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Rebecca W. Bass
Branch Manager


Rebecca W. Bass- Your Mortgage Planning Professional
Rebecca W. Bass has a passion for consulting with her clients to fit the appropriate financing vehicle to their financial and investment strategies. "With more than 350 ways to finance the purchase of a new primary residence, second home, or investment property, my challenge is to match the client's needs with the best financing solution," she said. "It is exciting to be in the business of making people's dreams come true."

Rebecca started her career as a Wall Street attorney and has over 20 years experience in negotiating business and financial transactions. Over one-third of her professional life has been spent in financial services. In addition, she has served as a corporate executive with such companies as GE, Lexis-Nexis, and Motorola. Rebecca was the CEO of Galileo Development Systems. She sold this early stage software company in 2001.

Rebecca graduated from Bryn Mawr College, Rutgers University School of Law, and Harvard Business School's International Senior Management Program. In recognition of her professional achievements, she was named Outstanding Mentor of the Year and was a finalist for the Woman of the Year in Technology Award. In addition, she was selected by Business-to-Business Magazine as one of the outstanding businesswomen of Atlanta.

Rebecca speaks French and Spanish and welcomes the opportunity to assist international clients with their acquisition of residential property. Her favorite activities include travel (international and domestic), gourmet cooking, and competing with her dog for advanced obedience and agility titles. Rebecca divides her time between her homes in Beaufort, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia.


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Sunshine Mortgage is a full service mortgage bank headquartered in Atlanta, GA and serving clients throughout the Southeast. Founded in 1981, Sunshine Mortgage is one of the largest privately-held mortgage banks in the region. Sunshine Mortgage is one of the Southeast’s fastest-growing and imaginative mortgage lenders. The firm has built a team of the industry’s most talented and experienced mortgage professionals whose common goal is to provide clients with the finest array of financing products and best service the market has to offer. Sunshine Mortgage proudly offers mortgages to fit the needs of nearly any borrower – whether for the purchase or refinance of a primary residence, second home, or investment property. 

Rebecca W. Bass  - Branch Manager, Sunshine Mortgage

 


Sunshine Mortgage is able to access the money market at extremely competitive rates. In addition, we are in a position to offer financing programs that lead the market in innovation. For example, we offer a 100 percent financing mortgage with NO PMI and several families of attractive interest-only (LIBOR) programs to qualified borrowers.

Mortgage manager's life is busy but happy

From an early morning downtown merchants association meeting, and lunchtime Sea Island Rotary Club to dinner at the Golden Corral for a Beaufort Kennel Club meeting, Bass makes her presence in Beaufort known.

Behind the subtle guise of looking for a new assistant, she presents herself in front of hundreds of people at the different clubs throughout the day.

Rebecca W. Bass- Your Mortgage Planning Professional

"Hi, I'm Rebecca Bass, branch manger of Sunshine Mortgage Corporation here in Beaufort," Bass repeats to the clubs' members. "I'm looking for a mortgage assistant: Someone with excellent phone skills, computer skills and a good sense of humor under stress."

After more than 20 years of transatlantic business trips as an attorney and business executive, Bass, 54, settled in Beaufort with her husband of 28 years, Frank Vandegrift, to live a simpler life.

"It's a choice to be happy," Bass says.

And although her life might be slightly less chaotic than it used to be, by most standards, it's full.

Bass is responsible for starting up the Beaufort branch of Sunshine Mortgage, a full-service mortgage bank headquartered in Atlanta.

With more than 350 ways to finance the purchase of a new primary residence, second home or investment property, Bass says, her job is to match a client's needs with the best financing solution.

In a booming real estate market, that translates to having barely enough time to eat lunch between spending the day talking to clients on the phone to break good, or bad, news, crunching numbers on scraps of paper, meeting with a technology guy about connecting to the main network, faxing paperwork, entering data into a pocket PC and driving in to meet a client who is closing a deal on a house just before meeting with a new client to go over initial paperwork.

"It's been nice having the office to myself, but I'm ready to have someone help me," she says of her mortgage assistant quest.

A few weeks ago, her former assistant threw in the towel to work somewhere else.

Sunrise

As the dawn creeps through the window, Bass rolls over to shut off her Doberman alarm clock.

She wakes to remember her husband is away on a business trip.

It's 6 a.m.: Time to get up out of bed and take CoCo Chienel, her rescued purebred Doberman, and Marigot, her rescued papillon mix, for a long walk on the beach behind her Harbor Island home.

"The sun rises in the east from the ocean; it's beautiful," she gloats leaning over a cup of freshly brewed Firehouse coffee before a merchants association meeting at the coffeehouse. "It's how we start every morning."

Fourteen hours after her morning walk with the dogs, Bass hasn't been back home.

She is sitting in Golden Corral's meeting room, watching a video projection on closed, white shutters about a dog show superintendent company during a weekly Beaufort Kennel Club meeting.

She is seemingly fascinated by the video, having competed with her Doberman for several advanced obedience and agility titles.

Bass makes her announcement about looking for an assistant and updates members on the club's new Web site, created by her during late nights after work.

Her designer silk scarf is still in place, tucked into her black pant suit, and her pinkish red lipstick and hair have been touched up in her car before the meeting.

At 9:30 p.m., she cuts out early.

"I think it's time to go home," she whispers.


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Rebecca, her husband, and her dogs.

 


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