TL;DR: Americans now need to make $120K a year to afford a typical middle-class life and qualify to purchase a home. Minimum.

  • @XTornado@lemmy.ml
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    21 year ago

    Cash I understand, but what’s the reasoning behind sellers preferring regular loans instead?

    • Sybil
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      1 year ago

      USDA isn’t gonna buy a fixer upper. they want people to have safe housing. this might mean the seller is going to need to fix the problems

      for us, we liked that, but it did mean we lost our on a couple bids. which was good: we found a real jewel.

      • @Pulptastic@midwest.social
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        11 year ago

        This. The inspection and repair criteria are higher than for private lending. We sold our house to someone using this program and had to fix stuff that we didn’t need fixed when we bought the house. It wasn’t a huge deal but it did add a week to the process to get it fixed and reinspected.