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This is about the way it feels to be down and out and homeless.
ESOL students used real estate ads to imagine a house they would like to live in.
Beginning level ESOL students in California describe homes they want to live in.
Students from four ESOL learning centers in the Boston area wrote about their dream houses.
ESOL students in Chinatown, Boston wrote about their dream houses and presented their research on how to buy a house for real.
If you rent an apartment, the landlord is responsible for some things and the tenant has other responsibilities. Click on this apartment picture to find out who has to do what.
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- This is an apartment hunters' Web site for ESL students.
- These advantages and disadvantages of buying a house are suggested by intermediate ESOL students from SCALE in Somerville, MA.
More advantages and dissadvantages are presented by other students from the Salem Harbor CDC Program.
Here's some more advice for you if you are thinking about buying a house.
Places that feel like home to ESOL students.
- Read about the kind of house ESOL students want in Somerville, MA.
- See what kind of location is best: city or suburbs.
- This is an apartment hunters' Web site for ESL students.
You can take a 1st time home buyer's class in Cambridge.
You need to be careful about the things you may need to fix after you buy a house. This includes lead paint.
You can use this small housing dictionary to check the new words about credit.
A banker talks about credit, credit cards and how to get normal credit or alternative credit.
You can also listen to a realtor talk about "equity" and about buying instead of renting.
This is a resource page with information about credit and mortgages.
This is what "good credit" means.
This Chinatown student wrote about home buying and explained how good credit helps you get a mortgage.
These students from Project Lift at the Cambridge Learning Center visited a bank and learned about credit history and mortgages.
You can get a mortgage without a green card and it shouldn't cost more that way.
You need to shop around to find out about the price.
You have to know yourself too.
ESOL students visited with a Chinese broker in Quincy, MA
Read what students at Quincy College have to say about discrimination and housing problems.