Month: August 2018

“How can you make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere?” It seems that 3D-printing is going places. NASA awarded five teams $100,000 in a […]

Is there a place for age or sex discrimination in mortgage banking? Of course not. So the court case earlier this month involving Sacramento’s Summit […]

Politics and mortgage banking continue to overlap. Who is Kevin Stitt? He is, among other things, the owner of Gateway Mortgage Group in Oklahoma. He […]

As the East Coast swelters and Hawaii floods, loan officers I’ve spoken to recently believe the high price end in some markets is starting to […]

Scholars have long pondered if Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was named after my cat Myrtle, or vice versa – the answer is lost in the […]

Lots of peoples like lists and rankings. Sometimes there are awards that go along with them, sometimes not. There won’t be any awards doled out […]

There are definitional differences between PUDs, condos, apartments, and townhomes, including who owns the land. (Based on historical performance of delinquencies, potential liability, and servicing […]

“Rob, I think we’re going to make it.” Thus began a note I received yesterday from the owner of a small retail lender in the […]

Now that we’re more than halfway through the third quarter, how’s it shaping up for lenders? Yes, the industry has reduced its ranks, therefore cutting […]

What can keep interest rates low in the United States? A slow economy. What can cause higher rates? Inflation. To no one’s surprise, U.S. tariffs […]