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Loan Officer / Realtor Relationship 101
Relationships are the key in just about any business, forming those relationships and making them rock solid is not only professionally rewarding but personally rewarding.  The relationships that I have formed with realtors for the ten years I have been doing this have been such a huge blessing to me and to my family. 
When I bought my first house it was a good friend of mine who I chose as a realtor he had just started in the business but also had a mentor who had been in the business for a long time coaching him through his first sale.  He did an excellent job and was very transparent to us and honest and John continues to be a friend today.  Interestingly enough he now is a loan originator. 
A year following buying my first house, I became an originator, and began forming business partnerships with realtors and at the same time forming friendships that I believe will last a lifetime.  Many of the realtors I work with I have known for the entire time I have been in the business, like me a few have changed employers over the last couple of decades but through it all we have congratulated, prayed, high fived and celebrated successes together.
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