Dan Kelly has been a licensed real estate broker in California for 23 years specializing in mortgage financing and real estate sales. In addition, has been certified as a Level I Trustee and he currently holds a nationwide mortgage license and . Mr. Kelly’s career in real estate financing began over 30 years ago.
In 1997, Mr. Kelly established a lending company, Franklin Capital. Later the company was incorporated as FC Loan, Inc., which currently consists of two divisions, Silver Lining Realty and First Loss Guarantee.
Silver Lining Realty was started in 2007 by Mr. Kelly and his wife, Laurie Kelly. The two designed a program to assist seniors in transitioning from their home to an assisted living facility. This unique offering was designed to cover the financial gap for individuals with home equity, but with very little cash to cover the deposits and move-in costs for the transition to an assisted living facility.
Approximately seven years ago, Silver Lining Realty shifted its focus to build and manage a nationwide network agents nationwide for the sales of HECM REOs. To date, the Silver Lining Realty Network has coordinated the successful closing of nearly 10,000 HECM reverse mortgage REOs and short sales.
Mr. Kelly currently runs an asset management company as well as First Loss Guarantee which partners with investors to lower appraisal based claims losses for the reverse industry.