HUD - Housing Counseling

Good News!
The Department of Housing & Urban Development has granted $60 million earmarked to provide counseling for families with financial matters in housing to avoid foreclosure.

This money will be shared with 22 housing counseling agencies in Aurora, Boulder, Canon City, Colorado Springs, Commerce City, Denver, Durango, Fort Collins, Lone Tree and Westminster. If you live in one of these listed cities, and having troubles making house payments, you should get in touch with the City, and see how they can assist you.

The counselors will help homeowners avoid predatory lenders with subprime mortgages, unreasonably high interest rates, high fees or unaffordable repayment terms.

You can contact individual agencies found on the HUD web site: www.hud.gov/colorado or by calling the local housing authority.

Joan Cox, GRI,ABR, CRS, e-Pro
Metro Brokers - House to Home, Inc.
c: 720-231-6373
Joan@JoanCox.com
www.HousetoHomeInc.com

Safety in the Homeplace

I recently attended a safety class in which I learned alot of things that would help my client/reader base in their home place.

If you have a keypad for your garage door, make sure you keep the keypad number clean. If you continually use the same numbers, they will become dirty, and would be burglars can figure out the combination.

Many times women are on the phone, and would be burglars can follow cars without being noticed. You pull into your garage (on the phone), and you do not even notice there was a car following, and they follow you into your home. Pay attention as you get closer to your personal home.

Just a few things I learned --- good tips, would have never thought about!

Joan Cox
Metro Brokers - House to Home, Inc.
720-231-6373
www.JoanCox.com