Blog of the Mortgage

I was watching another episode of Extreme Make-Over "Home Edition" last night recovering from my weekend of snowboarding Kirkwood (the first two days are always the most muscle cramping). The poor girl they were taking care of had to live in sub 62 degree conditions at all times. Well, as with all "Home Edition" episodes there was something "Extreme": they had installed an Ice Cream parlor in the basement, next to the 80 inch Plasma screen movie theatre and bowling alley/lane etc. etc. etc.

Sometimes I wish I had problems like some of the folks have on these shows, I mean just for second, but then I change my mind. There's no amount of free stuff that would replace all of the pain and hurt that all of the people on this show go through.

Well, the topic is Ice Cream, and the girl got her own Ice Cream parlor (full of 10 different flavors).

Imagine now, we're at the Ol' 31 Flavors (Our mortgage market place) and we're looking for our Favorite flavor (Mint Chip? Rocky Road -that's an ironic one eh? Perhaps Neopolitan?) and all they have is Frickin' Vanilla!

Well, here we are (IMO) at the 31 Flavors with only Vanilla Ice Cream to choose from. It's like this: would you like Vanilla, French Vanilla, I've seen some stuff from Africa before, Hand Churned, Slow Churned, Low-fat, Gelato? We all (us lenders, you brokers) pretty much have Vanilla Ice Cream for Sale...No more 31 flavors, shoot: not even 10 flavors really.

You know, come to think of it, I would kill to have 10 different flavors of Ice Cream right now.

So now you're wondering what I'm gonna do about this problem? Well, much of the heavy lifting is being done by my competition (us lenders). They're closing up shop and removing product faster than you can say Foreclosure or Bankruptcy or something snappy like that. Also, and I don't get this, there are reps out there working for the remaining players that are apparently not returning phone calls or e-mails, or sending relevant marketing pieces or taking the time out of their day to make sure their clients/customers/brokers/partners are updated as to what is happening (you see where I am going with this?). Like I said, many are doing the heavy lifting for me. Thank you to the "many".

Me, I pretty much remember the first time I even got to have an Ice Cream cone. I just can't remember the flavor (pretty sure it was vanilla though). Man, that was like THE BEST THING EVER! So it is, still the best thing ever.

See my post for Success in 2008 on helping over come some of the Vanilla issues and. . .

We have some of the Best Vanilla Ice Cream in the busniess if you're checking!  Full of Organic Vanilla Bean, Organic Milk from Cows in Wisconsin, slowly churned by our own special artisans and hand-packed in individually re-useable containers made of 100% recycled milk bottles...It's the Best!

Only $7/pint (1 loan/month). Available on your local ratesheet (www.your-ae.com/rates).  Good Ice Cream comes with a price (1 loan/month). Yours should too.