Jim Blythe

Award-Winning Certified Senior Advisor, Radio Broadcaster, Speaker, Author, Award-Winning Reverse Mortgage Expert, Veterans' Advocate

James Edward Blythe

James Edward Blythe

(Please call me Jim)

I have over 40 years in real estate and realty finance. For the last ten years I have been helping seniors as a Certified Senior Advisor and one of my tools is the reverse mortgage program.

I enjoy volunteering with Heroes House TX, a non-profit providing apartment homes for homeless veterans, and am a radio talk show host Saturday mornings for Veterans Impact Show from 9:30-10:30am on Facebook Live talking about veterans financial and housing issues.

Biographic Details

Career

Education

Graduate University Of Texas at Austin 1973: Bachelor of Arts, Finance

Navy Combat Veteran

Three tours Vietnam with VA-163 and HC-1 on aircraft carriers USS Oriskany and USS Hancock 1967-69 – Armed Forces Radio on the Oriskany as Big Jim Edwards 1967-68

Real Estate

  • Texas Real Estate Broker 1973 – 2010 (did not renew)
  • Certified Real Estate Instructor since 1994
  • Author: “Commercial Side of Town”  newspaper column, The Real Estate News
  • Mortgage Loan Officer since 1994

I am glad to help anytime. Please do not hesitate to call, text, or email me.

Jim Blythe

Realty Finance

Talk Show Host Since 2015

  • Veterans Impact Show, Saturdays LIVE on Facebook at 9:30am
  • Alliance 4 The Brave
  • Real Estate Mortgage Hour: KRLD,  KLIF, KVCE, now KBDT in Dallas, Texas

Teacher

Texas Youth Commission half-way house for boys, Dallas, TX, 1997 – 2014

Author

  • “Where is the Gold in the Golden Years” articles for MatureVisions Magazine, 2011 – 2013
  • Planning to Change, © 2011, 2014
  • Challenges of Change, © 2017 (available in paperback and on Kindle).
  • “Commercial Side of Town”  newspaper column, The Real Estate News

Awards

  • Senior Spirit Award,  31Aug15 Conference in San Diego
  • First AWESOME Award Winner from AAG, 21Sept15

Interests

Announcer

Announcer of half-time shows while at Bryan Adams High School ’63-’65 and Southern Methodist University road games ’65 – ’66

Volunteer

  • Board Member for Heroes House TX (Jan 2015 – Jan 2021)
  • President of Volunteers for Bank of Texas (Jan 2008 – Jan 2009)

Student

Dallas Theological Seminary, 2013 to 2015 pursuing a Masters in Christian Leadership

Testimony

Watch Jim’s testimony from the Full Gospel Businessmen’s luncheon, November 2019