Back on 5/22/07, I received an e-mail from Carol Vinzant, a freelance writer who writes for AOL's Real Estate section.
Here is the e-mail that I received........
From: Carol Vinzant [mailto:cvinzant@pipeline.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:23 PM
To: jbelonger@nationalfuturemortgage.com
Subject: reporter query-fha downpayment assistance
Hi Jeff-
I’m a reporter working on a story for the AOL real estate section on the proposed changes to the downpayment assistance rules.
I saw your blog post on the subject. Would you mind if I ask you a few questions about it?
Carol Vinzant
207 East 5th Street, Apt. 8
New York, NY 10003
(212) 979-5327
I had just started my own blog page on May 18th on TypePad. But I had been writing about FHA and how it works since April. Which means that this had to be a result of Active Rain. Here is the first blog that I started on AR in April. Creative FHA financing -- No money out of pocket from the buyer!!! -- Part 1 So I called up Carol and she interviewed me for about 30 minutes. I then asked her when her article would be published and she said they don't tell her. So I had to basically search my name every day, hence how I found this out this evening, that it was published. But you want to know something funny? For about 15 minutes, we talked about FHA and the other 10 minutes about different types of financing. And before we hung up, she wanted to see if I could help her with another article, Condominiums vs Townhouses. I said no problem and I gave her some feedback. Well, that was the article that was published. Some of my quotes can be found half way down. And she writes a comment that I don't even remember saying. "even though there may be other single family homes pressed up against it". And sorry, but it doesn't even make sense. The rest of what she wrote, I did say. Well, just 2 other sentences.
Here is the article : Articles, Advice, Tools and Real Estate Resources The one thing that I don't get is that the date at the bottom of the article is from last year. 2006-05-12 12:19:57 I don't get it, considering that this just took place 3 weeks ago. And the page itself doesn't even have todays date on it. But am I complaining? No, just confused. I am truly happy and excited that my name got mentioned because AOL has a large audience nationwide. Again, I am not complaining.
Overall..... I got recognized thanks to Active Rain. And I still might have another article to look forward to in AOL's Real Estate section in regards to FHA and my thoughts and opinions. Keep blogging and be passionate in what you do and write about.
Again, thank you Active Rain, to everyone that has supported me, and for all of your comments.
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