About
Bradley Pounds
A licensed Texas real estate broker of twenty-four years, and a licensed mortgage loan originator. He is a sixth-generation Texan who grew up poor in East Texas, and he has done exactly one job his whole working life.
“It's the only real job I've ever had.”
Licensed and verifiable
TX Real Estate Broker #9015852·MLO NMLS #2731896·Sponsored by Rapid Mortgage LLC, NMLS #2425173
Where he came from
“I grew up in East Texas. A poor kid and a poor town. Made my way to University of Texas. And helping first time homebuyers is the only thing I've ever done.”
He co-owns Watters International Realty and has teams working across Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, San Antonio and Killeen. He has worked the top of the market — Grammy winners, a country music entertainer of the year, houses at three million dollars. He is unusually blunt about which part of it he kept.
Why a broker went and got a mortgage licence
“I also hold a mortgage loan officer license. Is it because I think I'm going to be able to pick up a lot of mortgage business? No, it's because I want to have these conversations with you about the numbers and the program requirements, and I want to do that legally.”
It is a small point that explains most of the rest. Without the mortgage licence he could not legally walk a buyer through a payment estimate or a specific programme, which is the only conversation actually worth having.
“I'm not a lawyer or a magician, but I am an expert in this field.”
What he is actually annoyed about
Follow the money
“There are a lot of people out there who don't make as much money when you do utilize the first time home buyer programs. Follow the money every time.”
“It's a sin that nobody's ever told you about this.”
He walks through all of it on the free class
Forty-five minutes, live, and you can ask which programs apply to a situation like yours.