Category: Tampa Florida Real Estate

First-time homebuyer $8,000 tax credit Tampa Bay Florida

By Robbins Team, July 26, 2009

 

$8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers will end soon.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 expanded the first-time homebuyer credit by increasing the credit amount to $8,000 for purchases made in 2009 before December 1, 2009 which means that first-time home buyers have until November 30, 2009 to take advantage of this opportunity.

Who is considered to be a first-time homebuyer?

According to the IRS taxpayers who have not owned another principal residence at any time during the three years prior to the date of purchase are considered first-time home buyers for tax purposes.

For more information check out the IRS website

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=206291,00.html

November is just around the corner so if you can afford to buy now and are a first-time homebuyer keep this in mind.

~ Lana Robbins

Tampa Florida Real Estate

By Robbins Team, July 24, 2009

Tampa Florida

It is believed that “Tampa” means “sticks of fire” in the Calusa language, a Native American tribe. Other historians claim the name refers to “the place to gather sticks”. “Sticks of fire” may also relate to the high concentration of lightning strikes that Tampa Bay receives every year during the hot and wet summer months.

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