{"id":1225,"date":"2007-03-27T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T16:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2007-03-27T18:22:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T01:22:01","slug":"rocking-the-boat-for-fun-and-profit-introducing-morgan-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1225\/rocking-the-boat-for-fun-and-profit-introducing-morgan-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocking the boat for fun and profit: Introducing Morgan Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re adding another contributor this morning: Morgan Brown, a lender from Orange County:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/22.jpg\" align=\"left\"\/>Morgan Brown is a mortgage banker and broker in Irvine, CA. He enjoys reading and blogging, and he is on a personal mission to change the public perception of the mortgage industry through honesty &#8212; even if it kills him.<\/p>\n<p>If you visit <a href=\"http:\/\/blownmortgage.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan&#8217;s personal weblog<\/a>, you&#8217;ll see that he is a man in deep earnest about reform in the mortgage lending industry. I&#8217;m a believer, and yet I know from first-hand experience that bearding the lions of the old guard is very effective as a marketing strategy. Plus which, it&#8217;s fun.<\/p>\n<p>Realtors are not immune from the charge of being Pollyannas, so for quite some time I&#8217;ve been interested in entertaining a voice from The Dark Side, as it were. I&#8217;m not accusing Morgan of being dour &#8212; very much the countrary &#8212; but he will certainly bring us a take on the news you won&#8217;t hear from our other contributors.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re adding another contributor this morning: Morgan Brown, a lender from Orange County: Morgan Brown is a mortgage banker and broker in Irvine, CA. He enjoys reading and blogging, and he is on a personal mission to change the public perception of the mortgage industry through honesty &#8212; even if it kills him. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2073,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2073\/the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1225,"position":0},"title":"The Odysseus Medal competition &#8212; Voting for the People&#8217;s Choice Award is open","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A dozen nominees again. It's a workable number, and it gets us down to nothing but very serious posts. There are three from BloodhoundBlog here, but there's nothing for it. Two of the three dominated the debate this week. If anything, I'm less fair to our contributors in the final\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog Carnivals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog Carnivals","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blog-carnivals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1504,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1504\/podcast-interview-with-fellow-bloodhound-blog-contributor-dan-green\/","url_meta":{"origin":1225,"position":1},"title":"Podcast interview with fellow Bloodhound Blog contributor Dan Green","author":"Morgan Brown","date":"June 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"At my home blog, Blown Mortgage, I have the privilege of interviewing some of the best and brightest in the real estate and mortgage world. 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Ahem: Please don't spam all your friends to come and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog Carnivals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog Carnivals","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blog-carnivals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2175,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2175\/psa-watch-the-debate-on-hr-3915-live\/","url_meta":{"origin":1225,"position":4},"title":"PSA: Watch the Debate on H.R. 3915 Live","author":"Morgan Brown","date":"November 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The debate is underway in the Financial Services Committee on The Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007 you can watch it live here. (Clicking this link will launch your video viewer). I'm interested in seeing how poorly the politicians understand the concepts they are debating. 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