Originator Signs With Buffalo Bills

Joe Donnelly works at MortgageIT as loan consultant

January 26, 2005

By PAULA PARISOT

But, when the agent called right back to say he wasn’t kidding, that the Bills wanted to sign him to the roster, Donnelly said only then did he believe it.

Donnelly has no plans to give up his newfound career in the mortgage business that he enjoys so much.

“I’m still going to work at MortgageIT here in Rochester,” Donnelly said of his mortgage loan consultant position. “I’m so new I don’t even have my business cards yet, I just give out my cell number. Being a hometown kid is good for the publicity of the business and it’s a good start to use for my client list.”

“Football is a great opportunity but football is short-lived,” Donnelly explained of his decision to stay at MortgageIT, “and Buffalo is only an hour away from my hometown. After football, you still need something to pay the bills.”

“Football is something I love, something I enjoy,” he added, “but you never know when it will be over.”

NY-based MortgageIT says it offers a full spectrum of lending programs and closes more than $5 billion annually as an online lender and with 33 retail branches and wholesale lending offices nationwide.