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2006
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I am available to the Realtors that I work with, and my Borrowers seven days a week, and I welcome calls into the very late evening. No matter were I am a wedding, family function, or trip my phone is on and I answer it. But there is a time during the week that I turn it off, that time is Sunday...
10/08/2006
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The Yankees lost today, and as a Yankee fan for over 45 years it is hard to take. I hate lossing, but I hate it even more when I don't see the desire in some of the Non-Yankees on the team as I see in the true Yankees. Guys like Jeter, Georgie, & Bernie leave it all on the field and they have pri...
10/07/2006
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Some of you might have grown up in a time that you can identify with this. 1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning." 2. My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet." 3....
10/07/2006
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Deals are to valuable to leave to chance. At the very least insist on a Pre-Approval, but get a Commitment if you can. More and more of the Realtors that I work with are telling me that they are questioning the Pre-Qualification Letters that they are seeing. If it is one of their Buyers they t...
10/07/2006
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I don't know about you but there are few things that irritate me more than people that don't return phone calls. I am not talking about clients, I am talking about people who are looking for my business. How do they stay in business? If someone calls me, I return the call as soon as I get the me...
10/06/2006
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Yesterday I wrote about what I do at Open Houses, today I am writing about what I see at Open Houses. Some Open Houses that I stop at, I walk in and my first impression is WOW this is really nice. Everything is clean, there isn't any clutter, and it is decorated really well. I can tell that th...
10/06/2006
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There are people that make a very good living, telling other people how to be successful. Success seems to be treated as some great mystery, but I fail to see what the great mystery is. To me the formula is pretty simple, but doing it is NOT. All the successful that I know have these thing in c...
10/06/2006
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My question is to the Realtors on AR. Why do you do business with the Loan Officer that you use? - Is it the service that he or she provides? - Is that availability? - Is because they get back to you right away? - Is it knowledge of the product? - Is it the way he or she gets back to and ...
10/05/2006
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I try to stop by three Open House every Sunday. My local newspaper list the Open Houses on Saturday, this allows me to plan on the ones I want to do the next day. I not only plan on which ones I want to stop in on, but I also put together Flyers on high quality glossy paper with Loan Scenarios o...
10/05/2006
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The worst day that I have had since I became a Loan Officer, was a couple of years ago when I lost a Loan for over $600,000. I worked on this Loan for over a week, and had to do several things to get it to work. I turned it in, my underwriter jumped through hoop to approve it, and the day before...
10/05/2006
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