{"id":56120,"date":"2017-03-13T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T15:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=56120"},"modified":"2017-03-27T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T21:51:32","slug":"snapshot-wynnewood-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/community\/snapshot-wynnewood-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"OU Jewish Communities Fair Snapshot: Wynnewood, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was 2011, and we had to move from our home.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Raleigh, NC was a great place but was not meeting our religious needs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>While we wanted to avoid a huge community in the New York area, staying on the East Coast was necessary, so I could continue to operate my small law firm in Raleigh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Luckily we found Wynnewood, PA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/fair\/\"><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Find out more about Norfolk at the OU Jewish Communities Fair on April 30&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:14849,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:3355443},&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Georgia, \\&quot;Times New Roman\\&quot;, \\&quot;Bitstream Charter\\&quot;, Times, serif&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:12}\">Find out more about Wynnewood at the OU Jewish Communities Fair on April 30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As part of the larger Jewish Philadelphia area community, it had the necessary infrastructure we needed while being far more affordable than other communities in the Philadelphia area.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We were able to find a house equivalent to our Raleigh home and within our budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I started working on building up a real estate settlement practice in Pennsylvania while still commuting to North Carolina. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We moved in September 2011, and it took some time to obtain my Pennsylvania law license and to start my settlement company.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Within a year, I had my first Pennsylvania clients &#8211; a couple from our Shul were refinancing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>By the end of the year, I had two more clients through connections made through Shul.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The following year, a larger lender who saw my advertisement on the Jewish community listserv started sending me clients and my practice continued to grow due to community connections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fast forward six years.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>My practice here has grown each year steadily, and I was able to close my North Carolina practice.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I receive numerous referrals from two of the Orthodox realtors in the Jewish community, and community Rabbis have helped as well. It has enabled me to give back to the community shuls and be active with local tzedakah organizations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All three of our children have attended Torah Academy since we moved.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Our oldest son is getting ready for High School and can choose between two highly regarded schools in the area.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Wynnewood is our new home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/fair\/fair\/fair\/communities\/\">Check out more Torah communities outside the metropolitan area at our biannual Communities Fair on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1722515512\"><span class=\"aQJ\">April 30<\/span><\/span>!<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 2011, and we had to move from our home.\u00a0 Raleigh, NC was a great place but was not meeting our religious needs.\u00a0 While we wanted to avoid a huge community in the New York area, staying on the East Coast was necessary, so I could continue to operate my small law firm in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133388,"featured_media":56204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","series-communities-snapshot"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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