It will be on terminal leave when I get down there, I'm not going to buy a house until everything is nailed down with the transition. I have a couple of months of time building before we buy, would a pre-approval while on terminal leave be enough, or at that point would I have to show airline pay?

FWIW credit is great, will be downgrading vehicles to lose the car payment, only have wife's student loan that I'm debating about paying off with the bonus. She does a sort of sales business from home but I'm not banking on that just yet. It's just a nice to have.

Thanks for the replies.