Who else don't qualify for a long-time homeowner tax credit?

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we don't qualify because we bought our house on august 2009, and this is our second house, we are trying to sell our first house, without success, meanwhile everybody else is getting a tax credit, I think this is so not fair at all, we also are tax payers, they should do it for all 2009 house buyers.

Update:

you don't have to sell the old residence to qualify, but the new one does have to become your primary residence.

Answer 1

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No, fair would have been having NO credit at all.

I'm not moving, so MY tax dollars are paying for people who would have bought and moved anyway.

Answer 2

Why should they? Should they also give it to people who bought in 2008? 2007? 2006? There MUST be a cut-off at some point.....you just happen to be on the wrong side of it. No matter WHEN the cut-off is, SOMEONE will be crying that it should be extended. Also, you claim about "everyone else" getting a credit is ignorant at best. Lastly, you have not even sold your house yet!!! That is the #1 requirement for that tax credit. So you are crying about not getting a tax credit that you are not even eligible for EVEN if it was extended to all of 2009.

Ignorance is bliss!!!!