As an active duty military member or veteran, there are quite a few homeownership uncertainties and without doubt questions you may have when purchasing or selling a home. For active duty personnel, buying or selling in tight time windows is extremely crucial. For a veteran, finding the right environment or the right home to meet your personal and family needs is just as important.
For those reasons, it’s necessary to have a veteran-friendly realtor who can help you navigate the market, help with finding financing and grants available to you, and meet your personal needs. Here are the benefits of having a veteran-friendly realtor:
Buying and Selling on Short Notice
If you’re an active duty military member, you know how quickly your assignments can change. While it’s simply part of the service, the housing market doesn’t necessarily understand that which is why it’s that much more important that you use a veteran-friendly realtor.
Veteran-friendly realtors understand the time constraints you and your family are under and can help connect you, your home, and your future home with other veterans or active personnel who find themselves in the same situation. A veteran realtor knows the tricks to buying and selling fast which can make you rest at ease during your transitions.
Along those lines, veteran-friendly realtors know in large part at least what you need both in a home or in a transaction. Speed, of course, is crucial, but finding the right home in the right neighborhood with the access you need to your base or workplace is just as important as buying and selling fast.
If you’re a veteran and have special physical needs or desires to be in certain areas or away from certain stimuli, then a veteran-friendly realtor can help. And while each veteran and his or her circumstances are unique, it’s likely that a veteran realtor has a solution or can enlist the help necessary to accommodate your needs.
Understanding the VA Process
As a serviceman or woman, you’re likely going the way of a VA loan. And while realtors aren’t lenders, a veteran-friendly realtor should be very well versed in the home side of VA loans and what the VA requires out of a home. While your lender will ultimately be the one to sign off on everything, a savvy veteran friendly realtor can help expedite the process.
VA homes must meet certain requirements to ensure the safety and structural soundness of a home to protect veterans and their families. These requirements in short are known as safety, sanitation, and structural integrity. Anything in the home that by and large compromises any one of those principals will need to be repaired or remedied and a veteran-friendly realtor can be on top of that before it’s too late.
Veteran-Friendly Lenders
Finally, on the financial side of your dealings, a veteran-friendly realtor can direct you to an equally veteran friendly lender with experience working with veterans and VA loans. VA loans are designed for you, but can sometimes be a little tricky to navigate for the uninitiated.
For that reason alone, you should look for veteran-friendly lenders with decades of experience helping both active duty personnel, veterans, and their families find the right mortgage solution.
Tidewater Mortgage Services, Inc. 20 years of experience has seen countless veteran and civilian homeowners buy the house they need on the terms that work for them. Fill out our online application today and get pre-qualified for a mortgage and get on your way to buying or selling fast.
