Determined to provide for her daughter, MonaLisa McArthur walked the road to homeownership
IMPOSSBILE DREAM At night, parties in the other apartments kept her up. During the day, she worried about her daughter walking home from school. At the end the month, she hated writing the rent check. It felt like flushing money down the toilet. She knew the only way out was to buy a home in a safer Worcester neighborhood, but just thinking about this made her feel trapped. “I’m a single mother,” she said. “I thought it was impossible.” This is when MonaLisa McArthur showed courage. She overlooked the impossible, found the path that thousands of other first-time buyers have taken and bought the home she’d been praying for with financing from MHP’s ONE Mortgage Program.
Janiece Diaz said McArthur’s purchase of a home was a victory for everyone at the HomeOwnership Center of Central Mass.
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Her journey is not just an example of how ONE Mortgage and its participating lenders have helped almost 20,000 low- and moderate-income buyers purchase their first home. It’s also an example of how the state’s network of homebuyer education providers helps determined people like McArthur get the information they need to
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