For those of you who have recently retired from the military and are on 1st year pay, what have banks been preapproving for loan amounts? I don't want to run a hard credit score yet since I probably won't close in 120 days and running the credit lowers the credit (so stupid). Anyway, I want to live in SEA but holy shnikeys who the heck can get a big enough loan to actually move up there? I'm thinking I'll need to spend $700k or so to get the same home I could get for $500k in ATL (which btw coincides with what I spent $370k on in San Antonio...)