- Name
- Jeff Corbett
- Company
- ActiveRain
- E-mail
- Contact Jeff Corbett (ActiveRain)
- Website
- http://activerain.com/thexbroker
- Office Phone
- (949) 273-2232
- Address
- Seattle, WA, 98101
- Description
- Real Estate and Mortgage Idealist. Technology Architecture Aficionado. Borg to Human Shaman.
Where'd I Come From?
About The XBroker
Radical Transparency
Inspired by Redfin.com’s ‘Wall of Shame’ blog category, Jeff started TheXBroker.com in August of 2006 as a vehicle to express his industry knowledge and provocative opinion. Never one to shy away from a good debate and in constant need to have the last word, he’s been an active adversary of traditional real estate and mortgage business since running his own brokerages.
Born in 1971 in Buffalo New York, Jeff was a 7thgrade school system ‘computer experiment’, learning and teaching computer science to college professors at the University at at the age of twelve.
Formally educated in the biological sciences at Syracuse University and Barton College, once Jeff discovered how little entry level research science paid, he started his post collegiate career working for Branch Banking and Trust in The Triad area of North Carolina. From the inside, he learned about the worlds of finance and real estate and began to personally purchase property at the courthouse steps in hopes of raking in the riches.
Dealing with independent real estate, mortgage and contractor professionals in order to turn his real estate portfolio required far too much money and time. As a result, in 1999-2000 Jeff decided to start his own companies within these respective industries.
With a scientific mindset, Jeff's goal was to streamline the expensive and inefficient process of property acquisition and sale. Seven years later he left traditional real estate and mortgage business practices in January 2006 to learn everyone his philosophy: Radical transparency for the real estate and mortgage industries.
Education instead of selling, demanding greater information accessability, awareness and exchange weren't very 'popular' ideas in real estate and mortgage circa 2006. Today they are staples for a sustainable business.
Jeff currently works for the largest real estate social network, ActiveRain.com, as their VP of Business Development. He resides in Charlotte, NC and still suffers from constant entrepreneurial seizures.
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