In the Wild Wild West of mortgage sales, the hills were full of mortgage gold
Picture this: you’re standing shoulder to shoulder in a room the length of a football field overflowing with howling, raucous young men. The leader of the pack is being hoisted upside down over a freshly primed and pumped keg full of beer. The whole throng erupts as he performs an honorary keg stand, suds gushing from his mouth, an appropriate salute to the members of this wild organization. You’re no doubt present for the induction ceremony at a local university frat house.

Not quite. In fact, you’re taking part in the awards ceremony at one of the largest wholesale mortgage brokerages on the US west coast. Welcome to Merit Financial in Kirkland, WA, a ritzy lakeside Seattle suburb, circa 2005. You’re standing in the heart of the mammoth mortgage company. Everyone just made a lot of money and you can’t help but feel a little giddy, too, like someone just filled the room with nitrous-oxide or your junior high crush passed your note back and you’ve unfolded the note to a blissful “yes.” …..
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