Posts Tagged ‘settlement services’

The Box of Donuts is Evolving

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Let’s be honest.  The settlement services and even the mortgage industry are what we would politely call “traditional.”  On good days, that means old-fashioned values like loyalty and honesty.  But on the not-so-good days, shall we say it means, ahem, conservative? (more…)

Budget-less Branding for Title and Mortgage Pros

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Things are quiet out there (except, maybe, for the dull roar of hostility and confusion emanating from a nebulous netherworld somewhere between the 2010 GFE and 2010 HUD-1…).  We’re ready for the “down market” to go up again.  But it appears the market isn’t quite ready to oblige.

 

Nonetheless, there is business being done.  We just have to fight a little harder for our share of it. (more…)

In tough times, entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see conspiracy…

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Even though some feel the housing market may be “bottoming out” these days, decision-makers in the mortgage and title industries are still nervously watching the stream of regulatory ideas streaming out of our nation’s capital, which has become some combination of Frankenstein’s lab and crash course in understanding the mortgage industry in the first place. (more…)