I’d like to wish you and your family a very Happy [tag]Thanksgiving[/tag]!
I hope this day finds you happy, healthy, prosperous and momentarily reflective of all those things in life for which you are thankful.
If you own a [tag]home[/tag], I hope you are thankful for the moment when you accomplished that goal.
If you don’t yet own a home, but have the dream of doing so, I hope you are thankful that, in this great country of ours, that opportunity is always open to you, no matter the circumstances of the economy, the housing market, or the latest bad news broadcast on the radio.
I’m thankful for the opportunity these many years to help families realize the dream of [tag]homeownership[/tag]. When I got my first “Loan Officer” business card in 1989 (the week after Thanksgiving!), I thought, “Wow, I’m going to help people buy homes!”
Instead of considering myself a salesperson—which is really what I am, at the end of the day—I saw my role as that of information-provider, problem-solver, and ultimately, a helping hand for those with the desire to own a home.
I come from an immigrant family. We came here with nothing and made a life. We lived in apartment buildings in [tag]
That dream is something so many people hold close to their hearts. If the [tag]mortgage[/tag] meltdown demonstrates anything, it’s that the average American family wants to own a home, so much so, they’re willing to go to extraordinary lengths to do so. The fact that so many of these families were taken advantage of is symptomatic of the basic human failing of “greed” and not the broken mechanism of the home buying experience.
I’m thankful, too, that there have always been and remain to be so many avenues open to families to help them accomplish the goal of homeownership.
The [tag]American Dream[/tag] is alive and well, and, whether you now own, or will someday own, I’m personally and professionally thankful of the reality of that dream.
Again, Happy Thanksgiving!