Adalberto Jaimes offers his clients personalized financial planning. Like private bankers and wealth managers, he helps people set their financial priorities and goals. He picks up the phone to negotiate deals and helps them take care of the paperwork.
Instead of working in a sleek Midtown bank, however, Jaimes’ office is a cubicle in the back of the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation in Washington Heights, where people can get services ranging from legal representation in eviction cases to asthma management. Jaimes, a native of Colombia, helps clients facing arrears in their rent, mountains of credit card debt, and credit scores that prevent them from renting apartments or getting jobs.
His services are free to clients. Jaimes is employed by Neighborhood Trust, a nonprofit that provides financial advice to low-income New Yorkers.
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