cjgalbraith@boulderwest.com

One of the things my clients appreciate is a wisdom grounded in common sense. That wisdom tells me no one wants to read a bio accompanied by a photo of a 50-year old Baby Boomer. So here's a photo straight from the formative years. That's an air rifle in front of my face aimed straight at the camera (you can see the no nonsense stance, and sense the steady eye)... and not seen in the background is my grandfathers' sign for his CPA practice (obviously the source of my financial gene).

I had a lot of fun even before I settled into running a residential mortgage company in Boulder, CO. While I was a second lieutenant during the Vietnam era, I spent my weekends protesting the war and marching on Washington. Working 5 long years for one of the Big Eight accounting firms was relieved by raising and breeding show Afghans. The arduous task of going back to school full time to get a B.S. in nursing was actually lightened by working 40 hours a week on the night shift of a locked psychiatric unit.

After graduation and an appropriate amount of time learning the skills of the trade, I started a home health care nursing agency. It was a successful business (steady eye and all that) but wearing a beeper 24 hours a day was not my style. And realizing that I just wanted to be an entrepreneur in a field where I had some natural talent, it wasn't hard to take a mulligan (do-over for those of you who don't golf) when I moved to Boulder in 1985.

Our job here is to make sense of the loan business whether this is your first home purchase or your fifth apartment building (this is great county for investment real estate, by the way). Give us a call. We've got a solid reputation for shooting straight and telling it like it is. Oh, by the way -- that day of the air rifle photo was the last time I was ever seen in a fluffy dress. They just get in your way when you're slumming in the stacks of an antiquarian bookstore, or hiking the ridges of the Colorado Rockies.