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Movement Mortgage names Lyra Waggoner chief information officer

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Michael Brennan, president of Movement, said Waggoner can empower loan officers with the tools they “need to win.”. “I’m excited to translate this vision into transformational action across our technology platform by putting the best tools in the hands of our loan officers,” Waggoner said in a statement. .

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Leadership lessons learned from team sports

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Doing so helps you move on and focus your energy constructively. Volly ’s most successful customers use our tools to engage with a combination of email, social, print and other multi-mediums that when choreographed together successfully blankets the market. This is when marketing automation tools can be especially impactful.

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Refi Sugar High: How to balance your lending diet

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You’ve probably staffed up on loan officers equipped to handle this influx, and you may be shunning riskier, less immediately gratifying business. You’ve brought on processors, underwriters and loan officers to accommodate the rise in refi volume, and perhaps that includes some wild incentive plans based on how much they can handle.

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After mortgage lenders shut down, what’s next for loan originators?

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. “I didn’t want to just jump for money,” Miller said, noting that some lenders with lower rates have complexities of putting together a loan — and transferring over existing clients’ loans is a different process for every company. It also underwrites conventional loans and works as a marketing tool for LOs.

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A look behind this year’s Tech100 winners

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Vishal Garg and his dolphins (google it) aim to “radically overhaul the analog mortgage process, which still involves commissioned loan officers, 2,000 pages of paperwork and manual intervention at every step.”. Better.com (a 2020 Tech100 winner) is one of the examples I put in this disrupter category.

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Despite headwinds, these mortgage companies are hiring

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Purchase-focused lenders that didn’t balloon in size to capture refinancing business during the boom, in particular, are looking to hire loan officers. With over 200 branches in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, Trew said the bank is focused on purchase and the construction business.

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HW+ Member Spotlight: Mark Jones

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As such, we were one of the few lenders in the country that refused to offer subprime loans. At the time, that decision cost us loan officers left and right as they departed for firms that would let them originate anything they wanted. In the lead up to the crash, we could tell that something wasn’t quite right. It was rough.