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...
Fri, Aug 12 2011, 10:13 AM
(Sorry the
commentary is a little late today. It took me a long time to wade through all
of the investor price-change e-mails from yesterday. So let...
Thu, Aug 11 2011, 11:23 AM
Last
night my wife met me at the front door. She was wearing a sexy negligee. The
only trouble was, she was coming home.
The correct perspective ...
Wed, Aug 10 2011, 9:21 AM
This
unrelated-to-mortgage banking short clip of a marriage proposal will take your
mind off the markets: GoodCatch !
Maybe it will take l...
Tue, Aug 9 2011, 9:03 AM
"There's
no time to stop for gas, we're already late." One has to think about the
warped logic that is behind that statement, just as one has to thi...
Mon, Aug 8 2011, 10:06 AM
What do
Canada, Germany, France and the United Kingdom have in common? Their debt (and
a few other smaller countries) is rated AAA by Standard & Poo...
Fri, Aug 5 2011, 11:55 AM
If you
want a job, should you go to The Great State of Texas? (Unofficial motto:
"So what if it's a little hot?") Maybe: ButItsADryHeat
Think...
Thu, Aug 4 2011, 10:20 AM
RMIC
threw in the proverbial towel Wednesday afternoon. "We wish to inform you that Republic
Mortgage Insurance Company (" RMIC ") will discontinu...
Wed, Aug 3 2011, 10:48 AM
Lots of
folks take vacations during the summer, and many have to ration out their
days-off during the year. How does the amount of vacation you have...
Tue, Aug 2 2011, 10:40 AM
And so
the debt ceiling legislation passes the House of Representatives and heads to
the Senate. So the market's attention turns back to the fact th...
Mon, Aug 1 2011, 10:09 AM
"I
had amnesia once--or maybe twice." One's mental health is nothing to joke
about, and long days can make folks pretty sleepy (just ask any West Co...
Fri, Jul 29 2011, 9:59 AM
"Why do chicken coops have two
doors? Because if they had four doors they'd be sedans."
And thus starts Friday, with very
good rates but a lot o...
Thu, Jul 28 2011, 11:36 AM
Heard on
the NPR radio show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" from Michael Feldman:
"If the US defaults on their debt and our rating is downgraded and the...
Wed, Jul 27 2011, 10:03 AM
A loan
agent sent me a joke yesterday: "What's the difference between the US
government and a subprime borrower? None - they borrow money that they ...
Tue, Jul 26 2011, 10:15 AM
Today
marks the 21st anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities
Act, which guarantees "equal opportunity for people with disabili...
Mon, Jul 25 2011, 11:48 AM
When
somebody begins a sentence with "It would be nice if..." the right
thing to do is to wait politely for the speaker to finish. No project ever g...
Fri, Jul 22 2011, 11:55 AM
Here's a
Planning & Scheduling Algorithm for any company: "Choose two: Good,
Fast, Cheap."
An
apparent consequence of Dodd Frank, MetLife ...
Thu, Jul 21 2011, 11:44 AM
"If
you make a general statement, a Secondary Marketing Manager says, 'Yes, but ...'
while a loan officer says, 'Yes, and ...'"
Sometimes I w...
Wed, Jul 20 2011, 10:41 AM
"If
I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell." So spoke
Civil War General Philip Sheridan, who was the military governor of T...
Tue, Jul 19 2011, 9:36 AM
"What does the mummy do when
he goes to the bookstore? He gets all wrapped up in a good book!" But in
three headlines from last night, a paradigm s...
Mon, Jul 18 2011, 9:26 AM
"Texting
is like intellectually roaming free in a cul-de-sac." Feel free to quote
Ralph Nader on that one.
Five-time
Jeopardy winner Rich Cordr...
Fri, Jul 15 2011, 9:04 AM
Everyone
knows why squirrels swim on their backs. (It's Friday, I couldn't figure out
how to tie that joke in with in with any mortgage related news...
Thu, Jul 14 2011, 9:54 AM
"Help a man when he is in trouble and he
will remember you when he is in trouble again."
