I'm closing on a house at the end of February. For my USDA-RD loan all the lender wanted was the typical two years of tax returns and W-2s, two months of bank statements, and one month of pay stubs. I'm sure VA isn't going to want much more than that, since they're both federally backed.
My wife and I went through a whirlwind of a couple weeks. We originally planned on selling our house and moving this coming fall. She spotted pretty much her ideal house on Zillow, so the process got jumpstarted in a hurry. We made a contingent offer on said house on January 4th and it was countered for less than 1% more, so we accepted that one. Then came selling our house before we ran out of time to close on the new house. I figured ours wouldn't move since it's the dead of winter, and we're in the middle of nowhere essentially(Ohio/Indiana area with nothing but farmland in every direction). We got ours listed on the 6th. We were offered full price on the 9th. We accepted that for obvious reasons. Now we're just waiting on inspections and such.
I got lucky with our house that I'm selling. I bought it as a foreclosure for 90k in 2013. If everything goes through, we'll have sold it for 130k. Our current house is a 40 year old one story ranch with barely over 1500 square feet. The new house is over 3k square feet, and 20 years newer, for 208k and fully updated. I can't wait. Gotta love non-coastal or major city pricing.
