David G. Kittle is CEO of Cypress Mortgage Capital, a correspondent lending company based in the USVI. He began his mortgage banking career in 1978 with American Fletcher Mortgage Company. Kittle moved to the management side in 1986 with Colwell Financial. In 1994, he co-founded Associates Mortgage Group, Inc., the first of his three lending companies, selling AMG in 2006 as President & CEO.
Kittle is past president of both the Louisville and Kentucky Mortgage Bankers Associations. He chaired MBA’s political action committee (2004-2006) MORPAC and served the industry as Chairman of the MBA, in Washington, DC in 2009.
David Kittle testified before Congress 14 times ~ leading the industry during its most tumultuous period.
Kittle is Co-Founder & Partner of The Mortgage Collaborative, the industry’s premier mortgage cooperative, serving as its President and Board Vice Chairman from 2013-2020. He earned his CMB designation in 2004.
Kittle has four children and lives in both St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Louisville, KY.
Episode Highlights:
- Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Mortgage Servicing Rights (MSR)
- Warehouse line of credit
Episode Notes:
Narrator This is The Norris Group’s Real Estate Investor radio show the award winning show dedicated to thought leaders shaping the real estate industry and local experts revealing their insider tips to succeed in an ever changing real estate market hosted by author, investor and hard money lender, Bruce Norris.
Bruce Norris Hi, thank you for joining us. My name is Bruce Norris. And once again, we are joined by David Kittel. And we’ll talk about mortgages and everything else involved in real estate. How do you evaluate the safety of the current pile of loans that are in place as opposed to any other time in, in mortgage history? Seems to me…
David Kittle Yeah, we’re making the best loans we’ve ever made right now. We came out of the crisis, and it took a couple of years, but the loans are being scrutinized. They’re being underwritten the way they’re supposed to be. It’s the reason, one of the reasons we have started Cypress Mortgage Capital, because it’s a correspondent lending company, we’re going to buy close loans, and we’re going to do MSRs, we’re going to service, we’re going to get Mortgage Servicing Rights, because MSRs the servicing side of it is more valuable today, because rates are lower, they won’t move on.
Bruce Norris Right.
David Kittle People are staying in their homes.
Bruce Norris Okay.
David Kittle I think we’re making the best loans ever right now.
Bruce Norris Now, what you just said, that’s interesting. So, interest rates. I mean, I think this is an accurate statement. This is maybe a historic low, but it’s certainly a low in the last 100 years. So, I think I’m going to go back to 1980, when we’re funding loans at 17 and a half. And then for the next 40 years, there’s a gradual decline in interest rates and assuming that your portfolio is filled with a smattering of those loans for, you know, for the whole duration, older loans were more profitable interest rate wise. And so for the last 40 years, we’ve had the luxury of anything that’s in the portfolio probably pays more than today’s loan. What happens when that’s chart reverses?
David Kittle When interest rates are lower than…?
Bruce Norris Well, no. Well, right now you, so, let’s say now you’ve got the lowest ever and I just interviewed Doug Duncan, Chief Economist of Fannie Mae, and he’s going after, say a prediction of 6% GDP growth in 2021. That’s the top GDP growth in 50 years, and we had a quarter percent fed fund rate. So, I’m, I’m trying to say what, what happens to the value of the mortgage portfolio if the mortgage rate goes to four or 5%. And your portfolio’s at two and three quarters?
David Kittle Well, it’s a great, that’s a, it’s a real conundrum and a real delta, there isn’t. But nobody that has, this is my opinion, if you’ve refinanced, to either pull cash out or to remodel your home, or you’ve purchased your home, and you’ve got a two and three quarter or a three and a half percent rate and rates go to 6%. You’re not moving.
Bruce Norris No.
David Kittle So, the value of that three and a half percent loan staying on the books for 12 years as compared to a 6% loan, that may go up and may come back down and stay on there five or six years, I would argue that the longer term income is better for you.
Bruce Norris Okay.
David Kittle Your returns better, it’s a shorter return and more risk, because that loan, if rates fall again, after they go to six or six and a half, you’re going to lose that.
Bruce Norris Okay.
