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How I Used RSPs To Buy A Home

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How I Used RSPs To Buy A Home
The Canada Revenue Agency’s Home Buyers’ Plan (HBP) allows first-time home buyers to borrow up to $25,000 from their RRSP savings to help pay for their first home purchase. It was also a tactic used by MoneyWise writer Rubina when purchasing her current home. Read on for her story.
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When my husband and I bought our first home together in 2009, we wanted to make sure we had a 20 per cent down payment in order to avoid Canada mortgage and housing corporation (CMHC) insurance. It also made us feel better knowing we were starting home ownership with a substantial amount of equity in our home. The house we fell in love with was over our budget, so that meant scrambling to find the extra money to put down. We turned to the Home Buyers’ Plan, which allows you to use your already-saved registered retirement savings plans (RRSP) money to fund the purchase of a house. Since this was my husband’s first home purchase, we decided at the time to take $15,000 out of my husband’s RRSP that we would then add to our down payment…

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