• PCS to San Diego: Choosing a Neighborhood by Your Base,Shirin Kheshti

    PCS to San Diego: Choosing a Neighborhood by Your Base

    The call almost always comes in the same shape. Someone has orders, they have a report date, they have already spent two nights scrolling listings on a phone from a different time zone, and the first thing they say to me is some version of "we found a house we like, what do you think." My first ques

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  • What BAH San Diego Actually Covers in 2026,Shirin Kheshti

    What BAH San Diego Actually Covers in 2026

    The question comes in almost the same way every January and every summer PCS season: I have orders to San Diego, I looked up my BAH online, and I do not know if the number I found is actually mine. It is a fair thing to not know, because most of what shows up in a search is either last year's number

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  • VA Loan Limits in San Diego: What Actually Applies in 2026,Shirin Kheshti

    VA Loan Limits in San Diego: What Actually Applies in 2026

    The question reaches me by text more often than by phone, and it almost always arrives in the same shape: my VA loan caps out at the county limit, so how much house does that actually buy down there. It is a fair question and it is built on a rule that stopped applying to most borrowers on January 1

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