“The seminar ‘How to avoid frauds’ is canceled. Tickets are non-refundable.” Mortgage fraud is alive and well in the United States. In...

Under the “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade” category… Like any asset in a free market economy, home and real estate prices are...

Does anyone pay with cash anymore, or actually have the money in their bank account? Credit card debt is now $1.1 trillion . There is...

“I've been experimenting with breeding racing deer. People have accused me of just trying to make a fast buck.” There are no fast bucks...

AI doesn’t have an NMLS number. (Zillow has never, ever set foot in a house for that matter.) Do you own a computer? Most in lending do....

Residential business is coming through in dribs and drabs for many lenders, but that doesn’t stop all the random news out there. To no...

“I've started telling everyone about the benefits of eating dried grapes. It's all about raisin awareness.” You should also be aware of...

For many, business is slow out there, and the industry waits for the House vote today on the abusive trigger lead bill. Depository banks...

Happy Summer Solstice, and happy 50th birthday to the movie Jaws . Back then, for security, all we had to remember was where we hid our...

Sometimes you have just one more thing to “ get over ” in order to fund that loan. In Hawai’i and other places, the conversation has, to...

Today we hear from the U.S. Federal Reserve. We can expect no change to overnight fed funds. As pointed yesterday by Dr. Paul Brewbaker,...

In Spain, Spaniards are shooting water pistols at foreigners to protest the impact of mass tourism: it has created a housing crunch ....

Any food science major will tell you that the difference between jelly and jam is that jam has chunks of fruit in it; jelly is strained....

Are the changes in the news cycle trying to keep up with the Trump Administration, or vice versa? “There's something happening here. But...

Hey, for you LOs who think things are slow, you can always go into golf. The best example of this is ex-LO Ben Griffin who has racked up...

“I was always a home builder, but lately I’ve developed an apartment complex.” Here in Florida, so many structures are made of stucco...

Here in Tampa, I was walking through the hotel bar last night when I overheard someone say, “Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 PM is...

“Why is Ireland so expensive? House prices are always Dublin'.” Those days are temporarily over in the United States, and the pendulum is...

For the next several days I am in Florida, in mortgage meetings and the MBAF, and in Saturday’s Commentary I noted the intense flurry of...

This week and next week the conference agendas are packed, with the MBA’s Chairman's Conference , New Jersey , the MBA Florida , EPM TAG...