David Kittle But it’s, it’s a delta and it’s a conundrum to fight. And it’s going to be an interesting MSR evaluation process, if that hits, and if Doug is correct.
Bruce Norris You know, it’s interesting. I mean, in your entire lifetime of dealing with the loans, it’s been almost the entirety of my career. Interest rates have basically done nothing but go down other than in short, short chunks, so, that’s, that’s what we’re used to. So, it’ll be it’s just interesting to contemplate the other side, now… We wrote a report in 2017 with it, with the cover 2% mortgage rates and 40 trillion in debt. So, unfortunately, we got one and we’re about probably to get to 50 or something on the other one. So anyway…
David Kittle We’re at 1950s interest rates right now, basically, back, you know, my way before I got in the business, VA rates were down to four or whatever they were, and I had never seen it when I originated, this low. Right, they fallen all the way down. I never thought that they would get as low as they are now. Never, I would have lost that bet. but you got to look at if that GDP hits that then you know incomes will go up and the economy’s just going to be steamrolling, and interest rates have to go up at some point because every time. Look, we don’t have free markets. They’re all manipulated markets, right. The Feds been manipulating rates for 13 to 15 years holding rates down. So, when you help one market which is homes, real estate, mortgage business, you’re killing somebody else. And we’ve been killing fixed incomes for 15 years, people and their security and everything else, they’ve got no increase and no return people on fixed investments, they’ve gotten smashed in this. So, you help one artificially, you hurt somebody else.
Bruce Norris Okay, so do you, do you think that that’s going to be a change in, in that cycle long term? Or is that? Is that hard to say?
David Kittle I think we’re good. So, if you want me to give you an answer, I’ll give you my best guess, my educated guess. And certainly Doug Duncan is better than that, than I am. But if rates go back up, then it certainly will help people on social security and fixed incomes. But you know, I was always of the, of the side that says, as rates go up, people get off the fence. Surely.
Bruce Norris That’s right. You’re right.
David Kittle If this is going to happen and Doug’s correct, the refinance market will essentially be over. And you’re going to go back to a purchase market. Therefore, if I could go on just a quick deep dive tangent. Those people that have gotten in my business, since the meltdown in 2008, have never seen high interest rates. They don’t know how to sell, period, all they’re selling is rate and know how to sell into a higher interest rate market. So, it’d be very difficult for them, I think you’ll see some companies closed or be acquired if rates go up.
Bruce Norris Well, especially if the refi what percentage is the refi market of the of the loan business at this point? Is it 40 or 50%?
David Kittle Oh, at least.
Bruce Norris Yeah.
David Kittle It has been. It’s been a great market for all my friends that still own their mortgage companies. They’ve been printing money for the last year and a half and good for them you know, they’ve been making tons of money on all these refis. But when the if they’re not prepared for a purchase market, they’re going to get hurt.
Bruce Norris Can you take me through the journey of how the paper gets created and where it ends up? I, I don’t really, I don’t understand that completely. So, if I’m a mortgage broker, and I create a loan, let’s say if it’s, it’s, if it’s Fannie and Freddie, are they the buyers of that, or the guarantors of that, what is, what is their status in that?
David Kittle If you’re just a mortgage broker, and you don’t have your own warehouse lines, then you’re selling those loans to an aggregator who’s going to be on doing wholesale. Like if it’s Wells Fargo, who is also on the correspondent side. You know, we’re not, the model that we have down here is only correspondent lending, buying closed, loans off people’s warehouse lines, we’re not on the broke-, we don’t have no plan to be at this point. Third party origination platform, but they’re going to sell that loan, they get paid for the servicing rights, they get cut a check and they’re out of it. Somebody bought that loan, and then they’re going to sell it to Fannie or Freddie and retain the servicing rights to them and either service that or subserves.
Aaron Norris Fannie and Freddie are the people that hold the loan in that case for, for the duration?
David Kittle Correct. Yeah, unless they’ve got, you know, different private investors out there. To do it, but yes, in most third party originations, it’s Fannie and Freddie. Thery’re selling it to an aggregator who’s selling to the GSEs.
Bruce Norris Now, where does the Mortgage Backed Security entered into the fray there?
