Land Contracts are OK for Claiming the $8000.00 Tax Credit
Many of you have asked me and evidentially the Michigan Association of Realtors legal councel has been getting this question too:
Can buyers in Michigan who buy on a land contract claim the $8000.00 tax credit?
Because the Federal Legislation is silent on the issue, Greg McClelland, our legal councel of the Mi Association of Realtors wrote an opinion on it.
If you want the entire opinion, leave me a comment here and I will email it to you.
The bottom line is “there is no rational basis for treating land contract purchases differently than mortgagors for the purpose of the credit.
The ruling is not hard to understand, hey, I even understood it. So I’ll be happy to pass it on.
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Yes same here in MIchigan. Thanks!
I will love to have the full print out about land contract and tax credit. About to sell on land contract and didn’t know if they would qualify.
I emailed it to you.
please send me your opinion. I am closing on a land contract in 10 days and was told that it does qualify for the tax credit because it will be a recorded land contract and i am not buying it from a relative.
I would love to see what the full opinion says. I live in Nebraska and signed a land contract and have been getting mixed results also. Would be much appreciated!
Can you please send me this particular article, on the land contract and allowing me to qualify for 8,000 tax credit ……. I live in Nebraska for the record, thank you in advance .
I too would like the opinion given on this or any other updated material on LCs. What documentation besides form 5405 is required? There is no HUD with a land contract. Is the govt taking people at their word??? Also can the tax credit be assigned to me as a seller to be used as down payment?
please send me info on the tax credit for new home buyer on land contract. thank you.
I am negotiating a land contract right now. Is there a definite “yes” or “no” on the 1st time homebuyer’s credit for a land contract agreement. Would you please send me your article.
Diane, I sent it to you.
Would love the information. I will be selling my home on land contract next month. The buyers want to use the credit for down payment if possible.
Thank you!
I believe that land contracts, if writtten properly qualify for the tax credit….I’d like a copy of the article or opinion of your legal councel…thanks
We are looking into buying a land contract here in Mich. I am new to all this info. He(seller)wants us to just make the payments to his mortgage. What would we have to do to get this tax credit? The house needs some work and this would really help.
Thanks a bunch!
I would love to think creatively in this economy and our government has assisted us in this notion. The IRS has shared the good news that owner financed arrangements will be rewarded for those with wounded credit by allowing this arrangement to be included in the tax credit group. Congress has done its part to encourage wannabe homeowners that are often young people with credit mistakes…
I would like to do my part by entering into an owner finance with a fabulous young couple; however, WELLS FARGO MORTAGAGE COMPANY has informed me that they will excersice the Due-on-Sale clause if I do this… meaning I cannot owner finance these young buyers or WELLS FARGO will call the loan due..
SHAME ON YOU WELLS FARGO for counteracting everything the government and our people are tyring to do for each other in these trying times!!!
I also entered into a land contract and would like to know if I qualify for the credit. Please email the article.
I sent it Ryan. Hope it helps.
Missy, we bought on land contract in August of ’08 it was a 2 year buyout and would come up in August of ’10. If we purchased before August, we it be eligible for the credit? Please send article.
Could you please e-mail me the article..
I purchased a home on a land contract on October 31, 2008. The home I lived in before that was foreclosed on January 2, 2008. I lived in that house for 9 years. Do I qualify for the $6500 tax credit? What dates, years does it include?
Please send me a reply.
Thanks,
Jenny
http://www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com/faq2.php
Emailed it Paul.
My wife and I own a few homes and are selling them through land contract and I would like to know about the tax credit informaiton so I can pass it on to my potential buyers.
Missy could you please email me the entire opinion. Thank you.
We are looking into buying some Detroit properties, and have been told that land contracts might be a way to go. Please send your complete opinion on this. Thank you.
Again 125% mortgages – idiots in banks body did not learn a lesson.
could you send me a copy of what you have so I can look it over? Thanks so much!
Please send me a copy of the full opininion. I have a tenenat who approach me on this issue. Did any of your bloggers who actually did a land contract for their tenants? please share your experiences. Thank you
I am going to sign a land contract next month, and would like to read this opinion.
Could you please email the opinion to me? Thanks!
Missy could you please send me what you have. I signed a land contract back in November and would like to also see what I need to do to get the $8000
Missy could you please send me what you have. I signed a land contract back in April 2009 and would like to see what I need to do to get the $8000
Missy hi could you send me all the infor u have on land contract and also where i could find a land contract home if you know.
Please e-mail the opinion to me. Thanks.
hiya Missy,
Me and my wife entered into a land contract, early 2009 …
only the contract owner – is my father, as i have a less than par credit score. might i be able to claim this?
Also, could you send me the same michigan opinion also?
Any additional information would be greatly appreciated also. thanks alot,
drew
My son is planing on purchasing a home from his inlaws on land contract. Will they qualify for the tax credit.
Thank you in advance for you time.
Sue
I am afraid not it has to be arms length.
Could you please email me the opinion from Mr McClelland.
Thank you
No it needs to be an arms length transaction.
Can u email me the opinion and concerns about what paperwork to send with my return? thx in advance
Please forward me a copy of the information that you have received regarding the land contract tax credit break. Thank you for your assistance!
Justin
Sent
I’d be interested in receiving the opinion, too.
I would like a copy of that attorney’s opinion on land contracts.
Regards,
John
I would like a copy of the attorney’s opinion on land contracts. Mine was entered into 4 years ago, but title is retained by the mortgage issuer until completion in 2009. I was considering that since title hasn’t changed and no foreclosure would be necessary to repossess, then this is a rental with option to purchase at completion.
I will send the opinion. If you are in Michigan then a land contract is a valid sale. My suggestion is to speak to an Accountant or IRS.
John, I emailed you.
Please send me a copy of the option we are getting ready to do a land contract and this would be helpful. Thank you.
Please send me opinion.
I’m frustrated because I can see I should qualify for the credit but because I will be doing a land contract from a close relative, I will not get it, even when I will have “all the burdons on ownership”
Hi Missy Caulk,
I am very interested in receiving the entire opinion on the $8,000 tax credit for a land contract sale. I am a CPA in NJ and have a client in Michigan who is the process of a land contract and wanted to know if it qualified for the $8,000 tax credit. I also thought that this type of sale would qualify.
Diane Radosti
I will email to you.
I am interested in receiving the opinion.
We live in Michigan and are looking to make an offer on a land contract and close in the new few months. This would be our second home the first is in the forecloser process we have lived in this home for over the 5 year requirement. Thanks for your opinion.
If I buy a house in a land contract am I eligible for 8,000 tax credit?