“The first few years, my children were still young and under 16, so I did not do it full time,” she said. “I would do a loan for family members, but not go out marketing myself as fully doing the job. It took me probably two or three years.”
Broumand noted she didn’t get into the career driven by a profit motive, although it didn’t go unnoticed how well her cousins were doing. Instead, she described a “servant’s heart” that has guided her second career where she is able to help folks achieve the dream of homeownership.
“That’s certainly not my driver,” she said. “To be totally honest with you, I don’t love money. I started making a network around myself of brokers that are true servant hearts. That’s who I am as a person. I choose to serve in whatever it is that I’m doing, whether it’s developing urinary products or originating a mortgage, or giving advice.”
She especially has a soft spot in her heart for military veterans, and is active in Vetted VA, a group that provides guidance to vets seeking to become homeowners.
“My dad was a veteran himself, and he died young from Agent Orange,” she said, referring to the herbicide mixture used by the US military during the Vietnam War. “He never ended up owning a house,” she said of her father, who was divorced from her mother yet retained full entitlement benefits. “My dad wasted years being a renter, and it was needless. He didn’t have to do that. That’s why I’m a part of Vetted VA.”
Source: mpamag.com