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You’re ready to buy a home, but there’s a problem – you can’t qualify for a mortgage loan. Maybe your credit score is low, or maybe you simply have too much debt and not enough income coming in each month.
This doesn’t mean that owning a home is out of your reach. You do have an option, and that is to rent-to-own.
In a rent-to-own agreement, you pay monthly rent to the owner of a home, much like you would in any other rental agreement. However, you pay a bit more each month, and that extra money goes toward reducing an agreed-upon final purchase price for the home. After a set period of time – usually from one to five years – you have the option to purchase the home, with the sales price reduced by whatever extra money you paid to the owner during the rental period.
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