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LodeStar integrates with Stewart

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As a result, we’re bringing greater clarity to the process for consumers and professionals alike, and empowering loan officers and lenders to redirect their human resources away from manual tasks like researching closing fees and toward more complex functions like marketing, sales and customer service.”.

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Michael Saleh leaves Rocket to launch brokerage firm Zoom Home Lending

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Another Zoom co-founder is Robert Lee Turfe, who comes from General Motors and leads areas such as marketing and human resources. His team at Zoom Home Lending currently has about 20 loan officers, but he is targeting 100 in the company’s first year of business. “Rocket went public and the times have changed.

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Country Club Mortgage to lay off employees, including CEO, and shutter offices

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6, 2024,” Sherry Carson, human resources generalist at Country Club Mortgage, wrote in a letter sent to the Employment Development Department in California in early December. It also says it processes, underwrites and funds loans in-house. More than 50 mortgage loan officers were let go.

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Texana Bank to trim workforce in California

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Lauren Witherspoon, director of human resources, wrote: “Circumstances will force Texana Bank to conduct layoffs,” taking place Sept. The layoffs include loan officers, underwriters, processors, post-closing and secondary market staff. 5, according to the document reviewed by HousingWire.

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DOL accuses PrimeLending of violating whistleblower provisions

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According to the DOL, the company terminated two California-based employees after they reported to a regional manager and the vice president of Human Resources that a branch manager pressured them to pass on fees to loan applicants caused by internal processing delays. mortgage lender in 2023.

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First Savings Bank to cut 100-plus mortgage jobs across multiple states

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“First Savings Bank has planned a layoff in which a significant portion of impacted employees are considered remote or virtual employees in multiple states,” Julie Bleich, senior vice president and human resources director, wrote to the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity in Michigan on Sept. Its volume declined from $1.1

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Top-producing Draper and Kramer LOs spurn NAF

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Most of last year’s top-producing loan officers at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. Compensation According to a letter the DKMC human resources department sent in late January to sales staff that declined to join NAF, originators will receive compensation for any products funded within 30 days.