CRMP: Across the Kitchen Table
Being Active Jensen’s family was civically and politically active, and community involvement remains baked into her DNA. She is active in the local Chamber of Commerce and other business organizations. She founded a discussion group, Logic and Liberty, which talks about the found- ing documents of the U.S. such as the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. “We’re a bunch of nerds, basically,” she says. Time will tell whether her work in reverse mortgages has made a difference in the lives of her clients. “I like to think that I have, indeed, had an impact, but that will be for other people and God to decide,” she says. “We start every consultation with a blank sheet of paper, a pen and a cup of coffee or the beverage of their choice. That is strategic. This is something my grandmother taught me.” —Christine Jensen, CRMP, senior vice president of Reverse Lending at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp.
could do. Maybe it’s finding money to do some of the things you wanted to do. We interview people touching the lives of retirees in so many different categories so we can help our listeners reimagine what their retirement can look like.” Jensen cites the example of the financial planner who called because his client bordered on having a cash-flow problem that would have been exacerbated by putting the entire proceeds from the sale of her home into her next home. A reverse mortgage offered “a classic case of having her cake and eating it, too.” Another client, a freelance journalist in her 70s, wanted financial freedom to pursue projects of her choos- ing. Through a reverse mortgage, she acquired a line of credit from the “lazy asset” of her lovely home. “She has freedom in a way that she never had before,” Jensen says. “She can now do a couple of home projects. She is, interestingly, looking at writing an article about the usage of a reverse mortgage for the senior population, and she’s going to write it from the first-person perspective.” Jensen and her husband have four grown children and four grandchildren. All live in Arvada, CO. Together, they hike, ski, cook good meals and find new restaurants. Her favorite dish is “anything on the grill.” “We grill all year long, even in the snow,” she says.
M. Diane McCormick is a writer and editor based in York, PA.
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