Then VP Al Gore supposedly said, "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." Here in San Diego (current low temperatures in the high 40s), residents are very pleased about a new wastewater treatment plant being built south of the border, since SD has suffered beach closures for years due to effluent flowing north. Effluent aside, much of the mortgage talk here is about repurchases and early pay off penalties, as well as how independent mortgage banks (IMBs) have not been retaining servicing but instead have not only been selling everything servicing released to the usual correspondent suspects, but also selling the servicing they had retained during 2020 and 2021 in order to cover their origination costs. The lack of inventory is an issue, of course. Speaking of which, up north, between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe to the east, along Highway 80, 20,000 homes for 50,000 people are in the works, financed by a collection of billionaires. But California is a great agricultural state, and turning ag land into houses will take a lot of work, as well as voter approval. Today’s podcast can be found here, and this week’s is brought to you by nCino, makers of the nCino Mortgage Suite for the modern mortgage lender. nCino Mortgage Suite's three core products (nCino Mortgage, nCino Incentive Compensation, and nCino Mortgage Analytics) unite the people, systems, and stages of the mortgage process. Today’s features an interview with nCino’s Pam Faulkner on a topic that every mortgage lender has to contend with: change management.