Mon, Oct 24 2011, 11:18 AM
A
song that studies the demographics of the East Coast? "I want to
find myself relaxin' with the other Anglo Saxons." http://biggee...
Sun, Oct 23 2011, 9:46 PM
(Editor's
note: occasionally there is too much news & information to stick with the
usual Monday-Friday commentaries. And thus we have today's. Sorr...
Fri, Oct 21 2011, 11:18 AM
Tomorrow
is college football day. For you college football fans out there: http://www.robchrisman.com/references/a_and_m_letter.pdf .
And yes, ...
Thu, Oct 20 2011, 12:05 PM
Here is a
notable take on Realtors, for better or worse, titled " Five Rules to
Remember When Dealing with Real Estate Agents " .
Have you
comm...
Wed, Oct 19 2011, 10:31 AM
Men have
always wanted a manual for women. (I am sure somehow, that just like the
manuals for cell phones and cameras, we'd flip through and look fo...
Tue, Oct 18 2011, 10:40 AM
"Buy
real estate - they're not making any more of it." Most of the time that is
true, but here is a somewhat interesting 50 seconds of the entire si...
Mon, Oct 17 2011, 10:43 AM
For bank closures on Friday, and I am simplifying
things, in NC the depositors of Blue Ridge Savings Bank were warmly embraced by
Bank of North Ca...
Fri, Oct 14 2011, 10:16 AM
How much
does a media room cost in Arizona? $2.5 million... when it's attached to John
McCain's listed house .
MetLife Mortgage , suddenly th...
Thu, Oct 13 2011, 10:54 AM
What are
political ads like in Texas ?
As was
noted in yesterday's commentary, one of the questions that folks in the
mortgage conference hallw...
Wed, Oct 12 2011, 11:47 AM
Want a very
telling pictorial of the current state of banking?.
The MBA
conference has ended, and it is off to New Mexico for me, and then Se...
Tue, Oct 11 2011, 10:38 AM
Sweet
home, Chicago...Chicago's City Council published an ordinance that would require banks, mortgage servicers and
institutional investors to mai...
Mon, Oct 10 2011, 9:40 AM
At this
week's MBA conference in Chicago I have noticed conference participants doing
their very best to look very busy, even when standing in a lob...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 10:34 AM
Pssst...efha.com
is for sale. It was designed as a retail site, and the sale includes the domain
name and redesigned screenshots. Visit efha.com
fo...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 9:41 AM
roduction
jobs come and go. On one side, Kinecta
Federal Credit Union is continuing to grow its business and is hiring Retail Mortgage Loan Cons...
Wed, Oct 5 2011, 11:35 AM
The
English language has different nouns for the various groups of animals. We call
a bunch of cows a "herd." We call a group of geese a "gaggle," a...
Tue, Oct 4 2011, 11:34 AM
"As
previously announced, Bank of America Home Loans plans to exit the
correspondent mortgage lending channel and focus entirely on retail
distribu...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 11:04 AM
Well, here
we are. The sun managed to come up (so far at least on the East Coast) after
the temporary loan limits weren't extended. On Oct. 1, the s...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 10:36 AM
Baseball
fans will know the answer to this one: What's the difference between a hot dog
at Fenway Park and a hot dog at Yankee Stadium? Answer: You ...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 10:51 AM
With two
business days left in this month, and companies scrambling to fund either high
balance loans or Streamline loans where rates have dropped e...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 11:30 AM
Most of my
friends barely know what a mortgage broker is, yet the president brought up the
term in a speech: "...it is our responsibility to make su...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 11:05 AM
Some
things you just can't make up. Arch West died last week of natural causes at
the age of 97, and when he is buried this weekend, Arch West will ...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 10:27 AM
Have you
ever heard of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council? I must
admit that I hadn't, until it released its latest report which...
Fri, Sep 23 2011, 10:24 AM
Hopefully
failing a breathalyzer test doesn't happen to any mortgage bankers tonight
after Happy Hour.
Folks who
are hedging a pipeline, or wh...
Thu, Sep 22 2011, 10:32 AM
Sometimes
things aren't always what they seem. For example, http://www.wimp.com/sweetride/ .
One would
hope that a major US bank is what it seem...
Wed, Sep 21 2011, 11:06 AM
I handed
the teller at my bank a withdrawal slip for $400.00. I said "May I have
large bills, please." She looked at me and said, "I'm sorry sir, al...
Tue, Sep 20 2011, 10:54 AM
It used to
be that people who walked down the street arguing with nobody there were deemed
"crazy". When cellphones first got overly popular, my mo...
