Our home search in Central Texas began in February of 2020. My family was stateside, and I was deployed to Europe and was set to return in July of 2020. My wife Jennifer and I were searching for our final home and it was not easy. Homes were selling quickly before COVID struck and we were denied multiple times by different lenders. We had given up and were just going to settle on a rental property or on base housing. We were being told we did not qualify for multiple reasons. My wife tells me I am very stubborn, and I was not going to give up easily. I kept trying but was constantly being denied, we were defeated. It was late May of 2020 and one day while I was casually scrolling through a veteran’s page on Facebook, I read a post of a veteran trying to buy a home, but he was running into problems. I noticed a gentleman by the name of John VanNoller responded to him with some sound and caring advice. I read Johns response and thought, maybe John can help us too. I private messaged John and he responded. He immediately reached out and did not hesitate to review my file and said he could not see why I was being denied. We communicated back and forth and provided John with everything he requested. He got us pre-approved, remained in communication with us and the rest is history. John worked extremely hard to get us approved and my family and I are forever indebted to John for getting us into our home. He is very experienced, and it showed. Thank you John for making this happen after we were defeated…..you were our final straw!