consists of a portal designed to provide information to the public regarding properties owned by the government for public sale. The properties are located throughout the United States including our Commonwealths and Territories in the Pacific and the Caribbean.

USDA - Rural Development is the largest provider of loans directly from the Federal Government to finance single family housing units throughout rural America. Over 400,000 home ownership and repair loans are currently outstanding throughout the United States. Loans are made directly to low and very low income applicants for the purchase, construction, or repair of a home in towns and villages outside metropolitan areas. In addition, Rural Development provides guarantees in rural areas in instances where lenders wish to make loans for the purchase of homes in rural America. For more information about Rural Development, please go to our web site at http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/.

USDA - Farm Services Agency is committed to delivering the highest level of customer service, helping to ensure a strong safety net for America's farmers and ranchers. More than 2,346 state and county offices are the primary distributors of programs in the 48 continental states, as well as Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Farm Services Agency committee members are the local authorities responsible for fairly and equitably resolving local issues while remaining dually and directly accountable to the Secretary of Agriculture and local producers through the elective process. These members make decisions affecting which programs are implemented county-wide, the establishment of allotment and yields, commodity price support loans and payments, cand many more programs. For more information about Farm Services Agency, please go to our web site at http://www.fsa.usda.gov/.