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Seven Deadly Mistakes to Avoid When Setting Up a Mortgage Company!
Have you recently started your own company or still pondering if you should? This webinar will provide some insight into issues you may not have considered. Register for our January 9, 2020 LIVE webinar hosted by National Mortgage Professional Magazine (NMP); “Seven Deadly Mistakes Owners Make When Setting up...
GSEs Delay New 1003 Mandatory Use Date…Indefinitely!
After delaying the “optional use date”, yesterday the FHFA and GSEs announced the new 1003 mandatory use date will no longer be February 1, 2020. This should take some pressure off of lenders who were facing a deadline that was creeping up. Now, the GSEs have been directed to...
What Happens at Conferences…Should Come Home with You!
Years ago, a local competitor asked me, “Why do you attend all these mortgage conferences? What a waste of time.” I responded “because that’s where Professionals learn.” Several years later one of his originators had their license revoked for copying and pasting signatures! Not all associations or conferences make...
Did the CFPB Mandate Education for Bank Originators?
Did the game just change? For the sake of full disclosure, I am an originator, course developer and trainer. I think you may want to read the recently released guidance. This is not a secret. Consumers do not know the differences between “individual originators,” registered or licensed or brokers, lenders or banks....
Introducing the Loan Originator Pre-licensing Education Sequel Course “Mortgage Professional Practices”
A complete video presentation on the "Best Practices" of mortgage loan originators.
California’s AB 3108: New Felony Charges for Mortgage Brokers
When a Borrower Doesn’t Qualify for Conventional Financing—Think Twice Before Defaulting to Non-QM! It’s tempting to label a loan as investment purpose when a borrower doesn’t meet conventional guidelines—even when they plan to occupy the home as a primary residence. Well, that loophole just slammed shut! California’s AB 3108...
Fannie Requiring Business Accounts for Self-Employed!
My analogy to guidelines these days is they are like trying to hold jello in the palm of your hand. Squishy, slippery, moving; slipping through your fingers! Patience is a virtue! We need to understand that underwriters spend MUCH more time determining the amount of income that can be...
Mortgage Training Doesn’t Have to Be Overwhelming or Expensive—Here’s a Better Way!
Looking for a smarter, more affordable way to learn the mortgage business? If you are preparing to pass the NMLS exam and start a career as a mortgage loan originator (MLO), it comes with a steep learning curve. You need to understand complex loan products, strict guidelines, compliance rules...
Zoom Meeting: I.R.S., COVID19 & 1099s!
26,000,000 people filed for unemployment in the past several weeks; and it’s not over! The Coronavirus is causing serious financial issues for states. For the first time ever, independent contractors are eligible under the CARES Act , even though unemployment taxes may not have been paid in. When the...
NMLS Late C.E. Happy Leap Year!
If you really, really procrastinated taking 2019 CE be glad this is a leap year! Last fall the NMLS published a Notice on 2020 Late CE Course Catalog. The notice included rules in an overview, which if you are licensed MLO, you already know, right? But…since there are two...
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8 Hour SAFE Comprehensive Federal CE 2018 – November 2018
Deb was great in presenting the true nature of the course piece by piece and helped with her many years of experience outline some of the more critical areas of the industry and expectations. The course was excellent because the provider was an experienced mortgage veteran for many years and understands how to present the material to make sure the key points as well as the main facts of the true nature of the job are outlined while instilling the required knowledge of the federal laws and guidelines mandated in the industry.




