If you are a service member of extended duty outside the United States for AT LEAST 90 days you can qualify for the home-buyer tax credit. The dates for this service are January 1, 2009 – April 30, 2010. These service members get a 1 YEAR EXTENSION. This means one would need to be under contract by April 30, 2011 and closed by June 30, 2011 to be eligible.
Service members are defined as: Armed Forces, U.S. Foreign Service and the Intelligence Community.
For complete details on this go to the link IRS.gov to get further information. Hope this helps and if you know someone in the service please forward this to them.
