If you are thinking about having a home built, here is your chance to learn about the process. Mercedes Homes of Tampa will hold a free home construction seminar at 10 a.m. today at Phillippe Estates, off First Avenue and Duvall Court in Safety Harbor. The site provides basic information and answers common questions about what home equity is and how borrowing from home equity works. It discusses different types of home equity loans, who provides them and the different things you can use a home equity loan for. It also includes information about the risks of home-equity loans.
Browsers can order a free booklet on home-equity borrowing from the site.
The Community Service Foundation offers free classes designed to help first-time home buyers. For those who want to buy a house but are having trouble getting together a down payment, the Community Services Foundation offers a series of five budgeting classes. NationsBank is offering a home buying seminar from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 27 at 6801 Seminole Blvd. N, Suite 263, Clearwater. The classes, which are geared toward first-time home buyers with low to moderate incomes, will cover all phases of home buying.