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Bob Barlow, President and Owner of MBA Mortgage, joins the show to share his story of joining the military, getting involved with the DAV, and what MBA Mortgage does to help serve those who served.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Join us now is Bob Barlow.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
He's the president and owner of NBA Mortgage out of Braintree, Massachusetts.
He's an Air Force veteran and DAV member, and joins
us now on the line to talk a little bit
about his company's partnership with the DAV.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Bob, thanks for joining. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, I am glad to be on.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
So starting off here, I want to get to NBA
Mortgage and it's partnership with the DAV. But would you
mind telling us a little bit about your own military
service and your time with the Air Force.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah. Absolutely. I come from a family where my grandfather
was in the military, My dad was in the military,
My Michaele was the whole nine yards. So when it
came to be my time, I felt compelled serve. I

(00:55):
grew up that way sure always you know, UH community service, country,
that kind of that kind of an upbringing. So yep,
might turn I'm in. So if I go in and
you know, I spent a few years they side, you know,

(01:21):
traveling uh and getting to see a lot of the country.
You know, the best parts of the country, you know,
UH Mississippi and UH Oklahoma and UH Western Washington. Yeah,
all the places you want to go. But if I
was still to still a really great experience, and you know,

(01:45):
ten years in and and you really realize that the
people that you're working with is is what it really
becomes all about, you know, more of the mission more
than anything else, about the guys and girls that are

(02:06):
that are with you when you deploy, that are you know,
in the tent and the you know, the proverbial foxhole
next to you. So of course you leave, that kind
of stays with you and in the brotherhood and sister
that we will always share.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
So Bob, tell me a little bit about NBA Mortgage
and how you got involved with the av of Massa Chusetts.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yep. So NBA Mortgages, Well, we're a mortgage company and
it's something that myself and previous partner was started in
two thousand and five because it was always the smartest
thing to you to get into mortgages, right for two
thousand and seven, So we decided that that was a

(02:59):
great time. And I guess because we just started in seven,
we had the you know, uh, the hood spot to
get through two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine.
But anyways, right around when we started in two thousand
and five. My current partner Matt Scott and I we're

(03:24):
doing a presentation. I forget which town, you know, hotel
lobby room, but we were doing one, and Matt meets
Damn Stack, which I think we all know.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, I said, sitting sitting right in our lobby.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
All right, yeah, our former edjectant, but basically our you know,
our d av Our dav guy. So Matt meets Dan.
Dan's doing, uh, a seminar for veterans in the same place.

(04:12):
So he asked Matt he wants to come by and
talk about the A loans and so does that and
that's it. And Matt was like, I want you to
meet the owner, a veteran, and we met and we

(04:34):
started talking about how we used to work together, and
you know, Dan and I get the talking and uh,
he's looking for us to help him out with some
sponsorships with the golf tournament. So we're like, okay, we'll
do the best ken kind of a you know, ten
man shop. And I don't know how much of a

(04:58):
corporate sponsor shipper you could do, but this is what
I can tell you I can do. Dan. We are
a very good group of people of networking and getting
the word out. So how about I do that? And
I am very very good at that, and so was

(05:19):
Matt and our team. You know, we're out there meeting
business partners, we're out there talkable clients, so it was
kind of an easy thing for us to do.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well any Well, Bob, your story really echoes and mirrors
the stories of so many I've heard from. And it's
all a little bit different, obviously, from a lot of
different industries, but the story I consistently hear that everybody
that partnerships with the dav is just very impressed by
the work that they do and the impact that they
have here in Massachusetts. Bob, I really appreciate you coming

(05:54):
on the show today, talking a bit about your partnership,
sharing a bit about your own service, and and looking
forward to this weekend in Castle Island in Boston.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
So, Bob Barlow, thank you so much.