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Housing Decisions

Around the House Solutions new!
Recently updated website features information about creating a safe home environment. This includes everything you ever thought to ask about stain removal, plus more!

Household and Personal Property Inventory Book
A workbook designed to help people create a permanent and accurate record of their possessions should disaster strike.

Home Ownership: Can You Afford It?
This planning guide on CD-ROM can help you make one of the most important decisions of your life - whether you can afford to buy a home and still pay for other family living expenses. Easy-to-use calculators let you play with different down payment, interest rate, and purchase price scenarios.

Insuring Your Home
Explains how to keep your insurance costs down without sacrificing the protection you need.

Opening Doors to Housing Success Fact Sheets Are Available in Spanish
Buying a house is a major financial decision. The fact sheets in this series can help you decide if you can afford to buy a house, if refinancing a mortgage is wise, and if a home equity loan is right for you. Fact sheets also cover the financial aspects of buying insurance and maintaining a house. The fact sheets are in both English and Spanish.

Safely Aging in Place new!
Useful ideas of how to adapt your home so that you can stay in your home as you age.

 

Reviewed and updated as of November 2003

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Consumer and Family Economics
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Extension
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign