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The Colorado Housing Counseling Coalition
(CHCC)
Promoting Financial Education to Prevent Predatory Lending
Helping to Stop Foreclosure or Assisting with Loss Mitigation
Helping First-Time Home Buyers |
Links to Other Websites
This following is a list of websites that may be of use to you in your search for information on areas of homebuyer preparation,
homebuyer workshops, mortgage default counseling, reverse equity mortgages, and other related housing issues. The Colorado Housing
Counseling Coalition (CHCC) highly recommends that you do your research and then call an organization listed on this website for
counseling or a class.
American Association of Retired Persons
Information on issues affecting individual's age 50 and older. Special sections on housing issues including reverse mortgages and
predatory lending.
www.AARP.org
Annual Free Credit Reports
AnnualCreditReport.com is the official site to help consumers to obtain their free credit report. This central site allows you to
request a free credit file disclosure, commonly called a credit report, once every 12 months from each of the nationwide consumer
credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
www.AnnualFreeReport.com
Benefits Check-Up
A helpful website for seniors to see if they qualify for state or federal help. Sponsored by the National Council on Aging.
www.benefitscheckup.org
Colorado Housing Search
This easy to use website for consumers is jointly sponsored by the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA) and the Colorado
Division of Housing (CoDOH) as a public service to the residents of Colorado. The site was developed through collaboration of
multiple agencies with a common stake in developing, financing, and preserving affordable housing throughout Colorado.
www.coloradohousingsearch.com
Colorado Legal Services
Non-profit that provides legal assistance to low-income residents of Colorado.
www.CoLegalServ.org
Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association
A list of member banks and lenders plus home buyer information, mortgage calculators, other information regarding housing and
banking issues.
www.cmla.com
Credit Bureaus
Visit these website to check your credit rating
www.equifax.com
www.experian.com
www.transunion.com
Debt Advice
Debt Advice is designed to help consumers understand the wise use of credit and locate a caring, certified counselor if they are in
need of assistance. This website is supported by the Members of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NHCC).
www.DebtAdvice.org
Denver/Boulder Better Business Bureau
Investigate before you purchase. The BBB offers reliability reports on businesses and charities. Also offers information on how to
file a complaint.
www.denver.bbb.org
Denver Public Library
A great resource tool for a wide variety of topics
www.denver.lib.co.us
First Gov
Internet gateway to Federal government agencies and online services including forms, regulations and phone directories.
www.FirstGov.gov
Home Buying Guides
A variety of tools to assist potential homebuyers. Offered in six different languages and sponsored by the Fannie Mae Foundation,
this website offers brochures, mortgage calculators, and a link to a lender locator on the Fannie Mae website.
www.homebuyingguide.org
www.FannieMae.com
No Call List
Information and registration for Colorado's No Call List to remove your telephone number from telemarketers' lists.
www.ColoradoNoCall.com
Pharmaceutical Sources
www.NeedyMeds.com
www.PHRMA.org
www.TheMedicineProgram.com
Seniors Blue Book
Offers information to guide seniors and their families in making wise and informed decisions about senior housing and services to
preserve and enhance the quality of life of elders.
www.seniorsresourceguide.com
Stop Mortgage Fraud
This website provides good information about recognizing Mortgage Fraud. The website also has a link to Report Abusive Lending.
www.StopMortgageFraud.com
Colorado Housing & Finance Authority (CHFA)
Home finance section provides information on steps to homeownership, mortgage calculator, and homebuyer education classes.
www.ColoHFA.org
Department of Veterans Affairs - VA
Specific information for individuals who are veterans of military service. Information on housing, VA loans, medical benefits,
VA/Government employment information and special programs for veterans.
www.va.gov
ID Theft
Identity theft is becoming a huge problem in the United States. Everyone is encouraged to be alert to the use of their Social
Security Number. The Federal Trade Commission has developed a website to help educate everyone on this growing problem
www.consumer.gov/idtheft
Federal Trade Commission
Consumer information site highlight and reviews of consumer fraud, waste and abuse.
www.ftc.gov
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to "help you help yourself" by using Medicare's information
resources to answer your questions. If you want to know more, visit the Medicare web site at www.Medicare.gov, call 1-800-MEDICARE
(1-800-633-4227; TTY/TDD 1-877-486-2048), or refer to the handbook, Medicare & You, mailed to people with Medicare each fall.
www.Medicare.gov
Metro Mayors Caucus
Information on loans and down payment assistance to eligible homebuyers in designated metro area cities.
www.MetroMayors.org/PAB.html
United States Rural Development
Rural Development provides information about home loans and grants in rural America.
www.rurdev.usda.gov
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Wide variety of housing information; government policies/regulations for government insured loans, new homebuyer information,
database of housing counseling agencies for all of the United States, funding news, community housing development information and
fair housing information.
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