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Ginnie, Freedom, and loanDepot; Digital Trends Report; Rule 4210 Delayed Again

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by Rob Chrisman on January 31 2019, 8:18 AM

Rumors of a cancelled President’s Club award event in a mortgage division of a bank in the Northwest have tongues wagging about acquisition rumors by a larger bank. Certainly 2018 was a year filled with rumors, and 2019 is beginning the same way...
Profitability Products; Events, Free Webinars, and Training Coming up Soon

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by Rob Chrisman on January 30 2019, 8:10 AM

Here’s something for senior management to do some time. Casually ask someone under the age of 30, who is not in the business, like your server at The Olive Garden, how or where they would obtain a home loan. It is very telling, especially if you’re...
Sales Jobs; Cap Mkts; Bank Competitive Pressures; Good Flood Insurance News?

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by Rob Chrisman on January 29 2019, 8:01 AM

Think you have trouble finding good talent in the mortgage biz? The L.A. Times writes that President Trump signed an order to hire 15,000 new border agents two years ago and Customs and Border Protection paid $60.7 million to the consulting firm Accenture...
Sales and Underwriting Products; Conventional Conforming Lender and Investor Changes

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by Rob Chrisman on January 28 2019, 8:05 AM

Another 5-day work week. Sigh. To some it’ll seem “longer than a CVS receipt.” To others it will fly by. What is also flying is the market in Boise, Idaho. Idaho is now the fastest growing state in the nation, percentage-wise, and with...
Capital Markets, Condo Products; LO Turnover Study; Conv. Conforming Changes

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by Rob Chrisman on January 25 2019, 7:58 AM

For me last week included Orange County and Connecticut, this week Memphis and So Cal, and next week Atlanta. I find it curious when a flight attendant says, “We’ve begun our initial descent into (wherever).” Why initial? I hope there...
Automation Products; Misc. Vendor News; Political News Impacting Rates

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by Rob Chrisman on January 24 2019, 8:15 AM

I think that keeping my personal information and passwords on my yellow note pad is safer than putting it “in the cloud.” More than 24 million financial and banking documents related to mortgages and other consumer loans were leaked online...
Sales Products and Webinars; Freedom Joins FHA/VA Pricing Competition

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by Rob Chrisman on January 23 2019, 8:41 AM

The wholesale pricing wars continue, the latest salvo from Freedom Mortgage in the FHA & VA stadium (see below). Fans of FHA lending, who tend to bristle at the suggestion that the program is “subprime redux,” pay careful attention to...
Condo, Sales, and Business Intelligence Products; Freddie and Fannie Program Changes

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by Rob Chrisman on January 18 2019, 7:59 AM

For the first time in history, the six biggest banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — made $100 billion in profit in a year. Yowzah! There’s a lot going on out there, and Ben...
Subservicer, Non-Agency Products; World Debt Increasing; Primer on "Duration" and Mortgage Pricing

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by Rob Chrisman on January 17 2019, 8:26 AM

Time has a way of slipping by. For example, I’ve really been meaning to transfer a bunch of Lotus 1-2-3 and Quattro Pro spreadsheets I have off of some floppy disks and onto my laptop but never seem to get around to it. Speaking of time passing...
Manufactured Home and Capital Markets Products; Radian Expands; Big Banks' Mortgage Volumes

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by Rob Chrisman on January 16 2019, 8:25 AM

As pricing battles rage in the wholesale channel, there has been plenty of news of layoffs in residential lending over the last six months industry-wide, due to reasons like becoming more efficient, lower volumes, or fewer delinquencies, the most recent...
LO Resources; CRM, PR, and Sales Products; January Training

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by Rob Chrisman on January 15 2019, 8:13 AM

Are rates too high given where the U.S. economy is? Traders, investors, and the Fed think they’re where they need to be, given the information we have. Others believe they will head lower this year due to a slowing economy. The release of bank big...
Secondary Marketing; Digital and Property Inspection Products; Radian's RADAR Rate Product

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by Rob Chrisman on January 14 2019, 8:06 AM

My cat Myrtle has never flown coach. She doesn’t have the same complaint I have of airline workers who don’t seem to realize that “full” means full. For some reason they’ve created “completely full,” “extremely...
Marketing, Ops Jobs; Non-QM Products; Ginnie's Bright Resigns

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by Rob Chrisman on January 10 2019, 8:35 AM

Let’s see… How much does it cost you to produce a residential loan? Pizza for the shippers, underwriter bonuses, copy paper, HP-12C batteries – it all adds up, and pretty soon you’re over $8 grand a loan! Boston Consulting Group...
Appraisal Products; Events This Week; New Buydown, Second Look Products

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by Rob Chrisman on January 09 2019, 8:26 AM

The co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, Herb Kelleher, died last week. I mention this because I read his obituary and the article noted his advice to employees in 2014 when they were upset by efforts to reduce costs and otherwise evolve....
Database, Section 184 Products; Lennar/Eagle Lawsuit; Mergers Continue Nationwide

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by Rob Chrisman on January 08 2019, 8:21 AM

In HELOC news, “traditional” lenders know that online lender Prosper plans to offer home equity lines of credit this year. The threats to real estate agents’ business models also just keep coming. Besides Clever, Ribbon Home, Zillow...

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