Sam Thompson

Sam Thompson

Carolina Mortgage Company

843-230-7929

Senior Mortgage Advisor

Carolina Mortgage Company - 843-230-7929

Senior Advisor - Helping you GROW your business!

www.activerain.com./luckydog1 - SC

www.activerain.com/luckydog2 - NC

www.samthompsonmortgage.com/

www.carolina-mortgage.com/

Checkout: http://www.activelaurinburg.com/ Active Adult Community Laurinburg, NC

Timely Tip! First-Time Buyer Prospecting... Are you tired of prospects with little motivation and bad credit? Why not try some new innovative prospecting ideas to find some better quality buyers this year? Here's a quick tip I thought of to help you meet some apartment dwellers that are more likely thinking about buying a home in this market and that do not have a house to sell first!

Talk to someone that lives in a nice apartment complex about allowing you to host a "meet the neighbors social" in their apartment. Explain that it will be a great way for the neighbors to get to know each other in a social setting and you can provide the refreshments.

Don't know anybody living in an apartment? Read my email next week on some ideas on how to find them!

Then, use the opportunity meet new people and to explain about the low mortgage rates, the mortgage interest tax deduction, the great home values and the tax credit still available for 1st-time homebuyers until next July! You will meet several potential clients and they will be promoting you to their friends too! Also, there is a very good chance that they are unaware of these strong incentives. Besides the business benefits, you are going to make a bunch of new friends as well...

Many will have great credit and need a great Realtor like you!

Senior Mortgage Advisor

Carolina Mortgage Company - 843-230-7929

Senior Advisor - Helping you GROW your business!

www.activerain.com./luckydog1 - SC

www.activerain.com/luckydog2 - NC

www.samthompsonmortgage.com/

www.carolina-mortgage.com/

Checkout: http://www.activelaurinburg.com/ Active Adult Community Laurinburg, NC

About Our Mortgage Co. Carolina Mortgage Company is a well-established mortgage company since 1986 that has relationships with just about everybody in the industry in and around the Fayetteville, NC area. After funding in our name, all loans are sold to lenders that we represent that also have long standing relationships with Carolina Mortgage Company. Carolina Mortgage Company is a leader in mortgages and specializes in VA and FHA processing. Our process:

1. Call me with your prospects or ask them to call me and I will start off by promoting you to them.
2. I will call them and take their application over the phone or I will meet them either in my office or in yours. If I cannot get them pre-approved, I will counsel them on what they need to do or advise them on other ways to get financing.
3. If pre-approved, I will immediately send you a commitment letter. If not pre-approved, I will let you know that as well.
4. For the pre-approved, then I will print off the application and meet them the following day and will collect verification documents.
5. The following day, Audrey will start processing their loan and ordering the appraisal and title work.
6. In a few days, not weeks, we will be done and ready for closing.
7. On the day of closing, we will wire the money from our line of credit to cover the mortgage so your checks are ready at closing.

Carolina Mortgage Company
6920 Cliffdale Road Fayetteville, North Carolina 28314

Office: 910-868-4300 Toll Free: 800-868-4689 Fax: 910-868-3324

Senior Mortgage Advisor

Carolina Mortgage Company - 843-230-7929

Senior Advisor - Helping you GROW your business!

www.activerain.com./luckydog1 - SC

www.activerain.com/luckydog2 - NC

www.samthompsonmortgage.com/

www.carolina-mortgage.com/

Checkout: http://www.activelaurinburg.com/ Active Adult Community Laurinburg, NC

What about our next 100 days in our office? Our Smart Goals

With every new President, the media and country are always watching and judging on their accomplishments in their 1st 100 days in office. And this year, we are all very hopeful that this new President can do a lot to help all of us. Just like our new President, we need to have some clear goals and expectations for ourselves for our next 100 days in our office and then our next and next, etc.

A great way to do this is to set some SMART goals and then get going on this and then do every thing you can to hit your smart goal targets! A smart goal is as follows:

• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Realistic
• Timely

Here's a great SMART goal! Send ALL Buyers to Sam so he can get them pre-approved with Carolina Mortgage and closed fast and easy so I can focus on other things! Now that is a REAL SMART GOAL!

Senior Mortgage Advisor

Carolina Mortgage Company - 843-230-7929

Senior Advisor - Helping you GROW your business!

www.activerain.com./luckydog1 - SC

www.activerain.com/luckydog2 - NC

www.samthompsonmortgage.com/

www.carolina-mortgage.com/

Checkout: http://www.activelaurinburg.com/ Active Adult Community Laurinburg, NC

Quick Tip for 2009 Let's Help Each Other Since many service providers and retailers are looking for business and for ways to cut costs, why not spend more time working with them as a team? Here are some ways to do this:

1. Share office space by finding a service provider in a great location that has some space available to share.
2. Share some expenses that affect both businesses in the same location.
3. Share office personnel for answering the phone or in paying or collecting the bills.
4. Promote each other in each other's travels.
5. Advertise jointly in some print ads or other media.
6. Help each other by providing some work or service for each other.
7. Set up a new networking group with them to bring in others into your new network.

Networking is a great way to build your business and now is a great time to do this to help others too! Since you have many skills that many don't have, you can offer many skills to help others with their business. Share your knowledge and watch the referrals start coming in. While you are at it, don't forget me! I am a service provider too. Call me if you have some ideas that we can help each other with in 2009!

Senior Mortgage Advisor

Carolina Mortgage Company - 843-230-7929

Senior Advisor - Helping you GROW your business!

www.activerain.com./luckydog1 - SC

www.activerain.com/luckydog2 - NC

www.samthompsonmortgage.com/

www.carolina-mortgage.com/

Checkout: http://www.activelaurinburg.com/ Active Adult Community Laurinburg, NC