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If I had a dollar for every time someone called me a boring nerd, I'd have a mean daily income of $5.64 with a standard deviation of $1.25. Turning “boring” into “interesting” is something to be proud of. How about a hand-held miniature chainsaw or a shopping cart with a magnifying glass attached for reading labels? For loan originators, new and old, who think creativity has vanished from residential lending, maybe they should focus on the basics. This eBook has been recommended to me: “The Ultimate Borrower Communications Strategy for Mortgage Lenders.” I recently received this note from a successful loan officer. “Rob, my commissions in 2020 and 2021 were over $500k each year. In 2022 they dropped about 50 percent to about $250k. 2023 promises to be even lower, and I’ll be lucky to make $200k. Are you seeing this everywhere?” Yes, I am. But keep things in perspective. In the U.S., and certainly in the world, $200k
In Boston, “wicked pissa smart” is a compliment. I’ll argue that success in lending isn’t based on trying to predict where interest rates are going, since many predictions are a coin toss, but instead on lots of smarts, hard work, and building a business. Sometimes the subject comes up, “My lender ‘owns’ Agency tickets. Are they worth anything?” Yes, there is a dollar value, and STRATMOR’s current blog is titled, “Doing Business with the Agencies: The Golden Ticket?” Certainly the Agencies, namely Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, were in the news yesterday. Yes, the loan level price adjustments based on DTI have been rescinded. Now all those borrowers can rush out and buy… uh, well, check back in several years while the inventory of houses for sale picks up. Even if rates were 0 percent, if there are no houses to buy, good luck. And after the good news had spread, those who actually read the announcement not
Wanna track your credit score minute by minute, regardless of whether you speak English, Spanish, whatever? I have no idea why any sane person would want to do that, but SoFi will do it for you. More importantly, the number of people in the United States who spoke a language other than English at home has nearly tripled from 23.1 million (about 1 in 10) in 1980 to 67.8 million (almost 1 in 5), according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report. At the same time, the number of people who spoke only English also increased, growing by approximately one-fourth from 187.2 million in 1980 to 241 million in 2019. The Hispanic population is the largest minority group in the U.S. So, it is not surprising Spanish is the most common non-English language spoken in U.S. homes (62 percent), 12 times greater than the next four most common languages. (Today’s podcast can be found here and this week’s is sponsored by SimpleNexus, an nCino company and the homeownership platform that unites th
Crestwood Equity Partners LP announced today that Steven Dougherty, Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, will be leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Dougherty. | April 25, 2023