- This file was automatically generated by VIMEO 0 00:00:00.220 --> 00:00:03.400 All right, so from brokers to lenders, we were talking to everyone here, 1 00:00:03.400 --> 00:00:07.600 president at Broker Ferry 2023. So Raymond, I'm gonna introduce you. 2 00:00:07.600 --> 00:00:10.360 Go ahead and kind of step in. So you're just gonna look at me. 3 00:00:10.540 --> 00:00:13.920 So for those that don't know you at home, I know who you are. Uh, 4 00:00:14.230 --> 00:00:17.640 your first and your last name and the company that you're with. Raymond 5 00:00:17.690 --> 00:00:18.800 Grand. J g funding. 6 00:00:19.860 --> 00:00:23.640 So Raymond, walk me through, I mean, broker Fair for you. You know, 7 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:26.080 you're representing a table right now, you're representing a company. 8 00:00:26.620 --> 00:00:27.880 What's the experience been like? 9 00:00:28.190 --> 00:00:30.120 It's been great. It's always great to come out here. You know, 10 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:33.640 we're meeting a lot of active brokers that we have signed up already and, uh, 11 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:34.800 making relations with new ones. 12 00:00:35.190 --> 00:00:39.840 Kind of talk to me about how important it is for someone to put a face 13 00:00:40.020 --> 00:00:43.880 to the name. You guys work with a ton of people throughout the year. Yeah. Uh, 14 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:45.640 and just building that relationship, seeing them, 15 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:46.960 building it from a place like this. 16 00:00:47.340 --> 00:00:49.880 How important and what impact does that have on your business? 17 00:00:50.860 --> 00:00:53.880 So it's been great. I mean, uh, you know, we've been signing up. 18 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.840 We signed up a new, I sold the last broker fair in September, I believe October. 19 00:00:58.820 --> 00:01:01.440 And, uh, the month after they funded like one and a half million with us. 20 00:01:01.980 --> 00:01:02.960 It was been great. 21 00:01:03.910 --> 00:01:08.000 What advice would you have to someone that's ever been to a broker fair about 22 00:01:08.020 --> 00:01:09.320 how it could change your business? 23 00:01:10.220 --> 00:01:13.360 Um, there's always new lenders out there you could sign up with. There's, uh, 24 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:16.280 lenders that you could rehash relationships. 25 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:21.040 Maybe you've been funding a lot in the past and it hasn't been the same. But, 26 00:01:21.100 --> 00:01:25.000 uh, there's definitely a lot of, a lot you can do. A lot of money to be made. 27 00:01:26.220 --> 00:01:28.800 All right man. Well thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it so much, Ram.