Ringing and Singing Challenge with
Rob Spinosa - Mortgage Industry
Thanks to Debbie Reynolds , this month, January 2015, members of AR have been Challenged to go RINGING and SINGING! In the description, Debbie asks that we "tell why you decided to call this person and something you learned ..."
To start with WHY - I remembered seeing Rob Spinosa, Marin Mortgage, in a peppy video once and thinking that it would be hard for me to replicate his seeming comfort. If you go and read Rob's 'Members Only' post from January 8th, he explains his strategy for developing new talents.
Now something I learned? Well, I learned that Rob Spinosa is a man who started out young in a loving family and decided, at the tender age of 17, to move from one side of the USA to the other. That's how he arrived in California.
Rob felt confident and never regretted his decision to forego college and pursue his IT interests. He followed a path in IT until he got an assignment that changed his life forever - well, so far anyway! With a person such as Rob, you never know when careers might change again!
Rob's assignment, he said, "... was to a 'Mom and Pop' company - and I mean that in every sense of the words!" The owners wanted to go online and a long period of work began.
The firm Rob was assisting brokered mortgages. Little by little, seeing that folks working at the Mom and Pop Mortgage business were making more money than he made caused him to reflect.
He realized that at the IT job he had, his future earnings were limited. All his life he had pursued excellence in everything e did. Now he decided that he could also focus on raising his earnings as well. His plans for the future began to take a different path.
Where Rob lived, one had to get a real estate license before he/she could work in the mortgage field. So off he went to learn the trade - and the rest is history.
You may go to his YouTube channel and enjoy his signature videos: THE MORTGAGE DICTIONARY: Home Financing presented in Black & White. In the series, Rob explains in a concise manner many Mortgage terms and answers questions. For example, Rob answers the question below:
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2:42 and defines the terms Escrow and Impound as they relate to Mortgages.
That's all about his work --- what did he have to say about AR? Rob said he would be hard pressed to explain ALL the benefits of AR. When he joined, he had no idea of the DEPTH of the community. He thought it would be 'a good thing to do' for business. Now he explains, AR brought him much, much more.
"I have developed friendships here is ActiveRain that are very important to me," he said.
"Active Rain has been the woodshed in which I've developed my voice," he said. I asked him what advice he would give someone who wanted to work in the Mortgage field. He answered: "The key to success in business is Relationships. A person needs a deep network and [some specific behavior traits.]
*** You need a strong desire to help others.
*** You need to be available when needed.
*** You need to be able to talk to all kinds of people.
"I guess I maintained my confidence time after time because of all the new things I taught to myself over the years. I was never content to just stand-by. I taught myself guitar, Italian, how to be a Mountaineer and to participate in a Triathalon."
Rob Spinosa offers a powerful package to his Clients. Rob is someone who demonstrates the very qualities he suggests for new Mortgage Originators. Contact him for your Mortgage Advice in Marin County, California.
Have a happy day -
Lynn
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