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AD: You
have held
predominately
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leadership roles for many
years, but let’s go back a bit in
your career life. First allow me to personally
thank you for positioning yourself to serve and protect
our country in the U. S. Army as a Paratrooper in the
82nd Airborne Infantry Division. Can you give a little
insight as to what that was like?
out of airplanes with full
gear, a ruck sack, and machine gun.
I credit much of my success today to the
discipline instilled in me during my military term.
AD: As an owner of a Real Estate and Loans compa-
ny between 2008 and 2011 at which time the housing
market was hit hard, your company’s emphasis was on
GS: It was both a great honor and tremendous privi- not only helping your clients become homeowners, but
lege for me to serve with the illustrious 82nd Airborne also helping to guide them in avoiding foreclosure and
Division. I joined at a very young age; so young that remain property owners. What was your motivation to
my parents had to sign to emancipate me legally. I focus on this niche market?
graduated high school when I was only seventeen—so
when all my friends were deciding who they should
ask to their junior prom, I was 3,000 miles away from
home
GS: At that time I noticed a lot of unethical mortgage
companies aggressively pushing negative amortization
loans on unwary homeowners. These “bad loans”