Being a Jew, awesome. Managing personal finances, not so awesome. Welcome to kosher money.

Another episode of kosher money going through these things like crazy. Today we're heading

into the big, wonderful world of home buying. We have with us Evan Templeman, a branch manager at cross-country mortgage, which is a mortgage lending company, mortgage bankers.

Correct.

And they're based in Ohio, but you're based here in the five towns.

That's correct.

So I look at this episode as an episode where people can share with their

friends and family as a way to be exposed to the world of home buying. When I bought a home,

I knew very little about it. I called my older brother. He told me a little bit. But people have a ton of

questions and they learn a lot as they're going through

the process, but our goal here is to try to shed a little bit of light into this murky world.

I'm sure you know all the ins and outs of this world. How do you get into this space?

Okay. It's an interesting question. I was actually in Kaila and Yashiva Frakoy, and my father-in-law is a real estate appraiser. I was already thinking about starting a career. He introduced me to a company that he was already doing a lot of business with. And really, from that first meeting with them, we hit it off. And I started at that

company. It was called First Financial Equities. And from there, I moved around until I'm finally at my

current location, which I feel most comfortable at. How many years of schooling with does someone

need for a position like this? So when I started in the industry, I think it was 2008.

That was prior to any licensing requirement.

You literally were able to come straight from Kylo, like for example myself, or many people

would literally just jump in when the market was hot.

Now already they do require 40 hours of training, but there's also a test.

Doesn't sound super intense, right?

Like there's 40 hours one week and you're right into it.

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