David Kittle Well, that would be Wells Fargo, or an independent mortgage banker who had their own correspondent lending who wants to do their own MBSs. And if you have the expertise and the skill to do that, then that’s a really way to pair off your interest rate risk, and to keep yourself competitive. So…
Bruce Norris When, when we first had the Coronavirus hit. And I’m going to ask you a little bit about the market reaction to that good because I was, I was really surprised in 2019. In, for California, that’s what I’m most familiar with. We had really the best set of charts that I’d ever seen. We had reasonably low inventory, no foreclosures to compete against pretty boring sales and no price increases with honestly the best set of charts. And then about April, May, all of a sudden it’s off to the races or sales go up about 25% or prices go up 17 and a half. And, you know if I, if I asked a crowd, okay, well, how certain are you of what’s coming next in 2020? It would have been a very different answer than if I asked the question in 2019. And I realized, wow, urgency, Trump’s certainty. And I didn’t know that. I mean, to me, that was a real shocker that we could do that with all the uncertainty. So, I just, the reason I brought that up is when we had the moratoriums on monthly payments. There was something about the servicers that they kind of got caught in the middle And, and then how.
David Kittle And President Biden has extended that.
Bruce Norris And the middle is saying that you have to, you have to compensate the lender for what’s not being paid you? Is that accurate?
David Kittle Yeah, if you’re, if you’re servicing the loan, that payment is due to the investor regardless of whether the borrower makes the payment or not. So, he put, there was a real fear among servicers or people who were subserves. That was a cash crunch on its way. And you know, it, like I said before, when you are manipulating a market in any way, you’re hurt, helping one and hurting somebody else, you can’t help everybody in the market, somebody gets affected negatively when you are pulling the string to help one portion of it.
Bruce Norris Okay.
David Kittle And that’s what happened with low interest rates, to the fixed incomes, and that’s what could, we could have had a really bad warehouse line, servicer crunch. And there were a lot of margin calls a year ago, this time. And..
Bruce Norris Now, how did that get fixed?
David Kittle Cash people borrowed against their mortgage servicing, okay, they borrowed money to make their, their calls. And a lot of them originated their way out of it, as rates fell and kept generating cash. But there were some people who, who didn’t make their margin calls, it could have been a lot worse than it was. But I will say this MBA, you know, if they do nothing else, and they do a lot, but if they do nothing else, they advocate for their members better than anybody. And they went to the hill and the lobbyist and the leadership and MBA and help to work that off and avert a real crisis, they did a great job.
Bruce Norris When I owned the servicing rights, I mean, I thought that was sort of like a separate room. Because the person that owns the mortgage, I thought was a in a, in a different room. But kind of what you’re saying is that maybe they own the mortgage, but I have the payment responsibility. I didn’t know that could be carved out, but you’re saying it is?
David Kittle Well. Look, you can make all kinds of decisions, when you originate the loan, I can sell the loan. And even if I have warehouse lines, I don’t have to service. And the three lending companies I had, I never had any MSRs I didn’t serve as anyone’s.
Bruce Norris Okay.
David Kittle But there are people out there right now, I have great friends that are mid-sized mortgage companies that are getting every loan on the books to service what they can because they believe they’re valuable, like I said earlier to stay on the books longer. But if you have, you know, forbearance, and the borrower doesn’t understand forbearance, I mean, most of them, they go, I just don’t have to make my payments. It’s no big deal. And then when forbearance is over, it’s all due at once it’s not explained properly. But somebody still has to make that payment. So, when the government says, ‘Oh, it’s okay, you know, we’re going to give you because of COVID. You don’t have to make your payments for whatever time period’, the servicer still has to make the payments.
Bruce Norris Okay.
David Kittle And so, somebody gets hurt in a manipulated market. Always.
Bruce Norris Right. Right now we have 90-day lates, approximately, well, actually larger than 2008.
David Kittle Yes.
Bruce Norris What do you think the outcome of that is?
