FAST FACTS: AMANDA PIVAR
COMPANY Dominion Lending Centres Estate Mortgages
POSITION Mortgage agent
LOCATION Toronto
“Agents who forgot the basics of our business, which are people and making connections, are probably the ones who struggled [last year]” slog. Have small goals and then grow your goals as you hit each one. Have a savings plan before you go full throttle as a mortgage broker. A lot of people don’t plan ahead, and that’s a big mistake. It does take six months to a year to get going, so those people without a fallback are financially stressed, and when that happens, focusing on the business is difficult to do.
YEARS IN THE INDUSTRY 3.5
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Mortgage specialist at National Bank Financial and home financing advisor at Scotiabank
CMP: What do you get up to in you spare time? AP: I travel a lot, which was another huge draw to this industry. If you talk to any real estate agent, they have probably done a mortgage with me when I’m sitting on the beach or somewhere in Europe. This career is great for that because I never have to put my out-ofoffice message on.
ACCOLADES Won DLC’s Executive Award and was named to CMP ’s 2017 Young Guns list
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