Get Started with ACTS

ACTS supports families who are attempting to purchase a home with cash or a loan. We provide one-on-one, HUD-approved home buyer counseling for individuals interested in purchasing a home for owner-occupancy. As a real estate brokerage, ACTS represents families in the purchase of homes for owner occupancy, primarily in central city neighborhoods. ACTS then helps families plan and execute home rehabilitation, with a focus on reclaiming vandalized foreclosures. Our affiliated non-profit partner, ACTS Lending, Inc., provides mortgage loans for rehabilitation projects.

If you would like to buy a home, please attend one of the orientation sessions outlined in the flyer below.

Feel free to fill out the form at the bottom of the page before your orientation to help get things started.

 

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Feel free to fill out the form below before your orientation to help get things started.

(Please note: This form is not considered an application. All potential homeowners are strongly encouraged to attend one of the orientation sessions as outlined above.)

ACTS can represent families and individuals in real estate sales transactions. As licensed Realtors, ACTS identifies and promotes Hot Properties with ridiculously low prices, develops comprehensive lists of homes meeting each family's housing needs and affordability, coordinates and attends home showings, assesses the general condition of homes, writes offers to purchase, develops buying strategies, assists with negotiations of sales contracts, and coordinates all aspects of the journey from an executed sales contract to the final closing and beyond.

ACTS Real Estate Brokers

Families and individuals participate in one-on-one, HUD-approved, and confidential sessions with ACTS Housing Counselors. The goal is to develop an individualized road map on personal finances and credit management success in order to become a home buyer. Sessions include lessons on obtaining a free annual credit report, review of credit history, establishing good credit sources, budgeting, overcoming personal finance and credit obstacles, presenting financial information to lenders in order to qualify for mortgage loans, obtaining a pre-approval for a loan, applying for a loan, accessing grant money and loans, and other steps towards home ownership.

ACTS Financial Coaching and Homebuyer Counseling Team

ACTS represents families during planning, coordination, and execution of rehab plans. As experienced rehab professionals, we help homebuyers with the creation of an itemized list of all repairs needed for safe, code-compliant, and affordable occupancy. We can assist families to obtain proposals from qualified contractors to perform each repair. Once final rehab contracts are executed, ACTS helps homeowners expedite their rehab project. The rehab management service helps families access specialized grant and loan products for qualified rehab projects, coordinates volunteer rehab experiences, and provides professional rehab advice to homeowners completing sweat equity projects.

ACTS Rehab Planning and Management Team

Attending orientation? Take a look at these forms.

Demographic Survey 

Document Checklist 

Credit Authorization

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For more housing resources in the City of Milwaukee see the manual below

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ACTS Housing’s mission is to promote affordable home ownership that fosters a low-income family’s ability to be self-empowered, thereby reducing community blight, neighborhood deterioration, and poverty. ACTS’ strategy is to generate home ownership opportunities for inner-city residents within a targeted neighborhood so that an entire community can be transformed and sustained. ACTS’ team provides home buying services throughout the city of Milwaukee.
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