June 30: AE & LO jobs; primary market Fannie/Freddie conventional conforming changes across lenders & investors
Huh? The year is half over? Didn’t 2017 just start? Time has a way of flying by. Via rocket ship. July starts tomorrow… and we […]
Month: June 2017
June 29: MI, compliance, LO, QI jobs; new products & lenders expanding; housing & the econom
Interviewer: “What drives you?” Candidate: “The bus mostly.” Interviewer: “I mean what motivates you to get out of bed in the morning?” Candidate: “Missing the […]
June 28: Business opportunities, LO jobs; the economy & rates; originator training; Freedom takes a bite out of the Big Apple
Transitional licensing, where a bank LO can move to being a non-depository LO and still can originate? Yup. Contact your rep in Congress to support […]
June 27: AE & LO jobs coast to coast; layoffs & reverse mortgage sale; Nationstar call center move; training in ARMs & HMDA
Worries about Europe’s economies have, in most part, subsided. But rumors swirl regarding The Land of Lincoln. Illinois, it seems, isn’t doing too well financially. […]
June 26: LO & sales jobs; credit union MI rates; bank news: stress tests, M&A, values, underwriting guideline changes, new products
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.” We’re always watching home sales & construction – but it […]
June 24: Notes on Sindeo, wire fraud prevention, the interest rate climate, and builder price incentives Inbox x
Summer is upon those in the residential lending biz, along with everyone in the Northern Hemisphere, with its barbecues, travel, and people watching. With the […]
June 23: AE & LO jobs, LO products, interesting business opportunity; legal & compliance news – servicing enforcement action
Rumors continue to swirl, this time about Orange County’s Americash. Yes, the drop in refi volume is showing, and even if you made it through […]
June 22: LO & AE jobs, personnel moves internal audit service; vendor updates inc. Alight’s capital raise
This week’s Sindeo’s closure reminds lenders of the basic premise: if you didn’t make money in 2016, what makes 2017 any different? Your competitors won’t […]
June 21: Sales jobs, borrower satisfaction survey; Sindeo closes; servicing – CA & per diem interest; CRTs help in secondary but credit risk increasing in primary market
Welcome to the first day of summer. Hey, I don’t where you’re going to be exactly two months from now, but on August 21, besides […]
June 20: LO jobs & LO products; reverse mortgage primer – product attracting forward lenders?
“People who don’t give up attract other people’s attention.” As do people whose humor is stuck in 4th grade – like mine usually is. For […]