Kentucky VA Home Loans for 2021

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No down payment in most cases for purchase loans (up-front money toward your home purchase), and easier borrower credit requirements.
No monthly mortgage insurance premiums or private mortgage insurance (PMI).
Lower homebuyer closing costs, and limits to what borrowers can be charged.
The opportunity to roll your “VA funding fee” into your mortgage.
The ability to refinance a non-VA loan into the VA mortgage program.
The opportunity to: ask a home seller to contribute up to 4 percent of the mortgage amount to cover some of the closing costs; ask your lender to cover some of the closing costs; seek closing cost assistance through state homebuying programs created for veterans and first-time buyers.
The right to become a VA borrower for life. In most cases you can use VA mortgage programs forever, and sometimes you can have more than one VA loan.
Eligibility of financing for spouses of service-members who died in the line of duty or from a service-related disability.
You can review all types of Kentucky VA Home Loans here, including purchase mortgages, refinance mortgages (called Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loans or IRRRLs), and cash-out refinance loans.

To qualify for a Kentucky VA Home Loan, usually a military veteran or service-member must have 90 consecutive days of active service during wartime, or 181 straight days of service during peacetime, or six years in the national guard or reserves of a particular military branch. You can find out if you’re eligible here.

Kentucky VA mortgage comes with an additional closing cost called a “VA funding fee” of between 1.4 to 3.6 percent on the amount borrowed (depending on your circumstance). This special fee that non-VA borrowers never have to pay helps partially fund the “government backed” part of the VA borrower program, and many VA borrowers can roll it into their mortgage.