For many years, keynote speaker Colette Gray successfully owned and operated a service business catering to the needs of a mainly senior clientele. She saw first-hand how my clients coped with the issues of age and retirement. She also saw how some people she’d assumed were wealthy had lost huge portions their retirement accounts due to market downturns. They’d saved most of their lives to have that money in retirement and for many of them, it was no longer available.

When her own mother experienced a financial crunch she told Colette she’d been thinking about getting a reverse mortgage. Colette was concerned her mother might fall prey to some sort of scam. She decided to research the product herself.  Luckily, she was able to go right to HUD’s Reverse Mortgage Website to get some honest information.

Once she read about reverse mortgages she knew that this type of loan would suit her mother’s needs perfectly. She realized that if you understand how they work, many people could use them to have a better retirement.   The whole process took about six weeks to complete.

Since then she’s helped a lot of people get a better handle on how they would finance their retirement years. “I love the feeling I get from helping my borrowers age in place” she says.