Some of you may have noticed my extremely low profile on Lenderama the last couple of months.  Some may have welcomed it!  But business has been very good and keeping up with the tasks of my daily blog along with the busiest time of year for me can prove daunting.  Especially when still trying to […]

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First, and let’s make this very clear, this is a post intended for fun.  But underneath the fun there is definitely some truth.  And I’m posting this to get the loan officer’s side of the story. 
I was reading Jeff Brown’s post Beware - Time Is Not Always Your Friend - Tick Tock and […]

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Real estate is a tough business to make a living in.  And I don’t care if you are the agent, the loan officer or the title person.  But I have empathy for the loan officers more than the other participants.  Theirs (yours) is a far more cut-throat business than mine.
I drive around with my clients.  […]

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The whole shake-out of lenders is something that I believe we’ve needed for quite some time. Same is true for real estate agents. And have you noticed that banks are no longer clamoring to get into the real estate sales side of things?
I’ve written before about how the real estate shake-out was […]

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January is a great time to reflect on where your business is coming from.  Last January when I did this it became apparent to me that I needed to mail less and blog more.  (And therefore I literally saved thousands of dollars.)  Never has reviewing your client base origination been so important as it is […]

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One of the biggest mistakes I see newer real estate agents make time after time, year after year, is being discouraged from December through February.  What their lack of vision fails to tell them is that December through March is the time I develop the contacts, leads and systems that will make me money the […]

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I came home today and opened the mailbox.  That’s not the news here.  Neither is the fact that I had credit card application solicitations in the mailbox.  But even for a Monday the total was staggering.  5 apps from Chase and 1 from Bank of America.
Is this the price of good credit?  A non-stop barrage of […]

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