The system is simple and, thus far, largely unavoidable. When a user attempts to make a post, Craigslist asks for verification with a viable phone number. It then automatically calls the number and issues a verification code which must be re-entered for the post to go live.
For the purposes of the IRA distributions, a first-time home buyer is anyone who hasn't owned a present interest in a main home for the previous two years. For example, if your parents have promised to leave you their home in their will, that isn't a present interest in the home, so you still qualify.
Each state defines a first-time home buyer as someone who has never owned a home, or someone who has not owned a home in the past three years. If programs do have a first-time-buyer requirement, that restriction is almost always waived for qualifying veterans or someone buying a home in a state-designated âtarget area.â