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Are these factors creating chaos in your mortgage lending ops?

Housing Wire

From mortgage origination to servicing, companies are constantly grappling with high volume and stringent regulatory oversight while managing a large cohort of vendor partners. Smaller mortgage originators often deal with this problem by throwing more people at it. We’re seeing mortgage executives and workers retiring at record rates.

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7 best real estate schools in Massachusetts for 2024

Housing Wire

Lee Institute Best real estate schools in MA for every stage of your career Overall Rating: 4.2 Students chose the school for its offering of live instruction classes for salespersons, brokers, appraisers, mortgage, and home inspection courses at various locations and convenient times, including weekend classes.

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#264: Ask Paula – How Do I Pick the Right Mix of Investments for My Retirement Portfolio?

Afford Anything

My husband and I are debt-free besides our mortgage, we have a 5-month emergency fund, a separate account for home repairs, we max out our 401ks and Roth IRAs every year. If it is time to make a move, should I move the entire $70,000 balance into the new funds all at once, take a staged approach, or should I direct new contributions there?

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#350: Ask Paula: How Much Should We Spend on a Wedding?

Afford Anything

Anonymous asks (at 4:28 minutes): I’m in the early stages of wedding planning and the hardest part has been creating a budget. We have two mortgages, with one being a rental home, and we have a car loan at just 1.9%. Gusto makes payroll, benefits, and HR easy for modern small businesses. We’re both in our early thirties.

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Seven Predictions for 2023: The Grime Edition

Notorious ROB

Rocket Mortgage Acquires Redfin. To be fair, there were a number of big announcements, but the one I honed in on was this one: We plan to overhaul our current mortgage funnels away from third-party lead generation and toward Zillow Home Loans , and bolster our loan officers’ tools and capabilities to help the customers who come their way.

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