If you are considering purchasing your first home, whether you’re just in the planning stages or if you have your home selected, now is the time to take this class! Our HUD-certified housing counselors will provide you with the knowledge you need to purchase and sustain your home. You’ll learn how to shop for a mortgage, how to engage a home inspector, budgeting and credit, and much, much more!

Our home buyer education is also available online, so you can take the course at your own pace, on your own schedule.

We have been providing home buyer education classes in Spanish for the past two years, and now the recently added online course is also available in Spanish!

Please click this link for more information on home buyer education!

With the new online presence also comes increased access to down payment assistance funding of up to $5,000.  Income-eligible participants can use this forgivable grant towards either down payment funds on a first home or closing costs incurred as the result of the purchase of a first home.

Anyone interested in learning more about this new on-line class may visit the Homebuyer Education page, or contact the housing department directly at (309) 834-9245 (English) or  (309) 834-9254 (Spanish).

Regardless of whether you are a first-time home buyer or an existing home owner ready to make your next home purchase, MCCA urges you to seek home ownership education from a HUD-approved nonprofit organization, like MCCA, before purchasing a home.