Apple, Google, and IMO the often overlooked NVIDIA.

This will allow apples to apples comparison because everyone is biding on the exact about of piers needed.

🤷🏻‍♂️All of that rambling aside, you know the property and area better than any of us here tapping away on our iPhones :)

if you get an HO-8 know and understand what it can and cannot do and make sure that when you're shopping you're comparing i to other HO-8 policies to keep things apples to apples.

I sometimes wonder if I had signed on with that little up start in Cupertino ( called Apple) way back when ( I grew up there )  and went into sales and marketing for them ...

I recently bought my very first IPhone just to have something to do while I wait for these deadbeats who don't show and haven't the courtesy to cancel.Gail

Based on my experience, there are a lot of bad apples out there and you need to be knowledgeable enough to identify them prior to hiring them and manage them if a bad apple gets through.  

Austin currently houses offices for Apple, Paypal, Electronic Arts, Google, Intel, Dell Computer, IBM, National Instruments, Xerox, Silicon Labs, Applied Materials, Rackspace, Yodle, HomeAway and many smaller start-ups.  

That way you're comparing apples to apples.

So just make sure you compare this options with conventional financing because you can use 5% down with conventional.You can price them apples to apples to make sure you're chosing the right option.Keep in mind if this is your second use VA has a huge 3.30% VA funding tacked on up front.To make it apples to apples you'll have to hike the VA rate up from where it is now (around 3.375% to about 4.00%) to generate enough lender credit to payoff this 3.30%.