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Arlington Heights, IL 60004

Helping our Illinois Military Service men/women, firemen/women, policemen/women, and veterans with home-related expenses because of financial troubles—help us help them

Contacts for more information:

Kathleen Ricketts Hager, Chairperson, Ricketts1American@yahoo.com, 847-302-1395

Peggy Kayser, CEO RANWC/HOH President & Treasurer, Peggy@ranwc.com, 847-506-5050

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06/22/2010

Helping Our Heroes
 

BREAKING NEWS.....

 

Homebuyer tax credit available to some U.S. service members through April 2011. When the homebuyer tax credit was expanded and extended last year, members of the uniformed services, Foreign Service and employees of the intelligence community serving outside the United States were given an extra year to qualify for the credit, according to the IRS. These clients must buy, or enter into a binding contract to buy, on or before April 30, 2011.

 

The REALTOR® Association of NorthWest Chicagoland (RANWC) & RANWC Affiliate Committee are the proud founders of REALTOR® Association of NorthWest Chicagoland Charitable Foundation's Helping Our Heroes.

Helping Our Heroes is a program sponsored by the RANWC Charitable Foundation dedicated to raising money to help active duty Illinois Military Personnel, Veterans, Fire Fighters, and Police Officers with residential-related expenses due to their financial distress.

Our Illinois Heroes are facing financial hardships

Many Illinois Military and Public Service personnel face financial hardships, foreclosure, and eviction from their residences because they and their loved-ones cannot meet residential-related expenses.

They need your help—Helping Our HeroesTM, a volunteer-staffed not-for-profit Charity, is devoted to helping them when others cannot.

About the Foundation & how we distribute the money

The RANWC Charitable Foundation is 501C3 designated. ALL net proceeds from the Helping Our Heroes Program, sponsored by this Foundation, will be distributed to qualifying active duty Illinois Military Personnel, Veterans, Fire Fighters, Police Officers, and Veterans that are in financial distress regarding paying their mortgage and necessary home repairs.

Who have we helped

Helping Our HeroesTM has helped 36 families that were close to foreclosure and eviction.

Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008

Preserving the American Dream for Our Nation’s Veterans. To assist returning soldiers avoid foreclosure, this bill lengthens the time a lender must wait before starting foreclosure from three months to nine months after a soldier returns from service and also provides returning soldiers with one year relief from increases in mortgage interest rates. In addition, the Department of Defense is required to establish a counseling program to ensure veterans and active service members can access assistance if facing financial difficulties. Also included is a provision that increases the VA loan guarantee amount, so that veterans have additional homeownership opportunities. The bill contains provisions to do the following: increase benefits paid to veterans with disabilities such as blindness for the purpose of adapting their housing; provide a moving benefit to servicemen and woman who are forced to move out of rental housing because the owner of the housing was foreclosed on; provide that veterans benefits received in a lump sum are treated the same for the purposes of eligibility for housing assistance as monthly benefits; and to allow the Veterans Administration to provide for improvements and structural alterations to homes of veterans with service-connected disabilities. "

 

 

Information and RSVP's contact:

Kathleen Ricketts
847-302-1395; ricketts1american@yahoo.com

 

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