Monthly Archives: December 2007

The end of referrals and trust

I find myself working so hard these days to gain people’s trust so that I can do their mortgage. I find the obvious sense of professionalism I bring to any encounter is lost on most people; they’re looking at me doubly-distrustfully.
I may be thick in the head but I didn’t realize until reading the [...]

I Don’t Know

Jimmy Buffett, in his song “Volcano” starts out singing, “Well, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know where I’m a gonna go when the volcano blows.”
I find myself remembering that lyric and repeating it over and over in my mind quite often lately.
I find myself saying those words, “I don’t know,” out loud [...]

Foreclosures and Everyone wants to be a STAR

I really don’t follow the statistics or the bad news in the newspapers. No, not at all.
But on average, we’re receiving at least one referral a day—that’s about 7 to 10 per week—of people in trouble. They’re one or two months down on their mortgage and they want to save their home. [...]