Oct. 31: Notes on prequals & pre-approvals in a TRID LE world, credit score based on Facebook friends
I walked by a bar the other day with a sign that said, “Our goal is to bring back daytime drinking.” We all need goals […]
Month: October 2015
Oct. 30: Wholesale, retail, call center jobs; innovation in lenders; pending home sales trends; flood insurance update; UG on the block?
Besides the adults taking over Halloween, and the underwriting department duking it out with accounting to see who takes home this year’s department costume prize, […]
Oct. 29: Wholesale & UW jobs vs. BofA & Deutsche layoffs; big week for bank M&A; fee changes & price adjustment trends
Let’s start with something non-mortgage related but that may be of interest to some. Who doesn’t go faster than the posted speed limit on a […]
Oct. 28: Compliance & retail jobs; disaster policy updates; upcoming events; changes in the MI company sector
I head to Ann Arbor today, but 500 miles away is the Gateway Arch in St. Louis – quite a sight on the Mississippi! The […]
Oct. 27: Retail jobs in the West; 30-year old buys home – Millennial spokesperson asks, “Can you stop talking about us now?”
When was the last time anyone used the term “elderly”? I think the industry dropped the term when someone realized baby boomers didn’t like thinking […]
Oct. 26: MI job & free Realtor/borrower service; upcoming events; continuing Agency changes that move the markets
Don’t ask me how we arrived at the last week of October already, but here we are barreling toward Halloween and changing the clocks Sunday […]
Oct. 24: Notes on the broker model, empowering LOs; does the CFPB scope include banks with less than $10 billion in assets? You bet!
To start things off with a chuckle, since the rest isn’t exactly a barrel of laughs, earlier this week Jay Leno told the mortgage bankers, […]
Oct. 23: Ops job; FHA program status, evolution, updates, and lender changes; a decent joke on a Friday
“We developed the most thorough online mortgage assessment, designed to eliminate human error, save time, and get you the best possible loan closing plan.” Plenty […]
Oct. 22: Appraisal & warehouse options; events of note; flood of Fannie & Freddie changes in the primary & secondary markets
If anyone out there wants to be buy a big office building, Fannie has one: the company is preparing to move to its new HQ […]
Oct. 21: Retail, wholesale, IT, compliance jobs; the continued cost of compliance & its impact on borrowers
As the San Diego MBA conference wraps up, one is reminded that many lenders are having fine years and some can’t believe their good fortune. […]