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Sean Murray: Cause I feel like
there's this old adage of like,

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you know, cutting out the
middleman. Is there this value

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to being a broker? You're
talking about gifts and happy

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birthday, and all that stuff,
like, do you feel like there's a

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value to the broker in the
process of small business

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funding?

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Sonia Alvelo: I think so. I for
so many years, when I started in

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the business, everybody was
like, oh, your a broker, you

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know, no, no, you know, I only
do business with with the

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lender. I don't think that way.
I think a lot of bad people form

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a bad reputation on companies
like ours, and they don't see us

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the same way. But, you know, if
you are a good broker, you know,

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what to do you, uh, you know,
what to do for your clients. I

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would love to stay broker
forever, you know, that's,

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that's fine with me because I'm
happy and my merchants are happy

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and they continue coming back.
So you know, and other lenders

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are there, you know, hey, call
me let's do something to help

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the Latino community. You know,
it is there. It is possible.

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And, you know, obviously, I'm
going to make sure that they

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treat you right, that they will
pay that bet that they will come

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back as as a renewal. So it's a
lot of misinformation, obviously

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with the brokers some.