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California Homebuyer Assistance Program for Police, Firefighters & Teachers

by on 7 December 2018in Blog

If you are a firefighter, police officer, teacher, social worker or medical worker in California, you have found the perfect homebuyer assistance program! At EHHAF we offer special gift funds for our nation’s everyday heroes to help you cover your down payment costs.

69% of all Americans own their own home, and yet, less than a third of young service professionals and their families are able to afford a home. There are many reasons for this, including a large student loan burden that makes it more difficult to save up for the down payment and the closing costs. Closing costs can reach into the thousands of dollars on a typical home purchase, which puts ownership out of reach for many public workers. As a grateful nation, we can do better!

EveryDay Hero Housing Housing Assistance Fund, founded in 2011, works with home buyers in California to help them cover their closing costs. Our mission is to expand housing opportunities to teachers, doctors, nurses, fire and police professionals, and social workers and to promote the value of homeownership as the foundation for building strong communities and personal security for men and women serving their communities.

If you are interested in applying for our free gift funds to cover your closing costs, head to our application page and get in touch with our team of expert agents and lenders.

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Florida Homebuyer Assistance Program for Police, Firefighters & Teachers

by on 7 December 2018in Blog

If you are a firefighter, police officer, teacher, social worker or medical worker in Florida, you have found the perfect homebuyer assistance program! At EHHAF we offer special gift funds for our nation’s everyday heroes to help you cover your down payment costs.

69% of all Americans own their own home, and yet, less than a third of young service professionals and their families are able to afford a home. There are many reasons for this, including a large student loan burden that makes it more difficult to save up for the down payment and the closing costs. Closing costs can reach into the thousands of dollars on a typical home purchase, which puts ownership out of reach for many public workers. As a grateful nation, we can do better!

EveryDay Hero Housing Housing Assistance Fund, founded in 2011, works with home buyers in Florida to help them cover their closing costs. Our mission is to expand housing opportunities to teachers, doctors, nurses, fire and police professionals, and social workers and to promote the value of homeownership as the foundation for building strong communities and personal security for men and women serving their communities.

If you are interested in applying for our free gift funds to cover your closing costs, head to our application page and get in touch with our team of expert agents and lenders.

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Helping This Police + Teaching Family

by on 25 June 2018in Blog, Testimonials

It was amazing to work with this couple who do so much for their community. As a police officer and a teacher we were able to bring them into our program to connect them with the resources they need and to work on their behalf to earn them gift funds to cover their closing costs.

“EHHAF has been the best decision of our lives. With their support and guidance, we were able to find our dream home. They were always available for our million questions as we were inexperienced in this process. It truly couldn’t have been a smoother process. Thank you EHHAF for making our dream a reality!”

– Yasel H. and Kelly L.

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We Helped These Teachers Get into a Home

by on 2 January 2018in Blog, Testimonials

Finding a home in a very popular market can be extremely difficult, especially on a teacher’s salary. This testimonial comes from a couple who researched diligently to find a program that would be able to assist teachers in their situation. Luckily, they were able to find our program. We were happy to connect them with the right resources and work to get their closing costs covered through our gift program!

“The Everyday Hero Housing Assistance Fund greatly helped my husband and I find and purchase a house in one of the most expensive regions in the United States to purchase a home. I am a high school teacher of five years and absolutely love my students and the community in which I teach but the cost of living made it difficult to find a home. I researched diligently to find a program that might be able to assist teachers and came across EHHAF. From our communications with our EHHAF agent, to our real estate agent Holly, and the team at Mortgage Solutions Financial, we were able to close on a house we could afford with the closing costs paid for. We are able to continue to live in the area we love and I am able to continue to try to make a positive difference in the lives of the children here. We could not have done it without the Everyday Hero Housing Assistance Fund! Thank you for everything!”

– Teddi and Rodney

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No Program Was as Helpful as Ours

by on 28 August 2017in Blog, Testimonials

At Everyday Hero Housing Assistance Fund, it is our mission to work with public service workers and help them get into new homes while helping them reduce their closing costs. This family below was able to find a new home after more than two years of home hunting troubles. As a teacher and a social worker, they were able to get into our program so we could help them realize their dream!

“My wife and I are so grateful for the help of EHHAF! For over 2 years we looked for the best homes, bank loan offers and programs to assistance us in our home search and no program was as helpful as EHHAF. It was comforting to know that because my wife is a teacher and I’m a social worker that we were finally seen as everyday heroes and that we would receive assistance in purchasing our first home!

The process was convenient, efficient and rewarding. It took just a few months to complete what we had been trying to accomplish for so long. The EHHAF became our heroes when we were able to finally close on a home that we fell in love with!”

