The VA Home Loan Playbook
A Veteran’s Guide to Buying, Refinancing, and Keeping a Home with Your VA Loan Benefit
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About this book
A Veteran's Guide to Buying, Refinancing, and Keeping a Home with Your VA Loan Benefit
You earned a home loan benefit, and plenty of veterans never use it. Others use a fraction of it. They put money down they didn't have to, or pay a funding fee they didn't owe, because nobody walked them through the rules.
This guide explains how the VA home loan works in plain language, from your Certificate of Eligibility through refinancing, reusing your entitlement, and keeping your home if you fall behind. It's written for the veteran using the benefit, not the lender selling the loan. It won't tell you your rate. It shows you what to ask.
Inside this book
- 1The Benefit You Already Earned
- 2Eligibility and Your Certificate of Eligibility
- 3Entitlement, No Down Payment, and No Mortgage Insurance
- 4The Funding Fee and the Disability Waiver
- 5The Appraisal, Property Standards, and Occupancy
- 6The IRRRL, the Streamline Refinance
- 7The Cash-Out Refinance
- 8Restoring Your Entitlement and Using the Benefit Again
- 9Keeping Your Home If You Fall Behind
- 10Housing Grants for Service-Connected Disabilities
The book comes with a free field guide, Getting Your COE and Starting a VA Home Loan, a free download with no signup.
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Free guideGetting Your COE and Starting a VA Home Loan
Free worksheetCheck It Yourself
Free worksheetTwo Clocks
Free worksheetVA Math Worksheet
J. Erickson
Author, educator, former veteran service officer.
J. Erickson is a service-disabled Air Force veteran. He served as a military firefighter and as a veteran service officer, where he spent years walking veterans through the same claims process he writes about now. He holds an MBA and writes plain-language guides for veterans who want to understand the system without a translator.
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