David Kittle I think the outcome would scare me if I had a book of servicing right now, I’d be evaluating my servicing portfolio, okay? Because people think, who can still make their payments are just taking a break. Not a lot. But there are some out there, they’re just saying, because they don’t understand those payments are still going to be due at some point. And it’s going to affect their credit, it’s just, it’s, it’s just the government saying, well, and I’m paraphrasing here, not exact verbiage, ‘but we’re going to extend for, forbearance, and you can follow up until June of this year, just to give you a little bit more’. ‘Okay, that’s great!’ Explain to them what forbearance is, and they’re not doing a good job. And with people that are 90-days late right now, as that increases, if you’re servicing loans, that would really bother me that, that’s a problem on the horizon.
Joey Romero Is that because people are making the incorrect assumption that when the forbearance end that the banks are just going to be Hey, we’ll tack it to the end
David Kittle Yes.
Joey Romero Keep round going.
David Kittle Like I said, that’s a good, that’s a great, better explanation. And actually what I did, and that’s exactly what they’re doing, they think it’s going to be tacked on to the end. It’s not due, those payments are due.
Bruce Norris Is it the lenders decision to say, ‘Okay, we’ll put them on the back end?’
David Kittle No, that’s in security and I’m going to, we have a little bit of a guess on that, but because it’s in the Mortgage Backed Security, no. That those payments are still due. I didn’t, I didn’t realize that could become an issue. I really thought it would be, especially because of the aggressive foreclosures, you know, prices got hit pretty hard in 2008, and nine because it was the dominant inventory for sale, I thought we’d probably intentionally pass on that solution. So… So think about the decisions that have made, all the bad decisions that have been made during this virus, shutting the economy down. What does the CDC say, mixed messages out there, depending on which doctor you listen to each state, California making horrible decisions, in my opinion, Florida, keeping everything open, their economy still going, you have to look at your servicing portfolio. And geographically, where are the loans that you’re servicing? Where are they? And you have to look at them in that perspective as well. And just a little evaluation.
Bruce Norris Well, it’s interesting what you just said, because there’s a lot of sensitive people. These days, I had a presentation I did in San Diego. And basically what I said, the gist of what I said is California and Florida handling the Coronavirus very differently. I said this morning, I went out I live in Florida now so I went to work out at LA Fitness. There was no one there that wore a mask not even the people that were the personal trainers working one-on-one with people. I have people that own gyms in California that you can open the doors. So, that’s what I basically that in a nutshell, is what I said I got a 20 page email, negative response for that comment.
David Kittle Did you really?
Bruce Norris Yeah. And this was from somebody that formerly liked me says, ‘I used to really respect you now. I think you’re a you know, an A hole’ and went on to tell me. Yeah, I crossed a couple of different lines. I also, you know, somebody asked me, you know why I like Florida. And I said, Well, one of the reasons I like Florida is because I feel like I understand the rules of engagement. I feel like sometimes the rules in California can get changed without my permission, or without me knowing it’s coming.
David Kittle So, I would think that a different way in California, the government is going to tell you what and when. And it can change at any time. And you have your choice in Florida to live your life the way you want to. And that’s the, that’s the actual divide in our country right there. Right? That’s it.
Bruce Norris Yeah. Yeah.
Joey Romero David, can I have a question? I have a question. So, you said you know, part of the reason that you, you started the new company was because they have a SARS. And that the refi it’s going to be pretty much gone. Right?
David Kittle Right.
Joey Romero So…
David Kittle If Doug Duncan is correct, and the rates rise, there’s not going to be any alarms to refinance.
Joey Romero Okay, so, so the new purchase inventory being what it is, where are you expecting all the, all the new purchase, you know, mortgage to come from?
David Kittle Okay, so prices are up and prices are going to skyrocket even more because the biggest, I shouldn’t say the biggest one of the top three problems. I have a really good friend of the biggest business Phil Bracken, very smart man, great friend. And he’s been harping on this for the last three and a half years. And he’s right. We have an inventory problem of affordable housing. All right. It used to be when I got in the business, I used to call it the move up market. You buy your nice little house live in it for a couple of years. It appreciates. You move up, wife wants a bigger kitchen, live there a few years and finally get you know, your, your second or third move, you get your dream home, people moved up. No body that is just getting out of college right now going to go out and afford a $300,000 house.
Joey Romero Well, where is that $300,000 house in California?
