First-time home buyers in Oklahoma shrugging off $7,500 federal help

 
By Richard Mize
Published: September 6, 2008

Want-to-be first-time home buyers in Oklahoma seem to be shrugging off the $7,500 federal tax credit included in the big housing recovery law enacted in July, but another round of state housing bond money has people's attention, Realtors and lenders said.

And neither the two shall meet.

People buying a home financed by proceeds from tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds aren't eligible to claim the tax credit, said ...


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