Eligible Improvements

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Below is a list of eligible improvements for the PHIL Loan program. If you do not see your desired improvement on this list, check Ineligible Improvenments. Generally, improvements must become part of the real estate as opposed to personal property.

Eligible Improvements*

Abutments
Acoustical tile
Additions to structures
Air conditioning - central
Aluminum panels
Asphalt siding
Attic fans
Awnings
Basements
Bathrooms (fixtures & connections)
Bathtubs, enclosures
Black topping
Blinds; venetian, vertical
Blowers; furnace
Boilers
Brick shingles or siding
Burglar alarms - hard wired
Burners; furnace, oil, gas
Cabinets
Carpet: wall-to-wall
Casements, window
Ceilings
Chimneys
Curbing
Decks: not for hot tub use or around a swimming pool
Dishwashers (permanent)
Doors
Downspouts
Driveways
Elevators
Exhaust fans
Exterior finishing work

Fans: permanently attached
Fences
Fire doors
Fire escapes
Fire sprinkler systems
Fireplaces (not outdoors)
Flooring
Flues
Foundations

Furnaces
Garages: attached to house
Garbage disposal units 
Gas heating systems 
Guard rails 
Gutters
Heat control devices
Heating systems
Insulation
Jacuzzi: within bathroom
Jalousies
Kitchen cabinets; built-in
Lattice work
Laundry chutes: built-in
Laundry tubs
Lawn sprinklers: permanently installed in ground
Moulding 
Oil burners
Outlets, electric
Painting 
Paneling 
Papering
Partitions 
Patios
Paving 
Piping 
Plastering 

Plumbing 
Porches 
Pumps
Radiators: permanently installed
Railings
Registers, heat

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Resurfacing
Retaining walls
Roof coatings
Roofing
Safes: permanently installed
Sanding
Sashes
Screening
Shingles
Shower doors
Shutters 
Sidewalks (private)
Siding
Sills
Sinks
Sprinkler systems; fire, lawn
Stairs 
Stone siding 
Storm doors 
Storm panels 
Storm windows 
Stuccoing 
Termite control
Tiles; ceiling, ceramic, floor (when cemented), plastic, mirror wall tiles 
Vents
Walls
Water heaters 
Water systems 
Waterproofing
Weather-stripping 
Windows 
Wiring, electric
Wood panelling
Wood shingles
Wood siding

*The lender's agent will make a final determination on the eligibility of the improvement based on the description of the improvement in the contractor's estimate and a review of the HUD's Title I Current List of Eligible/Ineligible Improvements.

           

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