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Financial Fitness, Home Ownership, Foreclosure Prevention

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The Greater Lansing Housing Coalition offers these free services:
  • Prevention of home foreclosures
  • Home-Buyer Education
  • Pre-Home Purchase Counseling
  • Credit Counseling
Visit them at 600 Maple Street, Lansing, Michigan 48906, (517) 372-5980, or info@glhc.org.

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The Center for Financial Health offers these free services:

Home Ownership Promotion
We are committed to strengthening Michigan communities through homeownership and are focused on our mission to help families and individuals build assets through homeownership by providing education, pre-purchase counseling and affordable financing services, with an empahsis on serving low-to-moderate income households.

Home Ownership Preservation
We are dedicated to helping Michigan home owners stay in their homes. Our HUD and MSHDA-approved housing counslors help home owners reduce foreclosure effects by meeting one-on-one with clients to determine the best path to either resolve a foreclosure or mitigate the effects of a foreclosure. Counseling also offers assistance in dealing with lenders, submitting requests for loan modifications and explaining how to avoid predatory lending.

Financial Fitness and Homeownership
Managing your money and your credit can sometimes feel like a full time job and balancing that with your busy life can be stressful. CFH offers tips and tricks to successful money management and everything you need to know to manage your personal finances and improve your credit to help you realize the dream of homeownership.

Community Events
CFH's committment to deliver comprehensive training, education and counseling services doesn't end in the office. As a collaborator, we work jointly with partners and stakeholders in our community to increase outreach to Michigan neighborhoods.

Visit them at Center for Financial Health • 230 N. Washington Square, Suite 201 • Lansing, MI 48933
Phone (517) 708-2550 •  Fax (517) 708-2876 • E-mail info@centerforfinancialhealth.org.

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The Homebuyers Club provides information and tools to potential home buyers who have less than perfect credit, are worried about having enough for a down payment, have little or no savings or are renters starting to think about home ownership.