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Sticking to Core Values
While at TMC’s “The Mane Event” in Louisville, Kentucky, Alayna had the opportunity to chat with Stephen Huang, Key Account Director at MeridianLink, about sales, the benefits of being a vendor vs. a lender, and the importance of sticking to your core values.
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What To Do When Things Are “Kind of OK”
One of our core values at LodeStar is Clarity. We aspire to be honest and straightforward. Sometimes that’s easy. Sometimes, especially when the market is just “kind of OK,” that’s tough.
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Loan Estimate Challenges
Tennessee’s Biggest LE Challenges
Home to The Grand Ole Opry, the longest running radio show in the world for any genre, Tennessee is also the birthplace of cotton candy, Mountain Dew and the Moon Pie.
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Women in Mortgage Tech
For this week’s episode of LLL, Alayna and Kelsey chat about their experience as women in the mortgage space, how things have changed, and where they came from.
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True Mentors Don’t Demand Confidence—They Instill Competence
For whatever reason, some folks assume “mentorship” needs to come through some kind of formal program with titles and labels. But it’s much more than that.
Loan Estimate Challenges
Connecticut’s Biggest LE Challenges
Connecticut is one of the nation’s 22 states or districts that require an attorney’s involvement in residential real estate purchase transactions.
Lending Leaders
Viewing Challenges as Opportunities
For this week’s episode of the LodeStar Lending Leaders podcast, Alayna talks with SimpleNexus CTO Lori Brewer about women in STEM and the impact that unforeseen challenges can have on your career.
A Tale of Two Mortgages
“Good for Them”
Horace and Octavia discuss their borrowers “capitalizing on current market volatility.”
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It’s All About Culture
Building business cultures based upon equity, respect, trust, diversity and clarity is yet another example in which doing the right thing is also the best business decision.
Lending Leaders
Recapping ICE Encompass Experience 2023
For this week’s LLL, Jim and Alayna sit down back at LodeStar HQ to recap their experience exhibiting at ICE Experience 2023 in Las Vegas.