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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Lately I’ve been chatting with quite a few loan officers. In the last 10 days, I spoke with someone who was so desperate, he offered me 50% of his closings for the next 6 months if I could help him close more; and I also spoke with a loan officer who closed […]

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I’ll be speaking on a panel this summer at Inman Bloggers Connect entitled, “Blogging Pitfalls: How NOT to Get Sued“. We’ll be talking about stuff like slander, NAR’s code of ethics, RESPA and more. But the most common mistake I see most bloggers make is to steal photos from other people’s sights. I’m using “steal” […]

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Our LinkedIn Networking Group continues to grow. If you haven’t joined yet, what are you waiting for?
Here’s some prior coverage of LinkedIn
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Jay Thompson, a real estate broker blogger on Phoenix AZ wrote two great posts today concerning a lesson I had to learn the hard way.
Jay comments on his own blog about an attack piece written by Redfin Blogger Carol Hian. Then follows up with a great article over at Agent Genius about how such an […]

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“I don’t want my family to think I need money,” she said. It was a conversation that I had with a fantastic loan officer last Thursday. She does a heck of a job closing loans in Florida. Another 2.0 stranger that I’ve come to like. It’s a serious thing, you don’t want […]

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In our coverage of the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, the most common objection to participating in the platform was based on worries about the fairness of the rating system.
Our own Wade Young decided to opt out of the program over concerns that one bad (an unjustified) review in cyberspace could result in tarnishing his […]

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