LodeStar’s Jim Paolino talks with Melissa Langdale about the future of mortgage lending and what it really means to collaborate as an industry.
This is LodeStar’s 100th “A Tale of Two Mortgages” webcomic!!!
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.
This week, Jim, Dave, and Alayna take an opportunity to pop some champagne and celebrate LodeStar placing on the 2022 Inc. Magazine list of America’s 5000 fastest growing private companies.
Welcome back to the Summer Session of LodeStar’s Lending Leaders! This week, Jim gives an insider’s view on closing on his home purchase.
LodeStar is among the 5000 fastest growing private companies of 2022. Not just in the mortgage and real estate industry, but in the entire national economy. We’ve just been named to the Inc. 5000!
It’s rare that we see any type of progress—of any kind—happen in a consistent, linear fashion. That’s certainly the case with DEI efforts in our space. They’re happening. Progress is taking place.
Horace doesn’t want to talk about how the Fed raised rates.
It’s a poorly-kept secret that more than a few LOs still believe that it’s all about the rate, the rate and the rate—nothing more. And yet, somehow, the best LOs manage to produce in any market.
There are two factors that “traditionalist” employers in any industry—but especially a highly-traditional industry like ours—had better absorb quickly. First, almost half of the global workforce is thinking about quitting. Second, there’s no safety in homogeneity