Thank you to everyone that participated in our college football pool. Congratulations Lori & Steve! Thank you for generously donating your winnings to the Animal Rescue League of Berks County!
If you are a Purple Heart recipient or you know someone who is, please consider this info. Starting January 1, 2020, as part of the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act, Purple Heart recipients will be exempt from paying the funding fee the Department of Veteran Affairs charges on its guaranteed home loans. That could be a savings of thousands of dollars! Learn more here . Do your 2020 plans include purchasing a new home? H.R. 299, signed into law in June 2019, affects VA home loans guaranteed on or after January 1, 2020. The biggest changes in the law are twofold: the loan limits will be raised for VA home loans, and rates will temporarily increase for certain loans by 0.15-.0.30%. For more information about how this might impact you, ask me! I am an MRP certified REALTOR®. If you are considering a VA Home Loan, there are some specific benefits you may not be aware of. There are six unbeatable benefits of using a VA ...
If you or a member of your family are in the military or are a veteran, there are many additional considerations when buying or selling a home. As a Military Relocation Professional, I have the tools available to help ease your transition, no matter what stage of life you are in. I help you every step of the process and can even help you after you buy your home. For example, when natural disasters and severe storms strike, it can be stressful and confusing to know what to do if your home gets damaged. If you used a VA home loan to purchase your home, there are certain steps you can take if your home is affected by a natural disaster to make sure you get the assistance you need. Something else to consider is the exemption for VA home loan funding fees. A VA home loan, backed by the Department of Veteran Affairs, is one of the top benefits used by military veterans. What isn’t always known is that the VA charges a "funding fee" with its loans, whi...
This article is reprinted with permission from my friend Vali G. Heist, Certified Professional Organizer and owner of The Clutter Crew . If you need help with your clutter situation, contact Vali today! -- My husband and I bought our old farmhouse almost 38 years ago when he agreed to sell his sports car to provide the down payment (Thanks Bob!). We have an acre of land with a lot of trees, a pond, a stream, and two barns. We have updated just about every inch of the house and the land...several times over. It's a LOT of work (translation: money pit) and it's not perfect, but we continue to work hard to make it our home. Over the years we have had so many adventures: making apple wine, putting an addition on the house, catching fish and restocking our pond, constructing a new garage (with a second story to serve as a rec room for our son and his friends), redoing the stream (3 times), planting Christmas trees, shrubs and bushes and cutting down trees, shrubs and bushe...
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