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Reverse mortgage veteran reflects on his career: ‘Everyone has a story to tell’

Housing Wire

In August 2004, I went out to Boston for a week of reverse mortgage training. Wells Fargo had very good and thorough training — it was a solid week because you needed to focus solely on reverse mortgages. Cullen: Wells bailed out in the summer of 2011. You really have to develop that relationship. Can we do that?

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Interfirst Mortgage to lay off nearly 50 LOs

Housing Wire

Interfirst was founded in 2001 as a retail originator and then expanded to the wholesale channel and the correspondent channel in 2008 and 2011, respectively. In 2017, after years of plummeting volumes, the company, led by CEO Dmitry Godin, decided to shutter its business, only to relaunch in 2020.

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Most good things change, and most change is good!

Appraisal Buzz

Next gen appraisers Several white papers have been developed on the declining number of appraisers dating back to 2011. There are also the economics of training new appraisers and the numerous and disparate state laws and lender prohibitions. As the United State’s population increases, most occupations are graying.

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In wake of scandal, LOs say continuing education programs get failing grade?

Housing Wire

John Jeha, an LO at Stonecastle Mortgage who also works as a CE instructor, said that after new regulations were introduced in 2011, it took about five years for them to be fully implemented and that educators were happy to “flesh it out and instruct the loan officers.”. ” They aren’t delivering the latest information.”

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What’s old is new: A deep dive into the ‘teamerage’ revival

Housing Wire

Despite their different viewpoints, what most can agree on is that teamerages supply their agents with more training, mentoring and services, such as transaction coordination, listing management, compliance, marketing, a CRM, and other technology tools than most traditional brokerages.

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. “The state of the housing crisis,” Pullen said, “Is such that we do not have the luxury to say ‘no’ to any innovative approach.”.

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How Big Data Is Transforming the Healthcare Industry

GoForrmz

But not all software solutions are created equally, and in many cases, software developers aren’t held to the same HIPAA standards that healthcare staff are. Be sure that you’re working with a trusted provider and ask them detailed questions about their security, development standards, and even customer support processes.