Authors List
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David A. Roth is the president and broker of Access G T Mortgage Inc., which is a private-money lender and mortgage broker in Keizer, Oregon. He has been in the mortgage industry since 1994.
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Sam Royer is national director at Heroes First Home Loans, where he helps provide affordable mortgage financing for active and retired military members, police, firefighters, health care workers, educators and other civil servants. His experience in the U.S. Marine Corps and ability to forge relationships with frontline workers have allowed Royer to stake out a unique position in the industry while fueling his passion to give back to those who take care of us. Reach Royer at sam@heroesfirst.com.
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Steve Rudow is an FHA multifamily loan originator for AGM Financial Services Inc. Rudow joined the AGM team in 2001 as an FHA MAP underwriter. He is an instructor for the Mortgage Bankers Association’s HUD multifamily underwriting training program, teaching a course entitled, “Valuation Analysis & Investment Math.” He also served as an adjunct professor for the University of Maryland’s Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development, co-teaching the market-analysis and valuation courses.
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Nicole Rueth is a producing branch manager and senior vice president for the Rueth Team at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. in Englewood, Colorado. Rueth has been passionately advising clients on their wealth-building and home-financing strategies for nearly 20 years. Rueth has excelled at originating loans, due in part to an initial background on the operations side of mortgage financing, including warehouse management, lender relationships, post-closing and loan-product management. Reach Rueth at nrueth@fairwaymc.com.
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Nathan Rufty is a mortgage coach and trainer with Mortgage Marketing Pros, a company that works with loan officers to develop marketing plans that increase leads and closed loans. Mortgage Marketing Pros was created by a producing loan officer and a master marketer to teach mortgage professionals how to create their own businesses without relying so much on one or two streams that can dry up without warning.
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Jerry Sager is senior managing director of First National, a leading principal lender to the hospitality industry, mixed-use commercial properties, golf courses and special-asset owners. With more than 25 years of experience in lending to property owners and management companies, his team has provided financing for the acquisition, construction, expansion and refinancing of specialized assets throughout the U.S.
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Abby Shemesh, co-founder and chief acquisitions officer at Amerinote Xchange, brings over two and a half decades of profound experience in both the primary and secondary mortgage markets. Originally starting his career in mortgage loan origination, covering both residential and commercial loans, Shemesh transitioned to the secondary market and loan acquisitions in early 2006. His extensive expertise has led him to be featured in numerous industry publications such as Realtor.com, Investopedia and Yahoo Finance, among others.
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Olivia Sanders is an executive assistant with National Land Realty. Earlier this year, she began working with 1031 exchanges and has since become an integral part of her company’s 1031 team. Prior to embracing this exciting endeavor, Sanders earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration management with a minor in marketing from Winthrop University. She lives with her son in Greenville, South Carolina. She enjoys spending time outdoors, at the local gun range, and in the mountains with family and friends.
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Richard Sarkis is CEO and co-founder of Reonomy, a commercial real estate data and analytics platform. Since the company’s founding in 2013, Sarkis has been instrumental in raising $68 million in venture capital and led Reonomy through a successful web-platform launch in New York City, as well as the launch of a second nationwide platform in 2017. An avid entrepreneur, Sarkis has launched numerous companies, including an international arbitrage textbook company, a college marketing network and an offshore tech company.
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Jeff Saul is helping to lead Built Technologies’ strategy for delivering value to commercial mortgage lenders while continuing to grow the company’s construction and real estate finance technology. Bringing more than eight years of lending experience to the role, Saul spent time in investment banking and real estate private equity, most recently at Starwood Capital, before helping to launch lender software platform Nativ in 2018. Nativ was designed to simplify commercial real estate deal management and was acquired by Built earlier this year.
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Richard Sawicky is chief data officer for Attom Data Solutions. In his 13 years at the company, Sawicky has designed the foundational architecture of the Attom Data Warehouse, led all aspects of data development and production, and presently fosters strategic partnerships with Microsoft to engineer the next generation of data platforms for Attom’s customers. Prior to Attom, Sawicky spent more than 10 years developing enterprise data products for numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Weyerhaeuser and Fluor Corp. He also spent several years in the mortgage industry building loan-origination systems and performing custom platform integrations for mortgage-industry customers.
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