The Consumer Finance
Protection Bureau is not in trou...
Wed, Jul 13 2011, 9:33 AM
I am smart enough to
realize that I am not smart enough to know, "Why the focus is more on
the debt ceiling than on actually reducing our deficit?"...
Tue, Jul 12 2011, 11:14 AM
Born in the 1800's in California and
Tennessee, my grandparents are long gone - and I never lived with them. But
over the last 20 years, reports the...
Mon, Jul 11 2011, 11:09 AM
Remember when loan
processors were as fast as the workers in clip #2? (The fish are fun to watch
as well.) HowDoesHeDoThat?
As I write this, ...
Fri, Jul 8 2011, 1:19 PM
[This is the last day for quite some time that I am away from the computer on a daily basis. This is the last guest writer spot, and I very much appre...
Thu, Jul 7 2011, 11:04 AM
[I am away from the computer on a daily basis,
and my access to e-mail is sporadic and not timely. In my place are daily
commentaries from a series ...
Tue, Jul 5 2011, 10:28 AM
[I am away from the computer on a daily
basis, and my access to e-mail is sporadic and not timely. In my place are
daily commentaries from a series ...
Mon, Jul 4 2011, 1:43 PM
On this day in 1776,
the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress. Who
has time to read a darned commentary on mortgages...
Fri, Jul 1 2011, 12:22 PM
[I am away from the computer on a daily basis,
and my access to e-mail is sporadic and not timely. In my place are daily
commentaries from a series ...
Tue, Jun 28 2011, 2:52 PM
[I am away from the computer on a daily
basis, and my access to e-mail is sporadic and not timely. In my place are
daily commentaries from a series ...
Mon, Jun 27 2011, 11:05 AM
[I am away from the computer and my access to e-mail is sporadic and not timely. In my place are daily commentaries from a series of very knowledgeabl...
Fri, Jun 24 2011, 2:31 PM
[I am on vacation, and my access to e-mail is
sporadic and not timely. In my place are daily commentaries from a series of
very knowledgeable mortga...
Thu, Jun 23 2011, 10:13 AM
[I am on vacation, and my access to e-mail is
sporadic and not timely. In my place are daily commentaries from a series of
very knowledgeable mortga...
Wed, Jun 22 2011, 11:39 AM
I ask those of you in the
mortgage industry with me to help broadcast the truth, the reality that has become the new mortgage
industry. Speak out in...
Tue, Jun 21 2011, 11:34 AM
Today we have, in the
Northern Hemisphere, 5 hours and 14 minutes more daylight than the winter solstice
six months ago. For the most part it is s...
Mon, Jun 20 2011, 12:13 PM
How hard is it to
create a new currency in a digital age? DigitalMoney = DigitalThieves
Reader feedback on current industry trends, borrower...
Fri, Jun 17 2011, 11:23 AM
"Mama just hung her head and said,
'Papa was a rolling stone. Wherever he laid his hat was his
home...'"
The U.S. Census Bureau announced that a...
Thu, Jun 16 2011, 9:46 AM
The idea of Father's Day was conceived
slightly more than a century ago, not by Hallmark Card or Weber Grills, but by
Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash...
Wed, Jun 15 2011, 12:46 PM
s California goes,
so goes the nation? If that is still mostly true, here is a shift in housing
demand that may be worth noting: UrbanRentals ...
Tue, Jun 14 2011, 10:01 AM
The parent of Marie
Callender's restaurants (around since 1964), who also owns Perkins
Restaurants & Bakeries, has filed for bankruptcy protection a...
Mon, Jun 13 2011, 9:53 AM
"The evening news is where they begin
with 'Good Evening,' and then proceed to tell you why it isn't." So I
won't say "Good morning."
As Wells Fa...
Fri, Jun 10 2011, 1:07 PM
If someone
"about scares you half to death" twice, what happens? What home
builder economists lower their predictions twice, what happens? HomeBui...
Thu, Jun 9 2011, 10:30 AM
"I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so
sure." But one thing that I am sure of is transparency. Sterne Agee
released prepayment information, impo...
