Brickyard Realty

Ida Abelson obtained a real estate sales agent's license in 1981 and was invited to join Coldwell Banker's Montclair/Piedmont office. After an extremely successful sales career, she was approached by a mortgage banking company to head up their national mortgage origination department. In the mid-1980's she was part of a consulting staff dealing with the Resolution Trust Corporation. As head of their mortgage banking division, she was responsible for bringing the mortgage division of failing Savings & Loans back to health by designing new loan programs, selling off their real estate owned inventory.