Category Home Loans
How CalVet Ensures that California Veterans are the Most Connected, Protected, and Respected Veterans in the Nation
Veterans Day is our annual national day of gratitude for those who have defended our country and our Constitution. But at CalVet, thanking veterans is a year-round, continuous honor, duty, and privilege. In fact, is it our vision that California’s veterans become the nation’s most connected, most protected, and most respected veterans, and this happens […]
Of Medals and Mettle: Marine Veteran’s Hardware Back Home Nine Years After Theft
With Veterans Day approaching, a Southern California resident went above and beyond the call of duty to show his respect and gratitude to a Marine veteran. Here’s how: One mid-September day, Oceanside resident Greg Workman took his two Great Danes — eight-year-old Guinness and one-year-old Gus — for a walk.
The H Home Run: A Hero, His CalVet Home Loan, and Hispanic Heritage Month
H is for hero, and Army veteran Jose Chavez definitely qualifies. He earned a Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts, and other medals the only way you can get them — the hard way — in Iraq in 2009. H is also for home, which Chavez and his wife, Melissa, moved into in Sacramento County recently […]
Once-Homeless Marine Veteran Home for the Holidays and Beyond
Veteran James Mumma spent more than a half decade sleeping in an abandoned car in the northern Los Angeles County community of Littlerock. “To get out of the elements,” said the 59-year-old who relied upon the survival skills he learned in the U.S. Marine Corps to exist and resourcefulness to subsist. He took on odd […]
CalVet Agents Cut Through Red Tape to Cut Home Loan Deal for Paradise Veteran
(This story first appeared as a Guest Perspective in the State Treasurer’s Office November newsletter.) By the spring of 2023, Navy veteran Sue Bone had given up hope on buying a new home. After her home in Paradise vanished in a wall of flames during the Camp Fire of 2018, she found herself up against […]
First Time Buyer in Awe with CalVet Home Loans Team to the Letter
Another satisfied veteran, another CalVet Home Loans success story. Frequently, CalVet Home Loan agents receive “thank-you” notes, flowers, or letters from veterans whom they’ve helped achieve the dream of homeownership. This one, from U.S. Navy veteran Stephanie Barker of Sacramento, to CalVet Property Agent Adam Cone and his team that includes home loans processor Jamie […]
The Trifecta: CalVet’s Rose Shows His Range in Helping California’s Veterans
How has U.S. Navy veteran Derek Rose served other veterans since coming to CalVet seven years ago? Let us count the ways. Rose served four years in the military which included a two-year assignment in Bahrain. He separated in 2011, and used his Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits to earn his undergraduate degree from Sacramento […]
Fair Enough: CalVet Loan Agent Finally Gets to Meet Veteran Who Was Among His First Clients
Associate Property Agent Christopher Adriano displayed his business cards among the brochures and other materials while representing CalVet’s Home Loans Division at the California State Fair last month. A woman, donning a United States Forest Service shirt, stopped by the booth, read the card, and said, “Are you Chris? You did our home loan.” That […]
CALVET RESIDENTIAL ENRICHED NEIGHBORHOODS OPEN DOORS TO THE FUTURE FOR VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES
PALMDALE – Recently, United States Navy veteran Allen Evans went to check out the progress on his new home under construction in CalVet’s Palmdale Residential Enriched Neighborhood (REN). Before he could reach the home, he and his wife, Cecilia, were approached by a few residents of the development. “They said, ‘Can I help you?’” Evans […]
YES, TEACHER, GRANDMA REALLY WAS A SOLDIER, SPY, GUERILLA, AND SILVER STAR RECIPIENT
As the story goes, when Corporal Magdalena “Maggie” Leones’ granddaughter wrote a report about her grandma for a school assignment, the teacher simply didn’t believe it. Believe what? Or, was the girl simply a grandchild with an overactive imagination? Prove it, the teacher told her. Prove it, Maggie’s granddaughter did. She brought the Silver Star […]
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