down-payment from RRSP’s

If you as a first-time home-buyer are planning to buy your home this year and are facing the question of where will you get the down payment from? This article is for you.

One can only admit that the advantages given, by the Government of Canada when it comes to promoting homeownership are fabulous; opportunities like this should be seized, especially by those whose finances have been tight before, not allowing enough savings being allocate towards the down payment of that home that is most needed now in order to stop renting, and contributing to the payments of someone else’s mortgage. Why not contribute to the payments of your own mortgage instead?….Before it gets harder!

The Government of Canada recently announced the minimum down payment requirement will be increased from 5% to 10% on the portion of a purchase price for a property that is above $500,000 but less than $1 million on insured mortgages. This change will take effect on February 15, 2016

Getting the down payment from your RRSP’s is a very smart strategy that makes way to a greater downpayment, it requires a careful planning and commitment but it works beautifully, the greater your down payment is, the better the mortgage is for you, try it!

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The next is just an intro on how it could work for you:

• Read your T4’s just received by your employer, or your last week of December’s pay stub find out how much taxes you have been already deducted, and that you possibly consider now gone.
• Calculate here what you have earned, the taxes that you have already paid and see  enter an amount that you are eligible to contribute towards your RRSP’s (see your last’s year notice of assessment from Revenue Canada), you may still add more than what you are eligible for.
• If your tax return increases then this plan should work wonders for you.
• Submit your online mortgage assessment application and start your process that will start sharpening numbers to give you clarity as of when you can afford to buy your home, how much you can afford, how much taxes you can save and how much returns you can also get in the following year.

You are on time to recuperate those taxes that you were already deducted from your paycheck, do not procrastinate and sieze the opportunity now!

Once we practice your mortgage assessment you will be in a better position to decide is this strategy works for you, you will also have a greater knowledge to visualize when you will finally be able to purchase your home. Not every family’s financial situation are the same, your situation is unique, that is why your mortgage assessment should be unique as well