Mar. 31: Servicing & credit officer jobs; companies expanding; bank failure stats improving; banks easing credit?
“If you work hard and go the extra mile to provide for your family…I will take that extra income and give it to those who […]
Month: March 2016
Mar. 30: Sales & sales mgt. jobs; small balance commercial webinar; the cost of TRID from STRATMOR & its impact on appraisers
Lenders across the nation are switching to potlucks at the end of the month instead of catered lunches. Why? A new survey of mortgage lenders […]
Mar. 29: Retail jobs & lender expansion; Redwood Trust, Prosper news; Ohio’s take on minimum wage for sales personnel; CFPB webinar on TRID
Sweden, with its population of about 9.6 million about the same as Michigan, just adopted a law limiting mortgage loans to 105 years. Our 30-year […]
Mar. 28: IT, analyst, retail jobs; HELOCs; immigration, labor, lot availability, & other trends impacting builders
“Autocorrect has become my own worst enema.” (I know… what a way to start off the week.) Banks and non-bank mortgage companies aren’t enemies, but […]
Mar. 26: Note on a False Claims Resource Center, Cyber Challenge FDIC site; plenty of blame to go around for the housing crisis
“It’s not ‘if’ but ‘when’,” right? These stats make me think about changing my “Passwerd123!” password. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), there […]
Mar. 25: Retail jobs & VA Boot Camp; ARM update; TRID & construction lending; primer on negative interest rates
The legal morass that residential lending finds itself in continues. The latest comes from the ghost of Lehman Brothers continuing to haunt small institutions around […]
Mar. 24: Retail jobs & CS layoffs; trends in private mortgage insurance; disaster policy updates; why borrower early payoffs matter
Recovery from the housing crisis has been different in almost every community throughout the U.S. Some places have fully recovered, while others continue to struggle. […]
Mar. 23: Ops, retail, & survey opportunities; Titan acquired; PHH rumors set straight; trended credit data gains momentum
“Did you hear about the young lady who was addicted to line dancing? They put her in a two-step program.” CrossCountry Mortgage, Inc. is […]
Mar. 22: Sales & sales management jobs; FHA trends; bank M&A; LO comp shifting away from volume?
My heartfelt sympathies go out to Tyler Sherman and the rest of Denver’s Motivity clan who lost Todd Sherman over the weekend. Everyone is sorry […]
Mar. 21: Technical job opportunity; training & surveys coming up fast; the impact of TRID debated within the industry
Research by RealtyTrac finds the percentage of homes that were bought and sold within 12 months (i.e. flipped) soared to 5.5% of all homes, reaching […]