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ADFA "HomeToOwn" Program 

(ADFA's Mortgage Revenue Bond Program)

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Newr 7.gif (9786 bytes)Effective April 28, 2009:  5.375%
1.00% discount point and 1:00% origination fee

Down Payment Assistance (DPA) Interest Rate:  5.5%
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Our Single Family Staff is listed below, please do not
hesitate to call with any questions may have.

Murray Harding 501-682-5974 mharding@adfa.state.ar.us
Denise Fisher 501-682-5466 dfisher@adfa.state.ar.us
Karen Whitaker 501-682-5930 kwhitaker@adfa.state.ar.us
Dean Norman 501-682-5935 dnorman@adfa.state.ar.us
Virginia Ward 501-682-5918 vward@adfa.state.ar.us
Rachae Frye 501-682-5933 rfrye@adfa.state.ar.us

HomeToOwn Program

  The purpose of ADFA's Single Family Housing Division is to supplement the private sector with the ability to provide safe, sound, and sanitary housing to as many low and moderate income households in Arkansas as possible. The Authority does this through the sale of tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds thus lowering the interest rate that participating lending institutions are able to offer qualified homebuyers. Over 120 banks, mortgage companies and savings and loan institutions participate in the program (see attached).

  To be eligible for loans, an applicant must be a first-time homebuyer (must not have owned his/her principal residence for three years prior to closing the bond loan). Homebuyers purchasing a residence in the following targeted areas need not meet the first-time homebuyer regulation: Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia, Conway, Crawford, Crittenden, Cross, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lee, Lincoln, Madison, Mississippi, Monroe, Nevada, Ouachita, Perry, Phillips, Prairie, St. Francis, Scott, Searcy, White, Woodruff and Yell.

  Borrower's income cannot exceed specified limits. These limits vary by county depending on the number in the family and where the property is located (see attached). Also, purchase price limits for new construction and for existing (previously occupied) housing is now the same for all counties, $200,160.

  The following types of loans are eligible in the program: FHA, V.A., Conventional and FmHA Guaranteed Rural Housing Loans.

HomeToOwn Program Summary Sheet

Are you having trouble making your monthly mortgage payment?
FHA has set up the following toll free hotline providing 24-hour
mortgage counseling in multiple languages: 1-888-995-HOPE (4673)

  For more information about ADFA's HomeToOwn Program call Murray Harding, Single Family Manager at (501) 682-5974.

 

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