A Home On Contract — Buying

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In the third year, the local economy dipped. The clinic where Sarah worked cut hours, and Elias’s carpentry commissions slowed to a trickle. One month, they were two weeks late on the payment. buying a home on contract

For the first time in seven years, Elias and Sarah breathed. The "Land Contract" sign was long gone, replaced by a house that finally, legally, belonged to the people who had been loving it all along. The biggest hurdle, however, wasn’t the monthly payment;