Tag Archives: CalVet 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 […]
SAN DIEGO-AREA VET, FAMILY FOUND A BETTER WAY WITH CALVET LOAN
Since 1921, more than 426,000 California veterans have enjoyed a better option. Builders or real estate agents will point them toward CalVet, where they can take advantage of its bond-allocated program for veterans and great customer service from skilled and caring loan originators and staff. And depending upon the market conditions, they often find better […]
CALVET’S FIRST HOME LOAN CLIENT: ‘THE BRAVEST MAN IN LOS ANGELES’
In August 1930, Los Angeles Times columnist Lee Shippey went to visit the “bravest man in Los Angeles” and who “lives in a pretty cottage at No. 309 North Townsend Street.” That man was Owen Myers, a U.S. Army veteran who served in Company C, 1st Machine Gun Battalion, First Division, in France during World […]
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH AND CALVET HOME LOAN SUCCESS STORIES ALL ROLLED INTO ONE
During Women’s History Month each March, CalVet Connect tells the stories of some exceptional women veterans who live in the Golden State. This year, CalVet’s Home Loans program turns 100 years old, giving us opportunities to write about our veteran clients as well. Eboni Strader represents both. She’s a disabled U.S. Army veteran and single […]
NEARING THE CENTURY MARK, CALVET HOME LOANS SHARES THE SECRETS TO SUCCESS
For nearly 100 years CalVet Home Loans has helped veterans build, rebuild, and own homes, and it will continue to do so for well into the future.
IN THEIR HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS: ANOTHER CALVET SUCCESS STORY
A few weeks ago, U.S. Army veteran Eric Ornelas and his September bride, Marie, went shopping for lights and other Christmas decorations. For some homeowners, that means picking up more LED strings as they strive to make their homes visible from the International Space Station. Others might scour the clearance racks after the holidays to […]
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