“We watched 9/11 and what that did to the industry,” she recalled. “That was something to live through. The Great Recession was no picnic either: “Complete annihilation of the market,” she recalled.
Thank goodness for the business sense from her then-husband. The couple had a house in California listed on the market for $2.1 million, she recalled. “These people were hardcore negotiators, wanted the house and had $500,000 in earnest money,” she said. “They wanted to close, and Vic could see the writing on the wall. They bought the house for $2.1 million, and that was in 2007 when things started to turn.”
The two had decided to return to Georgia at the time. “You remember the Implode-O-Meter?” she asked, referring to a rudimentary website that had been created to track the number of corporate implosions of independent mortgage lending companies. “It took us a week to drive to Georgia, and as we did every major mortgage company was falling.”
By 2011, the couple was divorced. But the story has an implausibly happy ending. The two still work together – albeit in separate locations, she in Arizona and he in Washington. “Sometimes it takes a few years to cool off, you know?” she said of the split. Three years after the divorce, the two work for the same company. “We’re both happily remarried and still the best of friends and are great business partners,” she said.
It’s a family affair
The entire office is extended family, she added. “We’ve all known each other for years,” she said. “A lot of them are United Lending Group people. We’re all like family, and we all take care of each other.”
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