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Yes, you CAN buy a home for a dollar!  Thanks to the Liz Moore & Associates $1 VA Move In program, qualified VA buyers in Hampton Roads, Virginia can make their homeownership dreams come true with no money down!

Here is how it works:  Participating Liz Moore listings with sales prices up to the VA loan limit of $458,000 have partnered with 5 of our preferred lenders and Lytle Title to pay all of the buyer’s closing costs and prepaid items, including a survey and owner’s title insurance.  What does that mean for VA eligible buyers?  That you can put just one dollar down as an earnest money deposit, and move in after closing with no more money out of pocket!

For example, you can buy a $300,000 home with 0 down will have a monthly house payment of $1333 (principal and interest only), for a 30 year loan with a fixed interest rate of 3.25% (APR 3.434%).  Hurry – rates may change!  In this example, the seller will pay $6,700 of costs on your behalf, enabling you to move in for a dollar.

Relocating to Fort Eustis or Langley AFB, VA?  We have a military team who is specially trained to serve your needs as a relocating military family.  Our VA $1 Move In program is just one of the many benefits available to our military clients who are in PCS mode to the Historic Triangle of Virginia.

How do you learn more about the program, see if you qualify, and check out which listings are participating in the campaign?  Just visit www.OneDollarVAMoveIn.com, click below, or call a Liz Moore office at 757.873.2707 (Peninsula) or 757.645.4106 (Williamsburg) for details!

The Military Team at Liz Moore and Associates, with help from other agents and clients, recently sent over 150 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to troops serving overseas.  This is something the team does every year to say "thank you" to the men and women that fight for our freedom.  

The Military Team received a letter of thanks, along with a photo, from Joint Task Force-Bravo, Soto Cano, Honduras.

"It's simple gestures like what you guys did that have an astronomical effect on service members that are deployed or away from friends and family for a while.  I can't relay the feeling you get when you get a box or piece of mail and get to escape from where you're at, if only for a minute.  Having been deployed four times, I still get butterflies when it's time to check the mail," one solider said in an excerpt from the letter.

Thank you to everyone who donated to this cause!

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The Military Team at Liz Moore and Associates, with help from other agents and clients, recently sent over 150 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to troops serving overseas.  In addition to Girl Scout cookies, the care packages were filled with personal hygiene items and Easter candy. 

“A box of thanks” is sent to the troops overseas twice a year by Liz Moore agents Vic and Diana Rondinelli, with help from the Liz Moore Military Team.  The military life engrained in their own lives, they are parents of a career Army Captain who served in Iraq and Kosovo, and Diana spent 20 years as an Army wife and Civil Service employee.  

In November, they will begin collecting Christmas cards to send to troops overseas so they have something to send back to their family and friends in the states.  Christmas cards are not something available to them while they are stationed overseas.

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Liz Moore and Associates, sponsored by the Liz Moore and Associates Military Team, is collecting Girl Scout Cookies to send to our military stationed overseas.  In addition to the cookies, they will be sending personal hygiene products and other fun items in the packages.

The Liz Moore Military Team has been sending Christmas Cards to the Troops in November, and Girl Scout Cookies in the Spring, every year since 2005 with the help of Liz Moore agents Vic and Diana Rondinelli.

You may drop off boxed cookies or other donations to one of our offices office prior to March 20th.  Your thoughtfulness will be a sweet memory and just another reminder of how much we appreciate their service!  Help us spread the word!  For more information, email pcs@lizmoore.com. 

Do your Spring plans include a Military Move to the Hampton Roads area?  Don’t let the process of relocating to Fort Eustis or Langley AFB be stressful – let the Liz Moore Military Team do the heavy lifting for you, so you can enjoy getting to know your new community!  Contact us at PCS@lizmoore.com or request a relocation package below. 

Every year the Liz Moore & Associates’ Military Team collects Christmas cards to send to troops overseas so they have something to send back to their family and friends in the states.  Christmas cards are not something available to them while they are stationed overseas.  In 2013, over 100 boxes of cards were sent to our troops, along with eight care packages, and the Military Team is working to send even more this year.

You can help by bringing boxes of new Christmas cards to one of our Liz Moore offices by November 7th.  For more information, email us at pcs@lizmoore.com or click below.  Help us spread the word and collect more cards than ever!

Active duty military, reservists, retirees, veterans, and their dependents will receive free Colonial Williamsburg admission during the Memorial Day weekend (May 23–26, 2014).  The Visitor Center will help orient you for your experience into the Revolutionary City and give you a glimpse into all that Colonial Williamsburg has to offer.

A Memorial Day Commemorative Program will take place on Monday, May 26th from 10-11am at various sites in the Revolutionary City.  This modern service will honor military veterans who died while serving their country. A procession with Fife and Drum support will proceed from the Palace to Bruton Parish Church and the French gravesite. Wreaths will be laid, prayers given, and volleys fired at each stop to honor soldiers of the American Revolution and Civil War interred nearby.  For more information, click here.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced that they have revised their loan limits for borrowers with no down payment and proper entitlement in certain areas across the nation.

In Hampton Roads cities, the VA loan limit increased from $417,000 to $458,850.

These limits apply to all loans closed February 28, 2014, through December 31, 2014. VA loan limits are based off of median home values estimated  by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

Why are VA loans attractive to borrowers?  VA loans are one of the few remaining loan products where the borrower can buy a home with no down payment.  VA interest rates are low, and qualifying is not as difficult as it can be for many other types of conventional financing.

Click here for a full list of VA loan limits.

Do your Spring plans include a Military Move to the Hampton Roads area?  Don’t let the process of relocating to Fort Eustis or Langley AFB be stressful – let the Liz Moore Military Team do the heavy lifting for you, so you can enjoy getting to know your new community!  Contact us at PCS@lizmoore.com or request a relocation package below. 

Liz Moore and Associates, sponsored by the Liz Moore and Associates Military Team, is collecting Girl Scout Cookies to send to our military stationed overseas.  In addition to the cookies, they will be sending personal hygiene products and other fun items in the packages.

The Liz Moore Military Team has been sending Christmas Cards to the Troops in November, and Girl Scout Cookies in the Spring, every year since 2005 with the help of Liz Moore agents Vic and Diana Rondinelli.

After sending cookies last year, a flag was unfurled and flown in combat over Afghanistan for Vic and Diana and the Military Team.  

You may drop off boxed cookies or other donations to one of our offices office prior to February 28th.  Your thoughtfulness will be a sweet memory and just another reminder of how much we appreciate their service!  Help us spread the word!  For more information, email pcs@lizmoore.com. 

Do your Spring plans include a Military Move to the Hampton Roads area?  Don’t let the process of relocating to Fort Eustis or Langley AFB be stressful – let the Liz Moore Military Team do the heavy lifting for you, so you can enjoy getting to know your new community!  Contact us at PCS@lizmoore.com or request a relocation package below.