– Darrick W.

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Another Satisfied Family

by on 10 February 2017in Blog, Testimonials

We were thrilled to work with this amazing family and get the connected with the agents and loan resources they needed to move their family into a new home. At the end of the process, our team was able to help get their closing costs covered as well.

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Our experience with the Everyday hero was amazing. The EHHAF team helped tremendously and the process went smoothly. Compared to the tons of paperwork involved with buying a house, I didn’t even notice getting approved through EHHAF.

The one thing that I did which helped tremendously is buying a printer that scans and sends the documents directly to your computer. Most of the process is online and requires you to send in documents that you have scanned. Going to Fedex/Kinkos every time you need a document would delay the process and not be feasible.

Have fun and enjoy the process and talk to your neighbors before you buy the house, we found out we have amazing neighbors on both sides!

Thank You,

Shawn H.

9 Facts About Labor Day

by on 2 September 2016in Blog

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Here at Everyday Hero Housing Assistance Fund, Labor Day is very close to our heart. We are honored to have helped so many hard-working public service workers around the country and make available to them our low-cost mortgage program that covers their closing costs.

So to celebrate the occasion we wanted to bring you some little-known facts about this great American holiday:

  1. The first celebrated US Labor Day was on Tuesday, September 5, 1882 in New York City, planned by the Central Labor Union.
  2. 10,000 workers marched from City Hall all the way to 42nd Street and then met with their families in Wendel’s Elm Park for a picnic, concert, and speeches.
  3. Oregon was the first state to celebrate Labor Day as a legal holiday in 1887.
  4. The decision to make Labor Day the first Monday of September was approved on June 28, 1894.
  5. Labor Day started as a part of the labor union movement, to recognize the contributions of men and women in the US workforce, but modernly is seen as a chance to celebrate the last weekend of summer.
  6. Americans worked 12-hour days seven days a week during the 19th century!
  7. The Adamson Act was passed on September 3, 1916 to establish an eight-hour work day.
  8. Historians say the expression “no white after Labor Day” comes from when the upper class would return from their summer vacations and stow away their lightweight, white summer clothes as they returned back to school and work.
  9. There is still a Labor Day parade in New York City, which takes place throughout the 20 blocks north of the 1882 labor march.

We do our best to honor the public service workers, police, firefighters, teachers and medical professionals who are so dedicated to their communities. For many of the folks we have worked with, they wouldn’t have been able to get into a home without the help of our dedicated professionals.

To learn more call 720-932-8249 or email us.

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Firefighter Testimonial

by on 9 March 2016in Blog, Testimonials
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At Everyday Hero Housing Assistance Fund we love to hear back from the people who have used our program to secure free gift funds to cover their closing costs when they buy a home. Take it from this firefighter below who was able to work with us to purchase his new home!

“My thanks to all the wonderful people at the Everyday Heroes Housing Assistance Fund. They were excellent to work with. They helped me find a realtor and mortgage company that were well in-tune with my needs and budget. I would highly recommend them to anyone. My realtor, John Barrett from Keller Williams, and my mortgage broker, Michael DeMorato from Prime Lending, helped me find a house and the right mortgage for my needs. Their professionalism and assistance through every step of the process were greatly appreciated.”

My thanks again,
Brendan Murphy

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We would highly recommend that any eligible hero apply!

by on 21 January 2016in Blog, Testimonials
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“The Everyday Heroes Housing Assistance Fund helped us land the perfect home! My EHHAF agent was very good about explaining the whole process to us and was a pleasure to work with. We were slightly hesitant to use the program when we found out we couldn’t pick our own lender, but their lender blew our expectations out of the water. Even with a large time difference they were always quick to respond and made sure that we understood every step along the way. We locked in a very low interest rate and were even able to close a week early!

We are very thankful for our gift funds, but due to the fact that, in some cases, you receive the funds as a reimbursement after closing, you will still have to be able to cover some up front expense. In our case, we used the funds to cover all of our moving expenses and some minor repairs to the house; which was a big help! We would highly recommend that any eligible hero apply to the program.”

Thank you,
Benjamin

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Medical Worker Testimonial

by on 18 December 2015in Blog, Testimonials

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I am extremely grateful to the team of professionals that facilitated my home purchase, including EveryDay Heroes and their associates: My Everyday hero agents, my loan officer and real estate agent.

Enabled by their efficiency and professionalism, I was able to secure the perfect property for my work and lifestyle.  I am eager to spread the word that in working together, they can match you with a successful search and speedy resolution in this challenging market.

– Patricia