David Kittle Well, it’s not in California, but I’m saying you know, in my I’m going from the Midwest, there is but they can’t afford that. But you can’t find that in California, therefore, with rates going up even higher, and no inventory. And I hate the term perfect storm, but it’s going to be an imperfect storm for a business because there is no affordable housing.
Bruce Norris Right. Well, you know, what’s affordable about housing is the interest rate. And so, I’ll circle back around that’s, that’s how you get somebody in if the downpayment isn’t the issue, the monthly payment, it’s a two and three quarter percent interest. It is on sale.
David Kittle The downpayment isn’t the issue for the young couple who’s just coming out of college and they’re having to pay back their student loans. And they don’t have it.
Bruce Norris Right.
David Kittle That is the problem.
Bruce Norris Right. But I mean, that’s, I think that’s within well, wouldn’t that be a better policy than giving somebody a $15,000 tax credit? I mean…
David Kittle Zero down. That’s back to the discussion that we started with. So, I agree with you as long as it’s underwritten properly, and they have residual income and let’s get them in the house.
Bruce Norris Okay. Okay. This is more an economist question, but it has, it does have to do with interest rates. The interview with Duncan actually made me think because I always thought all this money that we’re throwing into the economy kept on getting us to zero, not to six, I was thought we were trying to make up for what didn’t happen. And we were breaking even. So, I thought we were trying to prevent deflation, honestly. And when I saw those numbers, and what really struck me was they usually have a three year projection. So, if I went backwards, and I looked at the projection, so in January of 2019, they had projected for 2021 2%, GDP growth. And the same in January 2020, predicted 2021 would have 2% GDP growth. And then now they’re looking at six and 6.6% GDP growth. And so, I just thought, wow, okay. We’re not trying to break even we’re, we’re now off to the races. And that’s really surprised me because I thought, and this is why I want to ask you, the things that are in place that could be deflationary, to me seem like they’re growing in momentum. People that are over 65 are growing as a percentage of the population and not part of the workforce that’s inherently deflationary, I think. When you make progression in robotics, or artificial intelligence, that’s kind of the same way. It’s naturally deflationary. So, I’m still having a little struggle thinking how we’re going to create really high inflation, but okay. That’s, that’s a that’s a different problem than I thought we were going to be tackling.
David Kittle I think, I don’t know whether that’s tied directly to housing. And let me give you one tangent why I think that if we, if everything you just said is true. In housing right now, if what we just said a minute ago about it is true, then they are totally separate in that it’s inflationary in housing right now with interest rates going up. And because the factors no inventory.
Aaron Norris Right.
David Kittle Less on the market, the price of that house. Look, my neighbors in Louisville put their house on the market. They moved last week, he got relocated to Minneapolis, hated to see him go, great friends. They put their house on the market three weeks ago, the day after they put on the market, they had 10 showings, and they sold it for almost 10,000 more than they had it listed for same day.
Bruce Norris Yes.
David Kittle Because there’s no inventory.
Bruce Norris Yeah. Well, it’s, that’s an interesting thing, too. Because, oh, in California, typically right now, we would be building at a peak market 150,000 new homes. And we’re building 60. And we’ve been building 60 or 50, for the last eight years when the cycle normally would grow. So, those homes never got to be part of the existing home base. So, when you have demand of 500,000 units, it used to be made up of 150,000 new homes.
David Kittle Correct.
Bruce Norris Well, it’s not. So, that 90 extra 1000 lands on the existing inventory. And half of those people say, Hey, I got a 2% mortgage rate, man, I go nowhere.
David Kittle Because I just got the 2% I pulled my cash out and remodel it. My wife has a new kitchen, we put in a pool. We’re staying.
Bruce Norris Yeah, you’re staying. That’s right. Why not? Okay. Well, that’s a really interesting thing. You know, we’re, we’re constructing homes in Florida. And I can tell you that one of the big challenges of, for inflation, if you will, is ‘Okay, can we get a piece of lumber? Can we get an appliance?’ So, I understand too much money chasing something that’s scarcity, because the price goes up. That’s, that’s, in fact, what occurs. So, yes, that’s really interesting. Well, here’s getting back right at the beginning. See, I think there’s a window of opportunity. Before Interest rates go up, you want affordable housing, we have it for free, it’s called an interest rate at two. If we get as many people as we can legitimately qualified with a VA loan process, we’ll have done them in America, I thought, I think a big favor. And if we miss this, what we’re going to do is try to subsidize it with dollars, rather than a program.
