A single woman moved to Baltimore for $15K in housing incentives, but experts warn $16K in hidden home costs could erase the benefit

When Kourtnee Turner decided to buy her first home, she didn’t just pick a city she loved, but a city that would pay her to move there. (1)

Turner told Business Insider she strategically relocated from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Baltimore, Maryland, to stack housing incentives worth over $15,000.

She used the Maryland SmartBuy Program, which pays off student loans for local homebuyers, plus a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant and a $5,000 Trolley Tour Lottery grant through Live Baltimore…

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