{"id":3335,"date":"2008-07-09T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2008-07-09T21:11:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T04:11:30","slug":"an-introduction-from-the-banking-pup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3335\/an-introduction-from-the-banking-pup\/","title":{"rendered":"An introduction from the banking “Pup”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

First I want to thank all of you for making me feel so welcomed as one of the newest members of the Bloodhounds.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve felt very welcomed and I appreciate that.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve also learned a lot.<\/p>\n

As Greg said when we kicked off Project Bloodhound, he’d let all of the pups take the opportunity to properly introduce themselves.\u00a0 I’m going to attempt to do that.<\/p>\n

First the basics: My name is Tom Vanderwell, I’ve been married to my high school sweetheart and best friend for 23 years (well it will be 23 years in 11 days).\u00a0\u00a0 We have 5 children.\u00a0 The oldest (21) is living and working in Ohio as a call center rep.\u00a0\u00a0 My 18 year old will be attending Calvin College in the fall to pursue a nursing career.\u00a0 She plans on going into third world nursing, specifically at this point in Haiti.\u00a0 Our 16 year old will be a junior in high school.\u00a0\u00a0 Four years ago we adopted two more kids from Haiti (www.glahaiti.org)<\/a>.\u00a0 They are currently 6 and 7 (the 7 year is the only boy besides for me in the whole family!)\u00a0\u00a0 Let’s just say life is never boring at our house!<\/p>\n

One of the questions that I enjoy asking others in the real estate world is “How did you get into the real estate business?”\u00a0\u00a0 So here’s my story.\u00a0 In 1988, I was running the showroom of a local furniture rental store (not a rent to own, but a temporary leasing store) and got let go because I refused to lie to the customers (go figure?).\u00a0\u00a0 One of my customers was a Realtor and she made a comment to me, “You should think about selling real estate.”\u00a0\u00a0 Well, after a couple of months looking for a job, I decided to pursue the idea.\u00a0\u00a0 I ended up selling real estate for 3 1\/2 years.\u00a0 I don’t know how many of you were around during the first Persian Gulf War, but I didn’t sell a house for 6 months during that.\u00a0\u00a0 Needless to say, it was time to look for something else.<\/p>\n

In 1991, I made the switch to mortgage lending Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, First I want to thank all of you for making me feel so welcomed as one of the newest members of the Bloodhounds.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve felt very welcomed and I appreciate that.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve also learned a lot. As Greg said when we kicked off Project Bloodhound, he’d let all of the pups take the opportunity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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":[4,2,175,5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-general","8":"category-project-blooodhound","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-zillowcom","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3314,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3314\/project-bloodhound-a-question-from-one-of-the-pups\/","url_meta":{"origin":3335,"position":0},"title":"Project Bloodhound – a question from one of the pups….","author":"Tom Vanderwell","date":"July 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, I need some collective wisdom.\u00a0\u00a0 Here's my dilemma, I've been operating on blogger for quite some time and I thought it was doing me well, but I've learned I can do better.\u00a0\u00a0 So, I've got things set up at www.straighttalkaboutmortgages.com with wordpress.com and it's 90% of the way I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3386,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3386\/project-bloodhound-great-debaters-making-the-most-of-comments-with-conversations-and-controversy\/","url_meta":{"origin":3335,"position":1},"title":"Project Bloodhound: Great debaters: Making the most of comments with conversations, and controversy","author":"Teri Lussier","date":"July 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeff Brown talked about this at Bloodhound Unchained: A thoughtful comment is an art and one you should practice; it can show the world who you are, what you think, what you have to offer. 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