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5 tips to upgrade your real estate networking game

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It’s about crafting a strategy that not only ensures you remain at the forefront of people’s minds but also prevents your connections from growing cold. As you establish and nurture contacts, you should identify the people with whom you share interests and perspectives, likes and dislikes.

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Guild Mortgage CEO on values, culture and M&A priorities

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Scale is an important tool for maintaining investment in people and technology, Schmidt said, and the additional companies that Guild has brought aboard recently reflect its goals for culture and leadership and may have had issues of scale that were solved by joining Guild, she said. Everybody has a voice.

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These LOs are TikTok sensations. They call a potential ban “unfortunate”

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The following year, the Maryland-based lender created an Influencer Division, appointing Betley as vice president and co-creator. Using trending videos, educational content and humor to reveal all the secrets about buying a house, Betley, known as @thatmortgageguy , has reached 870,000 followers and garnered 15.5 million likes.

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14 powerful tips to master networking as an introvert in real estate

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But we know that real estate (or any sales industry) requires lots of talking to people, relationship-building, and networking. A handful of solid connections that could lead to impactful relationships over time is much more valuable than handing your card out to 100 people who will probably just throw it away. Not to worry, though.

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Acra CEO Keith Lind on staying the course amid choppy waters in non-QM

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I think a lot of people in this industry probably got caught sideways because they had never seen a rate environment where rates went up. I think the hardest part was the layoffs followed by salary cuts across the organization. We are not a huge company and we had to go from 460 people to 275 really fast. And it’s tough.

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Taking a closer look at the reasons seniors ‘unretire’

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The trend was the subject of a recent book, “Unretired: How Highly Effective People Live Happily Ever After,” written by journalist and management consultant Mark Peabody. The idea of discontinuing work that matters to them and discontinuing the ability to make a contribution is a very painful thought. Louis and the U.S.

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Heartland MLS joins forces with Down Payment Resource

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It’s imperative for real estate agents to inform homebuyers about DPA opportunities so more people can qualify for a mortgage and begin building generational wealth through homeownership,” Rob Chrane, founder and CEO of DPR, said in a statement.