Bruce Bourgalt is an Active Rain Member, Vice President, MPro (Mortgage Professional) of Central Pacific Bank, Oahu, Hawaii. He drops by our office, Century 21 Liberty Homes in Mililani, Hawaii quite often just to say hello and he will also give us some info on programs and especially VA loans as the majority of our client's are military stationed at Schofield Barracks and Wheeler Army Air Field. (We also have many client's from Hickam, Pearl Harbor, and Kaneohe as they love Mililani which is centrally located on the island).
Bruce stated, "The organization I have joined is the National Association of Mortgage Professionals "M". This association does a comprehensive background check on all of us. The complete background check includes a police record check, an Individual State Licensing check, Individual Continuing Education Requirements check, and an Individual Standards of Conduct Check" and the rest of his article can be read here: I am so Proud
We didn't see Bruce for awhile last year and we found out he had cancer. I've never seen a more brave man in my life struggling to continue with his career while battling cancer. He is going in the hospital on September 5, 2007 (date moved up to the fifth) to have surgery once more. This time he is more confident that this will work. Good Luck Bruce! We'll be having that hot dog together shortly!
Bruce recently wrote an article If you cheat, you cheat yourself and it started bringing up all sorts of "feelings" for me. It is disheartening to know people who cheat, lie or try to deceive the public and the members of Active Rain. Plagiarism is rampant on Active Rain (and we all know how hard it is to monitor over 45,000 members so help out and flag the ones you KNOW are copy/paste articles) There are also members who "lie by omission". That is, telling a little and leaving out a lot. It's still lying no matter how anyone tries to justify it.
Bottom line, Bruce and many of us here on Active Rain work very hard to produce honest, trustworthy, and valid information about ourselves, our community and our industry as we know it. Personally, I spend MANY hours (I don't have little children so you can conclude that that time is mine) and Bruce has become another "blogger gone wild". WooHoo! We will find all types here on Active Rain of all personalities.
I think I'll just give my attention to the good people, like Bruce. (He's now on my list of trustworthy Mortgage Professionals) and...........I'm not eating any Hot Dogs until we have that lunch!
** I recently found Bruce's wife Linda's blog. She will be giving us updates on Bruce during the next two weeks and here's her latest: He Isn't A Rapist and I'm Not An Axe Murderess... (when two strangers meet...) and her story about Bruce and their fight with his cancer in "Rising to the challenge"...when the sky is falling!
Celeste "Sally" Cheeseman's Mililani Hawaii Real Estate Blog 2007©
Century 21 Liberty Homes, Mililani, Hawaii and Office of the Military Relocation Specialists for over 32 years!
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Great shout out to Bruce Sis. What I've saw him post has been very good. He seems like a Fantastic Mortgage Professional we all can learn from.