Jeff Sargent of ONB Bank discusses the difference between VA loans and FHA loans and why they are important to first time home buyers.

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First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Loan Program with Low Interest Rate FHA Mortgage and Low Down Payment. Government Assistance to purchase Lender Foreclosed Homes. Go To RealEstateMarketingThisWeek.com Part 4 (Excerpt) FHA financing why you should work with a broker 4% appreciation over the last 17 years You mentioned earlier that property values are up 71% long term, even though we had this 50% drop. Youre talking about the average 4% appreciation per year since 1992. Right, I did some calculations I was working on a book last year and one of these days I may get around to publishing it. Its called Real Estates Future and what we were looking at was a statistical model to be able to pick the top and the bottom of all the real estate markets. I hadnt looked at the thing for about a year until I was working with Michael the other day and I started pulling it out and going lets run the model and see where we are in regards to the market, and one of the things I looked at is the last time we saw the bottom of the market was when I was selling houses for the RTC and that was in 1992, the median home price was $76000. Median home price now is $130000. That means from 1992 until now it went up 71%, thats after we just saw a 50% decline. So it is up 4% per year on average, and where else are you going to get a return like that? Even if you put 3.5% down on a house you are getting a heck of a lot more than a 4% return. If you look at the internal rate of return it is significantly …

Sharon Drewyor explains what resources are available through the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency for First Time Homebuyers.