Veterans Real Estate Expert Interview Podcast
The VA Loan is a special loan but it has many benefits that Veterans and Sellers should consider. In this episode we cover those with Angela Allen.
Veterans Real Estate Expert Interview Podcast Links
https://www.benefits.va.gov/homeloans
https://va.gov
https://www.americanwarriorinitiative.com
Veterans Real Estate Expert Interview Podcast
Adam Small: Hello and welcome to the Real Estate Marketing Podcast. I’m Adam Small with Agent Sauce, and with me as always is Doug Karr.
Douglas Karr: Hello, sir.
Adam Small: How are you doing today, Doug?
Douglas Karr: Well.
Adam Small: Well.
Douglas Karr: Yeah.
Adam Small: Very good. That’s very proper of you today. Very proper of you. Also, in the studio, we have a special guest and her name is Angela Allen, and she is a real estate agent, a realtor and she’s actually going to talk to us today a little bit about the American Warrior Initiative and helping vets get VA loans and how that can work well for the vet as well as for the agents. Hello today, Angela.
Angela Allen: Hello.
Adam Small: How are you?
Angela Allen: I’m doing wonderful.
Adam Small: Great. Great. Let’s just kick this off. Tell us a little bit about yourself, a little bit about your history, how you got started with real estate and maybe even what kind of led you down the path toward veterans?
Angela Allen: I was in education prior to real estate, and when I realized that you’re basically deemed to poverty …
Adam Small: What? We don’t pay teachers enough?
Angela Allen: No. That’s another story.
Adam Small: No? No? Oh, okay. A touchy one. I didn’t mean to upset you.
Angela Allen: I decided that I can work with educating people and that’s my niche. I like to teach people and with real estate, there’s still an opportunity to teach people and it’s the best career move I’ve ever made. As more enthusiastic I am, the higher I am paid.
Adam Small: Well, that works out well. How long have you been doing it?
Angela Allen: I’ve been doing this … Going on a little over two years now.
Adam Small: Two years. Okay. Great. Still a fairly new agent. Two years is a good time to get some experience, so how did you get into working with veterans and have you been doing that pretty much from the start?
Angela Allen: I started that at the very beginning. I’m very passionate about veterans because of the story that I have about my dad. My dad passed away when I was six, and he was deemed 100% disabled and I had to watch my mom and him try to figure out how to navigate the VA system. They’re not very good at advertising how to do things. If you’ve ever logged on to the VA website, you need a PhD to be able to decipher how to navigate.
Adam Small: Right.
Angela Allen: Long story short, we ended up losing our house and having to move to an apartment because of not knowing how to do things. When I heard that veterans needed housing and t