David Kittle Well, that’s always Congress. And government’s response is to subsidize everything with money. I mean, you know, the argument right now is the $1.9 trillion surplus, which is 70% pork that has nothing to do with COVID. And they’re not even looking at the 900 billion of the previous stimulus they haven’t even spent yet.
Bruce Norris Yes.
David Kittle So, then, I mean, the term printing money this time is absolutely fact. They’re spending so much money right now, because of this, and bailing out every city that didn’t manage themselves, right. giving it to post offices, and I mean, and it’s driving up the cost of everything, you know, is it going to affect me? I don’t know. I’m going to be 65 years old next month. To your point, right. I’m going to be one of those people you just mentioned. And it’s my kids and grandkids.
Bruce Norris Yeah. That would end up paying for this. That’s right. Do you do you pay attention to a gentleman named Ray Dalio?
David Kittle I know the name but no, sir.
Bruce Norris Okay, he’s written some interesting things. He’s a, he’s a very smart man, I’m gonna try and interview him. I don’t even know if I’m intelligent enough to ask him questions to be honest with you, in what he knows, what he’s done is basically, like, I’ve studied cycles that have existed in my lifetime. He studied cycles going back 500 years about how countries lose their, their status, like the dollar, the reserve currency status, so he went back all the way to Dutch and all that. And unfortunately, we’re following some patterns that are scary. And so that’s, you know, that’s one of those things that it’s over my, my paygrade to try and even barely comprehend but…
David Kittle It’s probably overmind too, Bruce, but I hear what you’re saying. And I wouldn’t argue at all the premise. I mean, you can’t keep doing this forever. You just can’t.
Bruce Norris Yeah, that’s…
Joey Romero Being, being in the industry as long as you have. What is your take on technology? In the mortgage industry?
David Kittle I have this discussion all the time. You have to have it. It’s a must. But you can’t get away from relationships in any business. And I go back to that, and I know all my friends in the business, including my kids are so sick of me saying it, but people do business with people they like and trust. This is now and always will be a relationship business. My father’s words to me in 1978 when I got into the business, alright. Here’s how I’m going to answer that quickly. When I was a loan officer, six years to the day, when I started, I didn’t have a fax machine, I didn’t have my own underwriter, I had to take everything to FHA and VA to be underwritten. I had to hand carry my verifications. I waited three weeks for an appraisal, two weeks to get a credit report typed. Now, that sounds like every father, well, when I was a boy, I walked 12 miles to school every day, which was, you know, a lie.
Joey Romero In the snow uphill.
David Kittle In the snow. But we close loans back then, with minimal fraud, hand carrying everything in 30-days, funded them. With all the technology in the world right now with an L.O.S out there, pick one that tells you and prompts you through everything we used to have to disclose truth and lending by hand, by the way. Most loan officers today can’t spell truth and lending and don’t know what it means couldn’t explain it if they wanted to. And I’m lumping a bunch of them in and they’re not closing loans in 30-days, they’re closing in 45 or longer. Some of them are. But for the most part, the market with all the technology in the world, we have more fraud than we’ve ever had. And we’re taking longer to close loans. So, technology’s great as long as it’s applied correctly. But you still have to have the relationship to get the business. And we’re just we’re not doing any faster any better than we did 40 years ago. And that’s a fact. And there’ll be people who argue with me, but they won’t win it.
