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There Goes the Neighborhood.

Appraisal Buzz

The space shuttle program finally came to an end in 2011, primarily due to its outdated design, aging technology, and its inability to meet the evolving goals of the organization. The new GSE market section aligns with the language used in USPAP Standards 1 4, which govern residential appraisal development, reporting, and review.

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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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Westcor Land Title Insurance Company Promotes Bettina Arthur to VP, Sales Enablement

Appraisal Buzz

Her subject matter expertise spansescrow, closing, mortgage lending, sales, home building, human resources, general management, and organizational development. Arthur joined Westcor in 2011 and served as director of training prior to this new role.

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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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