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17 February 2019 | 5 replies
Hey everyone,I officially started my real estate journey in 2016 when I used my VA loan to buy my first single family home.
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22 February 2019 | 2 replies
There may be some slight changes since the official counts come out after all certificates are paid.Rates were up this year along with the number of liens available.
24 February 2019 | 222 replies
We need to solve the other 75% too.This year Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the clean-energy investment fund I’m involved with, announced the first companies we’re putting money into.
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19 February 2019 | 2 replies
@Dina Pearson some banks will loan on land if there is an official plan in place to start building immediately.
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23 January 2020 | 13 replies
Here is the VA's official website which has information straight from them on rules and options https://www.va.gov/housing-assistance/ Aaron
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22 February 2019 | 17 replies
Elect better city officials with more common sense and business acumen.
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28 October 2019 | 14 replies
From an email exchange I had with the city's most senior official on the matter when I was working on a similar challenge:"We don’t use the term "mother-in-law apartment" because it is just a one-family home with more than one kitchen.
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24 February 2019 | 27 replies
We are still building an official communication plan for incidents moving forward.
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20 February 2019 | 6 replies
They have not announced of they will hook up with another group like that.
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3 March 2019 | 18 replies
I did move in and renovated while living there, but no official ever came to verify it actually was my primary residence.