Julian,You cannot get a mortgage brokers license without being a loan officer or in some cases a branch manager.

Where we go down is a side branch which has shallow water, next an island and then the actual river.

The worst lenders I have dealt with are the ones with underwriters in one time zone and origination department in another, branch manager in another that don’t communicate well with each other and end up over-promising while not being able to deliver.

Not all loan officers are created equal so if you call up a branch, you are likely to get assigned someone inexperienced. 

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If that branch alone breaks off and damages your garage I do not think you can blame your neighbor because that branch belonged to you and could have been trimmed by you.

Citibank, ScotiaBank.Maybe you could have him setup an account at one of those and just deposit from a local branch in the US.ScotiaBank has some pretty good international accounts with free transfers.

Fortunately, I stay completely occupied through FF so I've not had a need to branch out further.

These properties are now rented as long-term rentals, and we plan to expand our portfolio while also branching into short-term rentals.Looking back, I realize how much my current knowledge and experience could have fast-tracked our success.

Firstly, well done for persevering and trying every avenue you thought would get you the data you needed.Most would have caved earlier and handed out there hard earned cash for old, saturated leads/records from the same prominent platforms which dump them pretty much when they receive them from either 1).the same large brokers AFTER the county has listed them on the county website or, 2). from the counties themselves directly AFTER the county has listed them on there own website, or, 3). from data scrapers on Upwork/Fiverr who scrape the data from those same platforms AFTER the counties/brokers sell those platforms the data being scraped by the freelancers.Anyway, rant aside you seem to of made the same mistake i made when I first started branching out away from providing leads to my original couple of clients i got from Upwork who wanted me to scrape data from court records in FL for pre FC leads.Simply, I didn't know where to look for the information I needed in states outside of FL.FL only allows the judicial route to foreclosure so I only needed to know/find/scrape the data from Lis Pendens documents for counties they requested.