If you’re staying here in Manhattan, space is at a premium. I don’t recall the last time my room had a bathroom where one could turn the shower on, flush the toilet, and brush their teeth in the sink, all for a nightly tariff that would more than cover the monthly rent in many places around the world. Although this conference is about all things capital markets, like screaming buybacks from the Agencies, especially Freddie Mac, the primary markets are also a source of conversation. “Good originators don’t always make good branch managers.” “Many LOs have high emotional IQs, so it is very difficult for them to let an LOA or processor go. If LOs were doing 20 loans a month, an LOA makes sense, but when they’re doing five?” “Forget volume: A roughly 67 percent drop in units in two years… How are lenders handling that?” Stay tuned for more topics from the hallways at the National Secondary! (Today’s podcast
“When I was young, I was poor. But after decades of hard work, I am no longer young.” The quip about “The greatest cause of death is birth” aside, we’re all going to die. The question is, “How?” It takes a while for statistics to catch up, but in 2019 the biggest killers of Americans were heart disease, cancer, and being poor. “There were at least 180,000 poverty-related deaths in 2019, new research estimates, surpassing deaths from causes like homicide and drug overdoses.” Unclean air, water, lack of access to good health care are listed. But we, in the residential lending industry, are in a good place to help better people’s housing situation… every day! Loan officers are in a very good position to do so, and today is the last day for them to comment on NMLS Modernization. (Today’s podcast can be found here and this week’s is sponsored by Richey May, a recognized leader in providing specialized
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