Separating Active Duty - Proof of Income

[Sydney Rae]

Greetings,

I am separating from Active Duty w/in 6 months. I am trying to buy a home & I have been pre-approved but the lender says that I will not be approved unless I show that I am either going to re-enlist or have a civilian job lined up for proof of income.

The problem w/ this is that I cannot show proof of civilian employment because I do not have a job lined up nor do i plan to re-enlist.

I have read online that I could provide the letter of intent to re-enlist, and just not follow through w/ it. However this may conflict w/ the Skill Bridge program that I am doing in the last 6 months of my contract which stipulates that I will be separating afterwards.

Note: Skill Bridge is a technical program that helps to transition service members into the civilian employment world by providing trainings for skills such as my program for Software Engineering. The program will set me up with a job after my 6 moths of training, but this will be too late. 

I want to avoid renting, how can I make this work?