Staying Alive--and SANE!
I fondly recall the image of John Travolta combing his hair while walking down the street to the Bee Gees 'Staying Alive' in Saturday Night Fever . That movie was really about a street smart guy using everything at his disposal including very fancy footwork to win against the odds. To identify with such a caricature is what it feels like to be a mortgage broker today. We are the creative, the resourceful, the get it done folks you know will find a way if anybody can. However you may be affected by the horrible news going down in the financial world--I would like to stand in support of some very committed mortgage professionals I call my colleagues. While it is sad for us to watch our lenders (some very decent folks) one by one close their collective doors...it is obvious from where we sit that the biggest of our esteemed banks have been doing (to quote today's newscaster) "really stupid things!" It is very hard to imagine what was going through the minds of...