04 Oct Meritage gives home to Veteran

Meritage Homes gives free home to Iraq War veteran

Sep 23, 2016, 11:37am MST

Mike Sunnucks
Senior Reporter
Phoenix Business Journal

Joseph and Mollie Moncreif and their two daughters Elizabeth and Jocelyn are moving into a new home in November.
It has three bedrooms, two bathrooms — and no mortgage.

Scottsdale-based Meritage Homes Corp. (NYSE: MTH) has given a 2,300-square-foot home to to Joseph Moncreif, a U.S. Army veteran, for free.

Meritage and Operation Homefront, a San Antonio-based nonprofit that helps U.S. military veterans, have given the home to the former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant and his family.

The Moncreifs get the keys on Veterans Day in November.

He was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and 2005, Kuwait in 2000 and Kosovo in 1997.

Moncreif was honorably discharged in 2010. The Moncreifs currently live at Luke Air Force Base.

“I was floored about what Meritage Homes provides for veterans and military families. It’s a dream that we have been wanting for a long time,” said Moncrief. “We no longer have to move constantly or worry about where we are going next.”

Operation Homefront and Meritage another mortgage free home for another veteran and their family in Austin, Texas.

“Thanks to the continuing generosity of Meritage Homes, we are privileged to award two additional new homes to deserving military families as part of our Homes on the Homefront program.,” said Robert Thomas, chief operating officer at Operation Homefront.

The Texas charity has worked with home builders and lenders to more than 550 military veterans.

Meritage has been part of the program for four years.

“Our continued partnership with Operation Homefront allows us to bring the American dream of home ownership to additional military families this year,” said Meritage Division President Fred Hermann.