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Competition is the mainstay of many businesses and individuals. How does UPS compete to hire drivers for their trucks? One way might be to offer air conditioning, which has been negotiated for the first time. Lenders and vendors are led by competitive people, and several own interests in major or minor league sports franchises, the latest being Stan Middleman & the Phillies. Competition in the food and beverage industry? SF’s Anchor Steam was scaling back, Tupperware is in rough straits, and now the owner of Pyrex and Insta Pot is filing for bankruptcy! How is the public expected to keep its leftovers!? Builders are out there competing for lots. Residential lenders don’t compete with real estate agents, but NAR is always discussing its lobbying efforts. This week the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is hosting a national, industry-wide campaign to grow its free grassroots advocacy network, the Mortgage Action Alliance (MAA), a non-partisan and effective way
Here’s a couple informal reads on the economy. When I have a few extra ducats in my pocket, sometimes I’ll spring for the more expensive Shrimp Alfredo at Olive Garden instead of the cheaper Lasagna Classico. When Freedom Mortgage’s Stan Middleman is faced with a similar situation, instead of buying a couple seats near the dugout of the Philadelphia Phillies, he bought a piece of the entire team. I have some Tupperware that I never bought. You? My Mom went to Tupperware parties: Not expensive, lasts forever, people would have their favorites pieces, using it better than thousands of miles of plastic wrap clogging the landfills every year. But Tupperware is faltering. And so is San Francisco’s 127-year-old, iconic Anchor Brewing Company. The brewer of Anchor Steam, owned by Japan’s Sapporo, confirmed that it would not brew its beloved Christmas Ale this year due to time and cost constraints. America’s first microbrewer is planning to pull back i
Top 10 lender and servicer Freedom Mortgage has trimmed its workforce across multiple rounds of layoffs this year and continues to "offshore" jobs, former employees tell HousingWire.
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There’s always “stuff” going on in residential lending, right? Capital markets folks have noticed that the big banks are re-entering buying jumbo loans from correspondents. BAML’s pass through channel, Wells Fargo, Redwood Trust, Chase, Citi remind us that banks and investors are cash rich and seeking to put assets on their books at the right price and LTV. Many lenders are concerned about retaining their Ops/fulfillment staff, and what they had to pay them in 2020 to keep the competition from stealing them away. Staffing and technology is critical. Our industry continues to work primarily from home, and IT staffs are ever vigilant about data security and consumer privacy while HR watches the health and safety of employees for those who have come back into the office. The pandemic has driven innovation, which will have long term economic cons