Military Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
VA loans?
Has anyone here used a VA loan to purchase a new house? Do the pros outweigh the cons when compared with a normal loan? SO and I would be first-time homeowners and just started looking into. Any warnings or thoughts?
Re: VA loans?
I used my VA certificate 3 times so far. First time was on a new construction house, VA funding fee is cheapest the 1st time around, we didn't need to put a down payment on the house and no PMI. THe VA does require an inspection and they have more items that have to be passed.
I didn't have any problem getting my certificate back after each house sold, it does take a little time when requesting one so plan ahead when house hunting.
We have a 30 year fixed VA Loan. We've refinanced 2x now using the IRRRL (VA Streamline Refinance). Our original loan was at 6% and we are now at 4%. It's an amazing refinance program that requires NO money, NO credit check, you get your current impound account money back AND you can skip up to 2 mortgage payments (just gets tacked on to the backside of your loan).
I love our VA loan. It was an incredible tool to us as first-time homebuyers with no down payment. We were able to get 100% financing.