I was on a conference call recently with a group of people from a goal setting club I belong to and we were talking about being at the beginning of the second half of the year and where we were in the progress our goals. GULP! I swallowed hard. I knew this moment was coming [...]
Last week I learned about a great new website for mortgage professionals. This was started by some people that I’m really close with from Option One Mortgage and other companies. Here is some information from the press release I received.
As part of a project to support the mortgage community during this time of transition, [...]
There’s a couple of things I want to talk about today. First, which I was surprised to hear, in church on Sunday one of our regular standing prayer petitions was about the mortgage crisis. We were asked to pray for all the people involved. I guess what surprised me was the fact that this has [...]
Yesterday, the Mortgage News Daily ran an article entitled “Stop Paying Your Mortgage and Walk Away?” It talked about a new company called You Walk Away, LLC that assists homeowners with the process of walking away from their homes, more specifically their mortgages. I have to applaud Mortgage News Daily for going against what this [...]
I was talking with a colleague this afternoon and he asked me a very interesting question: What is the #1 mistake loan officers make?
I answered in 2 parts:
1. Failure to have a Personal Development Program (PDP)
2. Failure to go out and get the business even if they work for a company that provides them leads [...]
A quick review of today’s headlines is enough to throw anyone in our industry into a depressive state. From “Home Resales, Prices Decline” to “Siemen’s Cutting 4000 jobs”, to “Housing slump Weigh’s on Lowe’s” and finally my favorite, “Countrywide cancels Posh Ski Trip (sidebar on the Wall Street Journal Online).”
While I think it’s important that [...]
Last week, Todd Carpenter wrote about this blog not being a mortgage blog but a blog about how to become a better professional in the mortgage business. I guess that’s what attracted me here in the first place. We’ve got a great group of contributors from all spectrums of the business.
I love our business. It’s [...]
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