Catherine 's Blog

I'm inspired and overwhelmed by the generosity of the people in my life.....I'm MORE THAN THANKFUL! As I wrote in my last blog, I was in an accident on November 1st, since then the recovery has been an up hill battle. I have had a couple of surgeries and the healing isn't going as planned but the...

I'm a lender that works in Northern Colorado, I have two close clients (separate) looking to purchase homes in Colorado Springs. I'm trying to find a Real Estate Agent that currently has and utilizes the Home Buyer Scouting Report. I currently use it up here but I do not have access to the Colora...

It's been a while since I have blogged (yes I'm having withdraws) because of my accident. When I first thought about writing this blog, I thought I was crazy to relate my motorcycle accident to my business. As I lay here with a bruised and battered body, I have been replaying the motions in my he...

I hope that you won't freeze this winter but there are children and adults who will go without coats this year in Northern Colorado. National City Mortgage has kicked off their annual coat drive and I just had to let my friends at Active Rain know. (I blog about everything else) Although I know m...

I realized something was missing in my business..... A really good Hook Line to my marketing pieces, email signature and blog posts. I'm a bit embarrassed that it took me this long to think of it and now I wish I had one. So I have been thinking and thinking of different hook lines, with nothing ...

After trying to explain this great website to another real estate professional, her comments was "I just don't have time!" You mean you don't have time for a quick morning pick me up and read so many positive blogs? You don't have time to find out if that marketing idea you have will really work,...

FINNALY...if you Google Loan Officer in Fort Collins I'm first to come up! How do I maximize this for leads and referral's? I was trying to think of what to do next so I don't miss this opportunity. I have heard so many of you mention that you get leads.....please share your wealth of knowledge w...

After spending a beautiful Sunday morning flooded in pink for the "Race for a Cure" in Denver, I realized that we still have a long way to go baby! I saw a great piece on the Today show about a lady by the name of Dr. Susan Love who has pushed the reasearch of Breast Cancer in unknown territories...

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power! The funny thing about negative emotions is that people actually worship them, and then they become negative themselves. The people surrounding them also become negative and then what the Media has set out to do they have accomplished. I ha...

It use to be that at closing you signed a 4506T for the lender to you in case of an audit to make sure that they income taxes you presented are the same taxes that you gave the IRS. Unfortunately, back in the day (1-6 years ago) this document was rarely exercised. Well now that is not the case......