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.
HOME buyers trying to scrape together enough money to cover the typical 20 percent down payment frequently look to relatives for help. In a National Association of Realtors survey of people who bought homes from July 2011 to June 2012, about a quarter of first-time buyers relied in part on gifts from relatives. âTypically, thatâs the Bank of Mom and Dad,â said Walter Molony, a spokesman for the association.