Tag Archives: Home Loans
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 […]
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 […]
FROM SKID ROW TO HOME OWNERSHIP: ANOTHER CALVET HOME LOAN SUCCESS STORY
Kenneth James is happy with his new neighbors. So what if some have four legs and antlers and others use their rattles to let him know they are visiting? As long as they follow social distancing protocols, they are welcome around his home in Bear Valley Springs, near Tehachapi, in the mountains southeast of Bakersfield. […]
IT’S A WRAP: VETERANS GETTING NEW HOMES ON “EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION” SHOW AIRING SUNDAY, MARCH 15
A partnership between the California Department of Veterans Affairs Residential Enriched Neighborhood Program (CalVet REN), the city of Palmdale, and Homes 4 Families Veteran Enriched Neighborhoods® that provides homes to military veterans, will be featured at 8 p.m. Sunday in an episode of HGTV Channel’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”. “This is an amazing partnership and […]
Veterans with CalVet home loans among those sorting out their futures in Paradise
Navy veteran Jim Davis saw an ominous sky as he headed out to the woodwork shop at his home in Paradise one morning in November 2018. “A really strange cloud,” he said. Davis sensed immediately that it soon would be raining fire, not water. He packed up what he could, then quickly left his property. […]
Insight into incredible veteran benefits of a CalVet Farm and Home Loan
Established in 1921, following the return of soldiers from World War I, the CalVet Home Loan program was created to ensure U.S. servicemembers were given an opportunity to find affordable housing in California. What started as a gesture of gratitude is now a competitive, excellent veteran home loan program that is still going strong 97 […]
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