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Sergeant Melissa Jimenez says VA loan enabled home purchase and helped fund second business
Summary
Sergeant Melissa Jimenez, a human resource specialist in the Colorado Army National Guard, testified that a VA loan allowed her to buy a home in 2020 with no down payment and freed funds that she used to open a second tattoo shop.
Sergeant Melissa Jimenez, a human resource specialist in the Colorado Army National Guard, told listeners that she joined the military at 23 and remained in service to secure benefits for her family. She said the VA loan "gave us the opportunity to be able to buy a house with nothing down," which she described as the key step that allowed her family to stabilize housing while they opened a second tattoo business.
Jimenez described a drawn-out home search in 2020, saying, "We had seen probably over 20 houses" and that offers were repeatedly outbid; she said the family first saw their eventual home only at the walkthrough. She also described weighing the cost of health insurance and retirement as she and her spouse built their businesses, and stated she stayed in the Guard "to try to get the most out of it."
