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10/23/2026

594 Fiske Dr, Detroit — $420,000. 3 bed, 3 bath, 3,870 sq ft. Brick, blue shutters, arched window over the door.

People assume down payment assistance can only be for cheap houses. It’s the other way around — living in Detroit is what qualifies you for the biggest program in the state.

Ran it through ZeroDownScout: the City of Detroit program came back at $25,000, and this one is forgivable. Three years in the house as your primary residence and the balance is gone. Down payment and closing costs here run about $29,000, so that brings it to roughly $4,000 to get in. You do have to have lived in Detroit the past 12 months.

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10/21/2026

East Lansing. Four bedrooms, brick, sitting up on a hill like it knows something.

Dropped it into ZeroDownScout and $10,000 in assistance came back. Turns out “too expensive for help” starts at $566,000 in Michigan — not wherever you assumed it did.

If you are interested in learning more, hit up owntheroof.com or owntheroof.com/webinar

or contact me at (248) 252-7283

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10/19/2026

Try finding a five bedroom rental in Allen Park. Go ahead — they don’t exist.

I ran this five bedroom, 4,108 sq ft brick Tudor through ZeroDownScout and MSHDA’s $10,000 down payment assistance came back, because $400,000 is still under the state limit — income decides eligibility, not the price tag. That takes about $15,000 in closing costs down to roughly nine or ten thousand to get into a 4,000 square foot house with a pool.

If you are interested in learning more, hit up owntheroof.com or owntheroof.com/webinar

or contact me at (248) 252-7283

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10/16/2026

Three-bedroom rentals in the same ZIP run about $1,400 a month. The mortgage on this house is also $1,400. Same money — except one builds equity and one doesn’t.

Ran it through ZeroDownScout: 6 down payment assistance programs came back. The biggest is $25,000 from the City of Detroit Down Payment Assistance program, with no repayment as long as you own the home for three years. Closing costs are about $6,000, and the $25K covers those plus the down payment. So about $1,600 out of pocket to move in. Not $16,000.

owntheroof.com | owntheroof.com/webinar | (248) 252-7283

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10/14/2026

Two-bedroom rentals in Harper Woods run $1,300–$1,400 for about 1,000 square feet and one bathroom. The mortgage here lands around $1,900 — $500 more a month for double the space, twice the bathrooms, and a payment nobody raises on you next year.

Ran it through ZeroDownScout: 6 down payment assistance programs came back. Biggest is $10,000 through MSHDA — zero interest, no monthly payment. Closing costs are about $9,000, so that covers those plus most of the down payment. Roughly $2,300 out of pocket to move in. Not $23,000 :)

owntheroof.com | owntheroof.com/webinar | (248) 252-7283

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10/12/2026

Stop waiting for a house with character to show up in your price range.

This one on Longfellow in Royal Oak is swallowed in ivy front to peak. Three bedrooms, 1,958 square feet, minutes from downtown, and the seller just cut $15,000 off the price.

I ran it through ZeroDownScout too — Royal Oak sits well under Michigan’s price cap for down payment assistance programs, so check before you assume you’re priced out.

If you are interested in learning more, hit up owntheroof.com or owntheroof.com/webinar

or contact me at (248) 252-7283

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#48067

10/09/2026

A $1,400 rental in Detroit gets you 900 square feet and one bathroom.

I ran this three bedroom, four bath on Hartwell Street through ZeroDownScout and six down payment assistance programs came back — the biggest being $25,000 from the City of Detroit. That puts the cash to move in at around $2,550 on a 2,644 square foot mid-century brick and fieldstone home.

If you are interested in learning more, hit up owntheroof.com or owntheroof.com/webinar

or contact me at (248) 252-7283

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Android: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.zerodownscout.diy













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10/07/2026

Most renters are already paying what a mortgage would cost. In this free class we'll pull up actual listings, run the real numbers side by side against what the same-size rental goes for, and walk through the Michigan assistance programs that cover the down payment. Wednesday, October 7 at 7PM EST.

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