Mon, Sep 19 2011, 11:46 AM
Welcome to
Talk Like a Pirate Day. Of course, 3.14159...% of sailors are Pi Rates.
Yesterday through next Sunday is "National Singles Week", sta...
Fri, Sep 16 2011, 10:40 AM
"I
went for my routine check-up today and everything seemed to be going fine
until he asked me to drop my shorts! Do you think I should change
den...
Thu, Sep 15 2011, 10:57 AM
Welcome to
National Hispanic Heritage Month, which started with a week-long tribute in
1968 under President Lyndon Johnson, but was expanded in 1988...
Wed, Sep 14 2011, 10:57 AM
"A
clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." But at this
point, most believe that it is too late to avoid the problems in the mortga...
Tue, Sep 13 2011, 10:34 AM
Even dumpsters can be turned into homes - but
what about the comps? Is There Room For The Rat?
Rates are great, but no experienced loan
...
Mon, Sep 12 2011, 11:34 AM
Don't
forget that we're one week away from "Talk Like a Pirate Day." Of
course, to err is human; to arr is pirate.
The next
time you're thinking...
Fri, Sep 9 2011, 10:05 AM
[ I am away from the
computer on a daily basis, and will not be returning e-mails until September
10th. In my place are daily commentaries from a se...
Thu, Sep 8 2011, 9:56 AM
Today's contribution comes from...
Don Brown Co-President Secondary Interactive dbrown(at)secondaryinteractive.com www.secondaryinteractive.com
...
Wed, Sep 7 2011, 11:27 AM
[I am away from the computer on a daily
basis, and I cannot respond to e-mails until September 11th. In my place are
daily commentaries from a serie...
Fri, Sep 2 2011, 12:06 PM
[I am away from the computer on a daily basis, and I cannot respond to e-mails until September 11th. In my place are daily commentaries from a series ...
Fri, Sep 2 2011, 12:06 PM
[I am away from the computer on a daily
basis, and I cannot respond to e-mails until September 11th. In my place are
daily commentaries from a serie...
Wed, Aug 31 2011, 9:12 AM
Mortgage
banking and real estate are typically not physically hazardous professions. In
case you're ever tempted to throw down your pen & pencil and...
Tue, Aug 30 2011, 10:44 AM
Realtors
and mortgage professionals know that divorce
can often lead to the formation of a new household. According to the Census
Bureau, the nat...
Mon, Aug 29 2011, 10:32 AM
An IT
person is someone who understands this joke: "The definition of 'Installation
routine': A process employed by many applications to overwrite a...
Fri, Aug 26 2011, 10:50 AM
Don't you
always wonder how much the guys standing at the stoplights take home, tax-free?
It is a little farcical, but: HowMuchTaxFree?
A doc...
Thu, Aug 25 2011, 10:56 AM
Warren
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, who owns about 10% of Wells Fargo, announced that
it is investing $5 billion in Bank of America. $100,000 per s...
Wed, Aug 24 2011, 10:09 AM
Fannie,
Freddie, and the US Government aren't the only entities struggling with debt. The
U.S. Post Office is expected to hit its $15 billion borro...
Tue, Aug 23 2011, 10:39 AM
Who is
Deven Sharma? He is the latest person to quit his job. Ordinarily this wouldn't
be a big deal, but he was the president of Standard & Poor...
Mon, Aug 22 2011, 10:20 AM
No wonder
companies are hiring. The Mortgage Bankers Association raised its forecast
for loan production this year to $1.1 trillion in residential ...
Fri, Aug 19 2011, 10:18 AM
Every
month we hear about existing home sales , with the usual quote from
someone at the NAR. (This time around, Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist,...
Thu, Aug 18 2011, 9:32 AM
Does it
seem more crowded around here than ten years ago? Maybe not in Detroit, or in Kansas, but around the world, the
population is expected to h...
Wed, Aug 17 2011, 9:04 AM
We're in
the middle of baseball season, and here's a non-mortgage video that has people
saying, "No way": BatterUp!
Small banks can still origi...
Tue, Aug 16 2011, 10:52 AM
The
winner of the "pot calling the kettle black" award for this week goes
to U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, who was calling for fiscal responsibility in
Was...
Mon, Aug 15 2011, 10:33 AM
A man
walks into a psychiatrist's office wearing only underwear made of Saran Wrap.
The psychiatrist says, 'Well, I can clearly see your nuts." Anyo...
