Adam Torres and Jose Tejada discuss the NAHREP at L’ATTITUDE conference.
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Listen to the NAHREP at L’ATTITUDE coverage. In this episode, Adam Torres Interviews Jose Tejada, Vice President Of Mortgage Lending at Rate, explore mortgage lending and the NAHREP at L’ATTITUDE event in San Diego, California.
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest of the show, just head on over to MissionMatters. com and click on Be Our Guest to Apply. Alright, so today I have Jose Tejada on the show, and guess what? We are in San Diego, California, and we’re at the Latitude event with NAREP, and Jose is the current year president of the Los Angeles chapter of NAREP.
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It feels great. And it feels great to be here at Latitude in San Diego. This is a convention of the top real estate professionals and real estate affiliates, as well as venture capital, sports, and construction in the entire country for the Hispanic market. So how long have you been coming to Latitude?
And maybe tell us a little bit about your background with NAREP and just Latitude in general, because this is, this is Mission Matters. This is our first year coming. And I’ll tell you, man, from what I’ve seen so far, I’m coming back. Yeah. You know what? This is actually my third Latitude conference.
Yeah. And when I came, I was completely blown away by what this organization is doing. And I decided to get very involved. And as you mentioned earlier, I got involved very quickly and was able to earn the presidency of the L. A. chapter. And coming back here, because this is where I first started. Came to my first conference.
Yeah. Coming back three years later, it’s a completely different, we were just talking about that now. I know so many people and the relationships just completely multiply. It’s a blessing. I really enjoy it. What’s your favorite part about networking within like the I know you’ve been watching a bunch of the Content that has been on stage and presented a lot of numbers a lot of stats But before we get into some of the maybe content that you’ve enjoyed What’s been your favorite part about like connecting with colleagues and people because I’m not in real estate day to day I’m not in mortgages day to day, but I can see like the camaraderie.
I can see the Latinos coming together Walters some common goals, maybe talk about that a little bit So you can hear right now, Latin music is playing. So what we have is this conference is we get the big sense of familia, which is very connected to being part of the Hispanic culture. A lot of that, what you’ll see here is the warmth of the people hugging each other, saying hi to each other.
Yeah. And that it turns, translates into business. So my favorite part is exactly what you said. Being amongst thousands of Latinos from across the country, connecting and embracing, I had a great connection just in Miami, which is my second largest market today, where I’m going to be able to expand my business.
We just being around all the events. Yeah. So talk a little bit more about what’s going on with the rate. I know that you’ve been on, I, as I just mentioned a moment ago, he’s on this big billboard doing all these things. I want to talk about the Contigo campaign, if I’m saying it correctly. Like, cause I know rates doing some big things to help and to support the Latino market.
Absolutely. We continue to be the only mortgage lender in the country that provides low documents completely in language, completely in Spanish. So that’s. I don’t think people always understand what that means, but it means that literally your loan estimates, your loan approvals, your loan conditions, all that will be in Spanish and the processes will be in language.
Now, if you have if you’re an immigrant or a child immigrant. You might have had an experience of trying to translate documents for your parents at a very young age, taking that responsibility. At RAID, we believe heavily in empowering the community, and that’s why we invest the money in providing these documents in their language.
Yeah, I would argue, I know you and I have had some conversations about this, but any organization or company, when they’re, when they’re attempting to service the Latino market, like, they have to do it a certain way. They have to make sure it’s authentic. They have to make sure the leadership at rate seems to get it to me because I see the campaigns.
I see what they’re doing. Maybe just talk about leadership a little bit and why you’re so, because every time we talk, you’re fired up, man. No, I really am. And I think that it comes down to the company values and the connecting in an authentic way. Like you said, yeah, our leadership with Camilo and Arlen at the top and you really leading the momentum.
Of rate as a company and then understanding the community and understanding the values of our people connects with me as a, as a human, as a person, but also as a producer, because when I see a firm investing the way that they do it to our community, I want to produce more and be back in that community, bringing deals back to the company.
Man, that makes so much sense. So as we go into we’re 2024 right now going into 2025, what are some of your goals? What are some of your goals as you’re helping your clients out there? Right now I’m licensed in five states. The idea is to grow that footprint and be licensed in more states. Connecting, leading through the, what we call here, you hear this term a lot at this conference, is that we’re the major minority.
The Latin market is the market. I think that that’s, we’re such drivers of economy. In fact, the Hispanic wealth report is getting released. Literally right now upstairs and you can see what those numbers mean for me is to continue to grow my business continue to grow My practice people leave with the his life a little bit.
Yeah so far from what you’ve seen I know that that particular report is being released right now and we’re doing an interview but so far in terms of the content Why do you think so? There’s a lot of people that have watched this at home that are that are in the market or they’re in real estate They’re maybe professionals.
Why should they be at this conference here today? You We have the CEO of Zillow speaking in about 20 minutes. Wow. There’s a reason why people like that are here. Yeah. We’ve had Jenny Guyman here. We had Barack Obama here. We had President Clinton in here. Yes. We we’re gonna have Tony Robbins closing tomorrow.
Wow. If those names don’t tell you enough for why you should did it, I don’t know what I can tell. You know why they should be here? Yeah. That is exactly why. This is a very powerful. This is the conference to be pulled. If you’re going to be in the aesthetic market, the business of working with atheists.
All right. Last thing I want you to look into the camera. How can people follow you? How can they work with you? How can they get more info? I’m on Instagram at tejada lending a lot of content almost every day. You’ll see me there, or you can email me at Jose deda TD [email protected]. Fantastic. If for everybody watching this, just so you know, we’ll put all the links in the show notes so that you can just click on the links and head right on over.
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Jose, man, thanks again for coming on. Appreciate it. so much. Appreciate you. See ya.