“I was home because I had to pick up my brother at the airport,” he told Mortgage Professional America during a telephone interview. “That’s the only reason I stayed out of the city that day.”
Fleeing New York City after the attacks
Understandably, Fisher needed a break after that experience. He ended up at Mammoth Lakes, Calif., an area renowned for its mountains and ski areas. It is here where he would have a chance meeting with a stranger that would change his life.
“He said he didn’t figure me for a ski bum,” Fisher said. He remembered the man asking him if he’d be interested in trying something different. “And I took him up on it,” Fisher said. “I had no idea about mortgage.”
The man dealt in subprime mortgages, Fisher recalled. Despite his initial lack of knowledge about the industry, he soon would excel. “It taught me everything I needed to know about the industry,” he said of the experience. “I started off as an account executive at that company, learned the ropes – what it was, what lending was and how it works – got my matrixes and moved up to manage a team that became the highest-producing team in the company.”
Then the Great Financial Crisis emerged. “From there, I bumped over to a company called Equifirst,” Fisher recalled. “They actually hung on through 2009.”
Source: mpamag.com