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These days just about anyone can buy a home. If you don’t have a down payment or a realtor, you can still get a house. Even bad credit isn’t stopping people these days from having the American Dream of home ownership. This isn’t necessarily the best thing for a generation that is so far in debt it will take 10 years to get out, not counting a house payment. But in this time of spend, spend, spend and pay it off later it’s a reality.

As people have gotten further into debt and weren’t able to buy homes, loan companies realized that they had to change their thinking to keep selling homes. Almost any mortgage loan company now has a program for those with bad credit. However, it can be risky and even more expensive than it’s actually worth to buy a home through one of these programs.

Many of these bad credit home loan programs claim they can help you get a better credit score, which will help in other areas of your credit report, get out of other debt by having one payment with your mortgage loan as your individual loan for everything, or just that you can afford more than you really can by getting your loan through them.

Of course, they sugar coat it with terms that are warm and fuzzy. Interest rates are much higher for those with bad credit, because they are high-risk individuals. Which means you could be paying $500 per month, not counting property tax and interest, for a $60,000 home. That doesn’t sound like much but once you add in the property tax and interest it could jump as high as $800, possibly more.

While the benefits of rent versus owe are there with a house, you also have to take in consideration that if the water heater breaks, you have to buy a new one regardless of if you actually have the money or not. Now some people can get a home and use it to get out of debt and regain good credit. Unfortunately, that is not easy and truthfully, many people just get further into debt. Try to fix your credit before buying a home so that you can have a lower payment and better interest rate.