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

Housing Wire

I think one is, when you’re talking about managing liquidity in a period when interest rates go up as fast as they did, we weren’t hedging our pipeline. I got a lot of pushback from my salesforce. So when I’m selling loans at 7%, our competitors were trying to sell loans at 5%. It’s really that simple.

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Opinion: How marketing automation saved an LO’s business

Housing Wire

How marketing saved my business. This was a lesson I learned back in the early 80s. I was selling houses like crazy in Denver. The crash happened unbelievably fast. But I was only really good at one thing, selling houses. I had to sell five houses to get one to close so I could get paid.

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Judge denies HomeServices’ motion for mistrial in commission lawsuit

Housing Wire

After filing a motion for a mistrial Wednesday morning, citing several grievances including “vulgar” footage from a Tom Ferry podcast featuring Allan Dalton and references to the Department of Justice’s investigation of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), defendant HomeServices of America learned it didn’t get its way.

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June Newsletter-Easing Off the Pedal

DW Slater Company

When the officer asked me how fast I was going, I told him truthfully that I didn’t know. You see my speedometer had stopped working in my car and I didn’t have the extra funds to fix it so I just drove along with everyone else. It really was a good class and I learned things from it that still help today. It was great!

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Phil Shoemaker on lessons learned from Homepoint’s demise & The Loan Store’s future 

Housing Wire

Aligning expectations is just one of the lessons Shoemaker learned at Homepoint , a private equity-backed lender that went public in early 2021 and faced constant pressure from its investors. .” Flávia Nunes: Why did Homepoint choose to sell its origination business to TLS? But you learn things, right? That’s not my goal.

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2021 will be the year of the tech-enabled agent

Housing Wire

For the housing economy in particular, tech helped to solve many of the challenges that COVID presented and allowed the industry to not only sustain, but prosper. “In HousingWire reached out to Berkowitz to learn how real estate tech is playing a role in the current housing boom and what homebuyer trends will look like in the new year.

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What role does the servicer play in creating clients for life?

Housing Wire

For rate/term, a system like CARE combines real-time UPB and pricing data so you can issue offers that close fast. Seamless Customer Service: And going back to my opening paragraph above: customer expectations for both push-button simplicity and smart human advice are changing the game. Self-serve isn’t enough.

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