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HOMEOWNERSHIP PROGRAMS BUILT FOR MEMBERSHIP

HomeAhead™ was created to help organizations deliver meaningful homeownership resources without having to build the technology, infrastructure, provider relationships, and member experience themselves. We work with unions, associations, membership organizations, and other affinity groups to develop customized programs that can include websites, technology, calculators, educational resources, homeownership readiness tools, participating provider networks, real estate resources, member benefits, communications, reporting, and other program specific features. The organization maintains its relationship with its members, while HomeAhead provides the infrastructure behind the experience.

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A BENEFIT THAT MATTERS AT EVERY STAGE OF LIFE

Homeownership is not a single transaction. Members may spend years preparing to buy, purchase several homes during their lifetime, refinance, relocate, improve their homes, or simply need better information about decisions involving one of their largest financial assets. That creates an opportunity for membership organizations to provide useful resources and demonstrate membership value over a much longer relationship. HomeAhead was built around that opportunity.

MEMBER FIRST. ORGANIZATION FOCUSED.

Every HomeAhead program should create value for the individual member while strengthening the organization providing the benefit.

Our approach is built around four basic principles: the program should be useful, providing resources members can actually use; simple, making complicated homeownership decisions easier to understand; flexible, allowing programs to be built around the organization rather than forcing organizations into a single structure; and member controlled, allowing members to decide which resources they use, when they move forward, and which providers they choose to engage.

HomeAhead is not a mortgage lender and does not make lending or credit decisions. We provide the technology, program infrastructure, tools, resources, and supporting relationships that help organizations create homeownership programs. Regulated products and services are provided by appropriately licensed providers where applicable.

Let's Build Something Valuable for Your Members.

HomeAhead gives organizations the infrastructure to create a homeownership program around their membership, brand, and goals.

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Important Information

The HomeAhead Platform, Consumer Choice, and Program Benefits

The HomeAhead Homeownership Program, powered by HomeAhead™, is a homeownership preparation platform designed to help HomeAhead Members prepare for homeownership. Through the Program, Members have access to educational resources, planning tools, and a personalized HomeAhead Profile that helps them organize their information and understand how it compares to common public benchmarks before pursuing a mortgage.

Members retain full control over their HomeAhead Profile. Members may choose to print or export their profile and provide it directly to any mortgage lender of their choosing, whether or not that lender participates in the HomeAhead Homeownership Program. The HomeAhead Homeownership Program does not require Members to use a participating lender and does not restrict a Member’s ability to shop for, compare, or obtain mortgage financing outside the Program.

Members who elect to transmit their HomeAhead Profile to a participating lender within the HomeAhead Homeownership Program framework may have access to program-specific benefits available through participating lenders. Certain program benefits are available only on qualifying mortgages originated within the Program framework and are subject to applicable program requirements, lender guidelines, and applicable law. Participating lenders are independent, licensed mortgage lenders. Members remain free to choose any lender and mortgage option that best meets their individual needs.