Camille Farnie

Camille Farnie is a mortgage broker with Motivation Mortgage. She’s also a dedicated volunteer with Saturday Sharing, a group that visits two areas of Charlotte near the men’s and women’s shelters twice a month with food, toiletries and other essentials for people experiencing homelessness. In her first podcast appearance, Camille tells host Jeff Hamm about the group’s biggest fundraiser of the year, which stocks supplies for the months ahead, including winter coats, boots and shoes.

📅 Saturday Sharing Annual Fundraiser
Saturday, November 7, 3–6 PM, at Rowdy Acres Farmstead, off Gilead Road
Live music, hayrides, horses and Highland cows, a barbecue dinner with all the fixin’s, raffle prizes and a silent auction.
Tickets: adults $25, kids 8–17 $10, under 8 free.
Sponsorships run from $125 to $1,000, and silent auction donations are welcome. To sponsor or donate, use Cash App or Zelle to [CONFIRM: recipient name — sounded like “Feather Projects”], or contact Camille at [CONFIRM: phone number].

Camille also shares what she’s seeing in the Charlotte and Lake Norman mortgage market. In today’s buyer’s market, many buyers are getting seller concessions. She explains a bridge loan that lets you buy before you sell while qualifying for only one mortgage, and how DSCR loans work for investors with short- or long-term rentals. She also covers what working with a broker who has access to about 45 lenders means for borrowers.

Follow Camille on Instagram!

https://www.instagram.com/bowchickaloangirlwow/

About the host:

Jeff Hamm is the visionary behind The Best of LKN – a media platform that has been spotlighting and promoting the most adored local small businesses and nonprofits in the Lake Norman area since 2020.

Jeff’s also an expert Lake Norman real estate broker who brings deep expertise in premium neighborhoods and strong ties to the region’s top builders, designers, and service providers.

Learn more:

Lake Norman, North Carolina
www.LKNreal.com

Banner Elk, North Carolina
www.BannerElkLiving.com

Jeff Hamm is a North Carolina real estate broker serving two of the state’s most sought-after markets: Lake Norman and the greater High Country region. He specializes in luxury and second-home property, from Lake Norman’s waterfront and golf communities to High Country communities including The Lodges at Eagles Nest, Elk River Club, Farm at Banner Elk, Diamond Creek, Blue Ridge Mountain Club, and Echota. His focus is buyer representation, where his relationships with each region’s top listing brokers, builders, and designers give his clients a measurable edge.

Jeff is also the founder and host of two local media platforms, The Best of LKN and Banner Elk Living. Each includes a podcast and newsletter that spotlights the area’s most admired small businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs. He publishes the annual Lake Norman Visitors Guide and Banner Elk Guide, produces regular market reports for both regions, and hosts The Best of Lake Norman Business Network.