Month: February 2020

Odd times that we’re living in. Here in New Orleans (“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!”) some of the talk is about the Boy Scouts […]

Did you hear about the population in Ireland? It’s Dublin! In the United States over a quarter of the nation’s population lived in just three […]

It is important to keep things in perspective. A loan officer will grouse about a price of a non-QM loan being .250 worse than a […]

Does anyone out there care that credit-card debt rose to a record $930 billion in Q4 2019? (Total mortgage debt hit $9.56 trillion.) How about […]

Do we really have nine more months until the actual election? While you’re answering questions, does someone in your office speak Spanish? Tagalog? Mandarin? Canine? […]

Clients want LOs to be subject matter experts on products and current events. But what do lenders know about their LOs, their originator turnover rate, […]

In 1988, there was only one city in America where the average home price was over six times the annual median income. Today there are […]

The U.S. is divided up into regions. Have you ever noticed that we say, “Out West” or “Back East” – a holdover from centuries ago. […]

The rumor that tomorrow is National Pizza Day is true. In our business there are always plenty of rumors to go around. The latest involves, […]

I can’t predict the future, don’t even know what I’m doing for lunch today, but in October this commentary suggested that with the MOU inked […]