Competitive Housing Market Presents Challenges for Buyers Using VA Mortgages Veterans counting on using a mortgage backed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to purchase a home in a very hot market...
How to Boost Your Credit Score to Improve Your Chances of Getting a VA Home Loan Mortgages backed by the Department of Veterans Affairs have lots of perks -- but to qualify, you may need to bump up your...
More National Guard Members Now Can Get a VA Home Loan. Here’s How With no down payment required, flexible credit guidelines and limits on closing costs and fees, the VA home loan is a popular...
A VA Renovation Mortgage to Fund a Fixer-Upper: Is It Right for You? The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a renovation loan that funds a home’s purchase price as well as the cost to...
Advice for House Hunting and VA Home Loans How do you decide where to live or how to use a VA loan after a PCS? Deonte Cole and Derrick Abbott offer advice.
How to Handle Military PCS Problems at Your Next Duty Station Without Actually Being There Here's how to understand your future home and deal with all of the things you need to know about it without actually being...
3 Ways to Prepare for Your New Duty Station Before Leaving Your Old One Trying to figure out how to get ready for your next duty station before your move? Here are some tips.
Need Housing? 4 Tips from Military Home Buying Experts Buying the perfect home at your next duty station or post-military location can seem like a risky move, but these two experts...
Military Families 'Going to Lose Every Time' in Hot Fort Bragg Real-Estate Market, Broker Says Amid the hot real-estate market, veterans and military families have struggled to find homes.
Buying Your First Home: Benefit or Burden? Getting that first big job, tying the knot, and owning your first home ― these are some of life’s major milestones. While...
Army Dramatically Expands Combat Patch Eligibility The policy shift, issued last week, covers soldiers who served in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon...
Plans for Mass VA Firings Scuttled, But Department Still Expects 30,000 Employees to Leave on Their Own The announcement walked back previous plans, first revealed in a leaked memo in March, to fire as many as 83,000 employees as...
Colonel Retaliated Against Major for Talking to Congress About Red Hill Contamination, Report Says The report said that investigators substantiated an allegation that an Air Force colonel had retaliated against Army Maj...
Air Force Academy Cutting 140 Positions; Majors Affected? As the Air Force works to cut 5,000 positions before October, the Air Force Academy expects to eliminate 140 jobs.
Mystery on Pacific Seafloor Proves to Be Part of Daring WWII Saga, US Navy Says A mysterious object spotted on the South Pacific seafloor has been identified as the bow of a torpedoed World War II ship...