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5 March 2024 | 4 replies
A LOT of distrress is leading to mergers and firings, in just the last few weeks, this happened: (Big credit to @NewsLambert)Lower to acquire Universal Lending retail and wholesale operations (11/1/23)Trustar Mortgage acquired by Archer Mortgage, LLC (11/1/23)People’s Bank of Commerce to exit residential mortgage lending (10/27/23)BMO Bank cutting 228 jobs in Northern California (10/25/23)Homestar Financial to wind down operations (10/25/23)City National Bank layoffs in Los Angeles total 71 (10/23/23)Hometown Lenders layoffs (10/12/23)First Savings Bank to lay off 135 mortgage workers (10/4/23)Wesley Mortgage absorbs competitor Colten Mortgage (10/4/23)Cenlar to lay off 85 in Ewing, NJ (10/2/23)Rithm Capital to acquire Computershare Mortgage Services Inc. (10/2/23)Wells Fargo cut 525 jobs in South Carolina (9/28/23)Better Mortgage lays off additional employees (9/22/23)The Graystone Company has acquired Direct Mortgage (9/13/23)Flyhomes to purchase certain assets of Home Sale Assured (9/13/23)Divvy Homes to cut 95 jobs in San Francisco (9/11/23)Farmers-Merchants Bank to sell three branches to focus on core mortgage business (9/11/23)It goes on…..The mortgage industry is in a starkly deep recession.And RIP refinances, unless you are holding an even higher interest rate loan (like a construction/bridge loan or hard money, or perhaps you just fixed your credit.
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5 March 2024 | 12 replies
The most one our lender I saw do was 50% LTC for new builder with zero experience for their company.
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4 March 2024 | 46 replies
No legitimate company will speak to someone like that.
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3 March 2024 | 10 replies
If not you can go to the office and search OR order a title report on it from a source like protitleusa.com (note not affiliated with them, we do use them to order our reports) Hi @Chris Seveney, Is this a reliable website?
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4 March 2024 | 1 reply
Does anyone know a good lawyer and a good title company to help write up a purchase contract and complete a seller financing transaction in Davenport Iowa?
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4 March 2024 | 1 reply
Any recommended companies/people who would be able to assist with handling such transaction?
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4 March 2024 | 10 replies
Very hard without the LLC not holding assets for collateral.There is a trick out there with getting company credit cards and then going to a company who will cash you out of those cards and those cards usually hold a very low APR or no APR for the first 12 months.I know someone who got 150k like that, BUT, what if you blow that money then you have that debt hanging over your head.
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4 March 2024 | 4 replies
Unfortunately I don't think I can get checking accounts with these companies.
5 March 2024 | 26 replies
I live in Seattle but started in 2020 by buying in Memphis through a turnkey company where prices were much lower.
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4 March 2024 | 1 reply
I have a management company and I personally invest myself as well.