With the passage of the stimulus package, there is an $8,000 dollar refundable tax credit for first-time home buyers in 2009 ('refundable' means if you only paid $7,000 total in taxes, they'll still give you the last $1000) -- Essentially, the government gives you $8,000 if you buy a house this year...This sounds like a pretty amazing deal to me...
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