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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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There's Still Money to be Made in this Market

As a Nationwide commercial lender we have not seen the dramatic drop-off in business as on the residential side of the market. I started my career in the residential market but made the move to the commercial side when I realized that this was an under-served and untapped market. Before the collapse of the residential market I desperately tried to convince many of my friends and colleagues to explore the commercial side of the real estate market and see the enormous sums of money to be made. Unfortunately, they had too many excuses like commercial is too difficult and too hard. Ironically, they also complain about how they’re not making any money because the residential market has gotten too hard and difficult. In this market you can either be on the cutting edge and step out of your comfort zone and try new things or you’ll be forced to go find work in another field. I love the real estate and mortgage business and could not think of another field that affords me the flexibility to make my own schedule and handsomely reward me for my hard work. I said all of that to say this: Stop walking by those commercial deals and thinking that there too hard; please remember that your first residential deal seemed like it was hard as hell too.