To help families achieve homeownership, ACHIEVEability operates HomeComing Realty LLC. The office serves ACHIEVEability families and the community at large. ACHIEVEability has begun a homebuyer's club where potential homebuyers learn how to responsibly buy and maintain a home.
Participants learn about the process of buying a home -- shopping for a home, repairing or building their credit, budgeting, obtaining a mortgage, qualifying for a mortgage, closing, and life as a homeowner (including financial management, seasonal inspections, conservation measures, repairs and maintenance, and preventing foreclosure).
Contact Sister Anne Marie Weisglass, RSM, HomeComing Realty's broker at 215-472-5010 or hcrllc@hotmail.com. Sister Anne Marie is an accredited housing counselor and the board president of the Housing Counseling Association of the Delaware Valley.
Since 1981, ACHIEVEability has turned abandoned houses and vacant lots throughout West Philadelphia into over 200 homes—both rental and homeownership units. Our housing development activities help our clients by increasing the supply of safe, affordable housing, while also helping the neighborhoods where the homes are located by renovating unsafe, dilapidated, condemned houses.
ACHIEVEability manages 156 rental units for the families in our program and is currently planning to develop additional units.