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Share this...TwitterLinkedinThere’s a café down the street from my home that is a local favorite — and for good reason. The cheery red awnings ...
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Share this...TwitterLinkedinI spoke with a mortgage banking executive recently and asked how his company was organized from a retail branch perspective. He said, “We ...
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Share this...TwitterLinkedinAs we approach the halfway mark for 2021, now is a good time to level-set, to take a moment to get our bearings ...
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Share this...TwitterLinkedinIn February, I had the privilege of facilitating two “deep dive” Operations Workshops with a total of 120 operations executives representing 49 different ...
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Share this...TwitterLinkedinFor mortgage bankers, 2020 was the “party for the ages.” National origination volume expanded by somewhere between 60 and 90 percent, depending upon ...
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Share this...TwitterLinkedinThere are two types of mortgage originators; those in it for the short money and those in it for the long money. In ...
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Share this...TwitterLinkedinThese are challenging times. Times that bring out the best and worst in people, including leaders. In our July 2020 Insight Report, STRATMOR ...
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Share this...TwitterLinkedinSometimes I feel like we live in a world of extremes. Extreme political and social views seem to dominate social media and the ...
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Share this...TwitterLinkedinThis spring, STRATMOR conducted five workshops for more than 200 industry executives — just as the COVID-19 pandemic roiled the mortgage industry with ...
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