Bruce Norris I’m going to tell you a story that exactly what you just said about remaining a person that contacts people. I had a really interesting experience. You know, when we were one of the people that were predicting the crash turned out to be right, we got invited to UBS to speak to the top 10 hedge funds at dinner, which was kind of funny, Bruce Norris gets to sit with the top 10 hedge funds. And the first question I asked them was actually truthful. I said, I don’t, hedge funds. What do you guys do? I don’t really know. And, and they had a good laugh about that. But I was being honest, I didn’t really know. And I think that was probably smart for me to do. But the gentleman that had invited me there, then took me around because that was pretty successful meeting. And we went to meet a gentleman named Julian Robertson. And he was the he was the guy that created the Tiger Fund. And he was revered in Wall Street. But what I noticed when we got off the elevator to his office, Julian saw this gentleman, and it looked like he had seen his long lost son for the first time in 10 years. It was it was impressive. And he came in he hugged and this guy was a broker from USC, basically. Or, but, he was, he was obviously more than that to this man. And so, I interviewed him. I said, you didn’t see this reaction, but I did. So, let me tell you what I saw. And then in the next day or two being in the area, that’s all I heard was, how, how great you were, hands on you were. He said, Yeah, he said, Everybody else is texting. And he says, I, I made belly to belly with 10 people a day. And I said, ‘Well, I can tell you what they think you walk on water man.’ That’s…
David Kittle You know, that’s the one thing everybody loves about you, Bruce, is your candor standing up there and saying you, you’ll tell people you don’t know what you don’t know. Okay, not, not everybody does that. And to that point, exactly right. What has this virus done, it’s taken, we’re sitting here doing a radio interview, look at each other on a zoom call, people are tired of zoom. You can’t go to a conference. It’s human much, that we’re not getting kids back in school. We’re damaging our children by not doing that. And that’s back to the relationship of the business. That’s the greatest thing about the mortgage and the real estate in the homebuilding business is the relationships you develop with people. And..
Aaron Norris Yeah.
David Kittle …people still want to sit down I think, and, and do business face to face.
Bruce Norris I think they do.
David Kittle Maybe I’m just old school…
Bruce Norris Yeah, well, thank God. Some of us still, are, you know, I will probably wrap up what I was, when I, and I thank you so, so much for not only for you coming to our I Survived Events constantly. But always recommending whoever happened to be the next person that was probably going to get invited, you always put in a good word. And so, they always felt like it was okay to come.
Joey Romero I’ve been writing down names he’s been dropping right now, like, hey, ‘David Kittle mentioned, you’d be great for the show’.
David Kittle
If you want a list, call me man, if you can’t get anybody to come, call me because I’m happy to come back. That’s greatest three evenings I’ve ever spent in my life.
Bruce Norris Man, thank you. Well, at the end of those meetings, man, this is what I end up saying. I always ask everybody what’s like what’s on their mind. And mine is, has not changed. But it’s and I used to be so optimistic it was going to be true, is that I would like every elected official to not act like a Republican or a Democrat, but to act like an American first. And, man, I’m losing, I’m losing faith in that being a priority. And I used to, I used to be, I used to believe it was going to be true, and…
David Kittle Yeah me too, I’m losing faith as well. And I’ll just tell you that. And I’ve actually said this at your events before. But what we need now more than anything, are people that you just described, which we don’t have for the most part. I think people go to Congress with that intent and then lose it. Remember, it’s never about the money. It’s always about the money. And there’s too much money in politics, and we need term limits.
Bruce Norris Yes!
David Kittle Definitely.
Bruce Norris Yeah, why can’t. Okay, well, do we have to ask Congress to pass that? Or is that something that we can grassroots?
David Kittle You got to get it on a ballot, but you know, that their response is always where you control term limits by voting for us. And that’s really not true, because it’s always the one with the most money can run the best campaign. I mean, that’s just it how it is at the end of the day. It’s a shame, when you take the money out of it, they shouldn’t be able to lobby after they leave, and they ought to have term limits.
Bruce Norris I would go with you anywhere to do that. But whatever we have to do, man, amen.
Joey Romero I used to, I serve in a lot of nonprofit boards, and one of the healthiest things that we did was impose, you know, to term limits, you know, three years twice, and then turn it over.
David Kittle That’s right. And it should that’s a, you’re spot on.
Bruce Norris Yeah. All right. Well, David, I, I’ve always enjoyed talking with you especially enjoyed this, this conversation and have a safe trip home.
David Kittle Thank you, Bruce. I appreciate you asking me again. It’s great to see you and I always enjoy this time with you, so and I have a blessed day. Talk to you soon.
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