Nicole Reed - Mortgage Loan Originator - NMLS ID 1549405

12/26/2024

I hope everyone had a fun and love-filled holiday🔔 💝 🍾 ! Whether you're taking down your 🎄tree🎄 immediately or plan to get it down sometime in January, check online in your area for tree recycling locations! For my Kitsap county folks, use the link in this post. The link also has a "Holiday Waste Guide" and locations where your burned out, old string lights can be recycled (NOT in your regular trash!). ♻

If you're local and can't get out and about to drop things off, reach out to me and I'll help you get everything to where it belongs with our truck!

It's easy to recycle your unflocked Christmas tree or holiday lights!

04/18/2024

You do NOT want to miss this. Trauma of Money is hosting a free workshop to introduce the concept of Financial Shame and identify the ways that Systemic, Generational, Societal, Individual, and Relational Shame can show up in our relationships with and emotions/attitudes towards money.

This is a good little amuse bouche for the TOM certification that I am working through right now and LET ME TELL YOU - that s**t is transformational. And hard. It is definitely hard, but any real personal growth usually is.

Join us for a free workshop where we'll tackle financial shame head-on and learn how to identify and disrupt it together!

04/16/2024

PROUD to announce that I've recently joined the board for Kitsap Pride and I'm so excited to dive into this team and organization! I have been looking for a way to channel my energy and free time into our community and I can't wait to help celebrate, support, and unite the LGBTQIA2S+ community in Kitsap and beyond.

Today for Kitsap Great Give, please consider donating to the Kitsap Pride Organization to help us reach our goal of $6,000, which is $1 for each person we are anticipating having at the Kitsap Pride event on July 20th (save the date, yall!).

Also, if you want to get involved with any of our events this summer, send me a message!

❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🖤🩶🤍🤎

Join us for Kitsap Pride 2024, Saturday, July 20 at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds.Your donation helps us continue our year-round community efforts and helps us ensure our festival is free for area LGBTQ+ families and youth.Kitsap Pride produces the premier LGBTQ+ Pride...

03/30/2024

Tomorrow I’m joining the effervescent Megan Moy for this open house from 12-2 😍 While you’re out and about enjoying the gorgeous weather, swing by and say hi!

03/23/2024

✨Finalists✨
Thank you for your support!!

Thank you to everyone who voted!! The top three finalists of each category have been announced and with your support, Uptown Mortgage is a finalist in the mortgage lender category.

We are forever grateful for our clients and friends - thank you for trusting Uptown Mortgage as your local mortgage broker for over 24 years! Here's to 24 more 💕

03/18/2024

♻️♻️♻️Happy Global Recycling Day!♻️♻️♻️

First step of spring cleaning - I'm cleaning out my closet! (*queue Eminem playing in my brain, because, ADHD🙃)

Did you know you can recycle your old clothes that aren't in good enough shape to donate? In the past, I've taken my bags of to-be-recycled clothing and textiles to the nearest H&M and they give a 15% off coupon in return.

This year I am going to use Madewell's program linked below. You print a mailing label (no-cost!) and fill a box with any brand of clothing, handbags, shoes, and accessories to be recycled! Then, for each pair of jeans that are in the mix, Madewell sends you a $20 off coupon for a new pair.

Both companies sort the clothing, so it can be donatable condition, too - if the clothing is wearable, it is resold (Madewell uses threadUP) but if it's not, it is turned into other things, like cleaning cloths, or shredded and turned into insulation

Madewell

03/12/2024

📚 📖 March is National Reading Month!📖 📚

What are you reading right now? Where is your book taking you?!

03/07/2024

VOTING CLOSES TOMORROW!!!! Click here and search "MORTGAGE" and vote for Uptown Mortgage - NMLS 167768 for the Best of Mile High 2024 award!!

https://app.bestofmilehigh.com/vote/choosegroup

📣 📣 📣 Voting opened yesterday and goes through March 8th for the Best of Mile High Awards and we are on the ballot for the Mortgage Lender Category! If you live in Denver or the surrounding areas, we'd love your support. 🏘️ ❤️ 🏡

Click the link here to cast your vote! https://brev.is/bk2t4

03/07/2024

Every year, on the Thursday of National Consumer Protection Week, the SSA OIG celebrates National Slam the Scam Day to bring awareness to the malicious and deceptive ways that scammers use to catch victims off-guard. Check out www.ssa.gov/scam for a ton of helpful and important information like these four basic signs of a scam:

1. Scammers pretend to be from an agency or organization you know to gain your trust.
2. Scammers say there is a problem or a prize.
3. Scammers pressure you to act immediately.
4. Scammers tell you to pay in a specific way.

Protect Yourself from Social Security Scams

03/01/2024

🌟💥 Exciting news! 💥🌟

Next week I start the Trauma of Money Professional online certification course! Expanding financial literacy is the pinnacle of my “why” when it comes to being in the mortgage industry, and I have been 👀eying👀 this course for a couple of years now.

It goes beyond “I’m just bad with money.” Financial literacy isn't just about budgets, numbers, and balancing checkbooks (ha, anyone still balancing an actual checkbook?!?). It's about understanding the emotional and psychological relationship we have with money, and then understanding our choices and feeling empowered by them. Integral to exploring our individual financial literacy is recognizing the financial trauma that most of us have experienced at some point, whether it be individual, generational, societal, or systemic. Financial trauma is often overlooked and widely misunderstood, yet it deeply impacts the money beliefs and behaviors of individuals, communities, and our world.

I’m looking forward to the TOM course to open these conversations and help me challenge my own embedded beliefs. If you’re interested in following along, let me know! I am going to fully immerse myself in this course, so I plan to write and reflect a lot. I would love to keep the conversation going here and I could share some reflections after each session.

If you're interested in learning more about the Trauma of Money courses - check it out below. There is the professional pathway, that I'm taking, to become certified to use the TOM methods within your own work (great for financial advisors, therapists, counsellors, non-profits, etc) or there is a personal path if you are interested in healing your own relationship with money.

www.thetraumaofmoney.com

An online program that heals that heals psychological traumas to create financial safety and well-being.

02/27/2024

📣 📣 📣 Voting opened yesterday and goes through March 8th for the Best of Mile High Awards and we are on the ballot for the Mortgage Lender Category! If you live in Denver or the surrounding areas, we'd love your support. 🏘️ ❤️ 🏡

Click the link here to cast your vote! https://brev.is/mqKJj

02/02/2024

Happy Groundhog Day and MANY MANY thanks to Phil for avoiding his shadow (for the first time since 2020!) so we can all hold on to hope for an early spring!! 🌸 🌼 🌺 🌻 🌷