Stages of Homeownership Renting • Purchasing • Owning • Selling • Building

When: October 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Central Time)

Where: Everlasting Word Church

Whether you’re renting, getting ready to buy, already own a home, thinking about selling, or want to protect your home and family better, this free workshop is for you.

Join local pros covering:

• Renting & Financial Readiness: How to prepare your finances, credit, and savings for your housing goals.
• Financing a Home: Aurora Bank & Trust will talk mortgage readiness, financing options, down payments, and closing costs.
• Buying & Selling: Realtor Mireya Bañuelos will explain working with a Realtor when buying, owning, or selling.
• Protecting Your Home: Learn about renters and homeowners insurance and protecting your stuff.
• Protecting Your Family & Financial Future: Jerria Donelson will cover life insurance, health coverage, income protection, and building generational wealth.

Who should come? Renters, future buyers, current homeowners, sellers, and families interested in financial protection and wealth building.

Parking’s available in the back. Come learn, ask questions, and find your next step!

Info: Introductions and overview of the journey: renting → preparing → purchasing → owning → protecting → selling/transitioning → building generational wealth

Info: Financial readiness, credit, savings, prequalification/preapproval, mortgage process, down payment, closing costs and assistance resources

Info: When to contact a Realtor, preparing to buy, home search, offers, negotiations, inspections, closing, selling and transitioning to the next home

Info: Audience questions and discussion of how the financial professional, lender and Realtor work together

Info: Renters vs. homeowners insurance, property and liability protection, deductibles, replacement cost, common coverage gaps and changing insurance needs

Info: Income protection, life insurance fundamentals, beneficiaries, protecting the mortgage and helping families maintain assets after a loss

Info: Connecting health coverage, unexpected medical expenses and household financial stability to long-term homeownership

Info: Final questions, resources, referrals and participant next steps

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Everlasting Word Church, 22 North Highland Avenue, Aurora, United States

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