The REI Agent Podcast

Michael Russell recently appeared on the REI Agent podcast with Mattias Clymer. The episode was entitled “From Crisis to Comeback to Saving Homes and Changing Lives with Michael Russell. Here’s a notable quote:

“In the last five years or so, I’ve been focusing on a nonprofit that I created called Hope4Hardship, which helps people who are facing imminent foreclosure in and around the New England area. It’s become my passion project. It’s something I enjoy doing because it resonates with me very personally because of my own struggles with those kinds of things.

There’s a whole bunch of real estate knowledge around in my head that makes it pretty simple for me to help people request assistance from the very entity that is threatening their housing—the bank. So it’s just pretty simple to me and so it doesn’t take a tremendous amount of effort. I’ve been doing that kind of thing my whole life and so I  figured the best thing I can do with that knowledge is pay it forward to the next man and woman.”

For more, check out the full interview.

Free Life Agents Podcast

Michael Russell recently appeared on the Free Life Agents podcast with Kobe Xin. The episode was entitled “How to Overcome Adversity – Real LIFE Riches to Rags to RICHES with Michael Russell of Hope4Hardship”. Here’s a notable quote:

“The how I got to where I am today is by making all the wrong decisions for the better part of 20 years. And I did that really through a selfish entitlement where I I wanted to be wealthy from a very young age. And I saw this company as an opportunity to become wealthy. And so I I lived in the moment for the better part of 20 years. I lived in the moment. Every dollar I consumed, I spent. I fell into the typical societal American male norms of what was important in life and I pursued those things like they were the most important thing in the world, and I exhausted every possible dollar I could. I didn’t have any idea about macroeconomics or politics or regulations or anything that went on in the real world. I lived in my own little bubble. And I foolishly believed that the money was not just going to keep coming in, but it would come in at an even higher clip, in perpetuity for the rest of my career in my life.”

For more, check out the full interview.

Radio Entrepreneurs Podcast

Michael Russell recently appeared on the Radio Entrepreneurs podcast with Jonathan Freedman of Mage, LLC.  The episode was entitled “Keeping Families in Their Homes” with Michael Russell of Hope4Hardship”. Here’s a notable quote:

“Between 2009 and 2012, I worked for Freddie Mac and we dispersed up, listed and sold more than 1000 foreclosed properties in and around southeastern Massachusetts. I got to witness lockouts where a family is greeted by a sheriff and two movers and a box truck. It’s heartbreaking.”

For more, check out the full interview

Never Lose a Deal Podcast

Michael Russell recently appeared on the Never Lose a Deal podcast with Lorillia Brown-Phillips. The episode was entitled “Real Estate Success after Bankruptcy & Foreclosure with Mike Russell”. Here’s a notable quote:

“By and large, this is, you know, pro bono therapy work trying to help people avoid the same ridiculous mistakes I made. And that’s the fair bargain that I made my life the last eight years has been a road of recovery in so many different ways. And the fair bargain that I’ve made is to give it freely to the next man or woman.”

For more, check out the full interview

Foreclosure, one of the scariest words to any homeowner

Here’s Mike on My Generation, the podcast of South Shore Senior News. My generation is hosted by Steve Dubin of PR Works.

Notable quote from the interview:

“I’ve been in the real estate business since I was 19 years old. I did a lot of work in the early years representing banks who had already foreclosed on properties and were then tasked with marketing and selling those assets. So I got to see at a pretty young age a lot of the strife and pain that people go through when they are effectively escorted out of the homes that they owned before the bank foreclosed on. I was pretty observant to what I witnessed, which was tragic. And then I faced my own struggles.”

For more, check out the full interview.

Here’s Mike on the Financially Intentional podcast with Naseema Elroy

Notable quote from the interview:

“Everyone struggles. What I learned is that your struggle is supposed to be a chapter, not the whole damn story. But we make it the whole damn story and we self-sabotage sometimes and make problems worse.”

For more, check out the full interview.

Here’s Mike on the Go Gaddis Real Estate Radio podcast.

Notable quote from the interview:

If you want bank assistance when you fall behind on your, on your payment responsibilities, they offer retention options. And that can be in the form of a loan modification, where you modify the terms of the note, which are not typically attractive in an environment like this. A lot of these people are sitting on two-three percent mortgages, right? So this option is better than foreclosure but not outstanding. It’s called a partial claim mortgage as long as you’re able to resume your normal payments in about 60 days, they’ll take the arrearage and tack it on to the back of the loan.”

For more, check out the full interview