Real Estate Investor March 2022 | Page 9

ANDREA TUCKER this in real time as a proof of concept .”
When it came to MortgageMe , Andrea says that one of the biggest challenges was getting the big banking institutions to accept some process changes . “ Nothing is smooth sailing when you ’ re building a new digital platform that interfaces with the banking sector . Fortunately we were able to convince the banks that they needed to take a more customer centric approach and we had developed the
" The objective was to empower prospective homebuyers to deal directly with the banks through a simple and streamlined online platform ." technology to help them achieve this . By using back end data that already exists on applicants , MortgageMe is able to populate some of the digital applications that the client is able to electronically sign and submit to all the banks in a singular instance .”
As a female entrepreneur Andrea is proud to be an inspiration to her children and other women looking to run businesses . “ Although there are many successful women in Real Estate , behind the scenes the whole industry is driven by the IT sector which is still predominantly a male environment . However , I never felt that my gender was a barrier to my success and I hope I can play
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