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Originator’s Guide to Surviving Market Constriction

There are two types of mortgage originators; those in it for the short money and those in it for the long money. In other ...

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October 2020

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Effective Leadership Through Crisis Times: A Lender’s Story

These are challenging times. Times that bring out the best and worst in people, including leaders. In our July 2020 Insight Report, STRATMOR talked ...

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August 2020

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Mortgage Banking Is a Balancing Act

Sometimes I feel like we live in a world of extremes. Extreme political and social views seem to dominate social media and the 24-hour ...

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mortgage lending is a balancing act represented by woman gymnast balancing on two hands

July 2020

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Some Things Never Change: Supply and Demand, Unintended Consequences and Cash Is King

This spring, STRATMOR conducted five workshops for more than 200 industry executives — just as the COVID-19 pandemic roiled the mortgage industry with extreme ...

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three knots representing three things that don't change in mortgage business

June 2020

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Creating a Customer-Centric Culture in a Brave New World

There’s a famous quotation from Socrates about change that speaks to where business, and the mortgage industry in particular, is today: “The secret of ...

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