married couple buying a home (borrower and co-borrower). Along with your completed and signed application, you must enclose a $45.00 money order. This amount includes a $25 application fee and $20.00 for a joint credit report. 
    • Two individuals buying a home (borrower and co-borrower). Along with your completed and signed application, you must enclose a $65.00 money order. This amount includes a $25 application fee and a $40 fee for two individual credit reports ($20 for each report).
    • More than two individuals buying a home (borrower and co-borrowers). Along with your completed and signed application, you must enclose a money order that would cover the $25 application fee plus a $20 fee for each person’s credit report (examples: three individuals $85, four individuals $105, etc).

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