While the Department of Veterans Affairs oversees the VA loan program, it doesn’t actually lend money. Instead, a number of VA-approved banks, credit unions, and mortgage companies originate these loans. As such, we’ll use this article to provide an overview of the USAA VA loan. Specifically, we’ll discuss the following: VA Loan Overview USAA Overview […]
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The Department of Veterans Affairs administers the VA loan program, but it doesn’t actually lend. Instead, a number of VA-approved banks, credit unions, and mortgage companies originate these loans. As such, we’ll use this article to provide an overview of the Navy Federal VA loan. Specifically, we’ll discuss the following: VA Loan Overview Navy Federal […]
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Quicken Loans got its start in the mid-1980s as Rock Financial. The company was purchased in 1999 by Intuit Incorporated, and became known as Quicken Loans. The company is a military-friendly mortgage servicer and is a high-volume servicer for VA mortgages and FHA home loans, both government-backed mortgage loan products for owner-occupiers who want to […]
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Lending Tree is a military-friendly service provider offering a range of financial marketplace services to vets and non-military people alike. A small percentage of companies including military credit unions and military-specific financial service companies either restrict their products to military and military-affiliated people; Lending Tree is not that–this company welcomes veterans, military members, dependents, and […]
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PenFed Credit Union, also known as the Pentagon Federal Credit Union, is a members-only financial institution that operates in a similar fashion to other military-friendly credit unions but with a twist. Some of these companies restrict membership to military, military-affiliated, and federal employees. This is also true of PenFed, but this military-friendly lender allows members […]
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Founded in 2002 by two brothers, Veterans United is a military-friendly financial institution that offers VA home loans, conventional mortgages, USDA, and FHA mortgage loans for purchase or refinance. Aimed squarely at veterans, Veterans United Home Loans was honored in 2019 by the Department of Veterans Affairs for issuing the official 24 millionth VA mortgage […]
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Veterans First Mortgage started in 1985 as Freedom Mortgage Corporation. It changed names and ownership status over the years until 2016 when the company rebranded itself as Veterans First Mortgage. In 2017 the company had some of its assets purchased by a division of Barrington Bank & Trust Company and joined Chicago’s Wintrust Financial group. […]
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Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) was established in 1933. Since that time it has grown out of a membership in the single digits to a financial institution with more than nine million customers. NFCU was open only to Navy members until 2008 when membership was opened to include all those associated with the Department of […]
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The United Services Automobile Association, better known to most as USAA, is a financial institution founded in 1922. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, USAA began when a group of 25 military officers decided to start their own company after not being able to get car insurance due military people being labeled as a high-risk group […]
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What are the best military credit unions and banks? For this discussion, we’re not talking about financial institutions that cater to all applicants including military members; these banks and credit unions were created specifically to serve military members, their families, and in most cases other federal employees and their family members. Membership requirements apply and […]
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