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LodeStar offers a variety of content through our Lending Lenders
podcast, our Data Reports, the "A Tale of Two Mortgages" webcomic, and LodeStar Report Newsletter.

Lending Leaders

The State of Marketing in the Mortgage Industry with Brian Rieger

Longtime friend of LodeStar, Brian Rieger, discusses marketing trends, the purchase market, and how to publish meaningful content.

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Lending Leaders

Looking Forward to Encompass Experience 2022

LodeStar’s newest salespeople, Wendy and Isaac are headed to Las Vegas for the 2022 ICE Mortgage Technology Encompass Experience Conference next week, and they couldn’t be more excited!

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Deeper Thoughts

Are Lenders Ready for the Modern Borrower?

We talk often here about the mortgage lending industry putting more emphasis on the borrower/consumer experience, and using better or more technology to support that. Well now, as the market begins to change a bit, the ability to do that could very well help lenders find success in spite of change. In fact, they’ll find success because of change, and their ability to embrace it.

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Loan Estimate Challenges

Texas’s Biggest LE Challenges

With 254 counties, Texas offers numerous opportunities for tax or fee variability, and thus, its fair share of LE challenges.

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Loan Estimate Challenges

Arizona’s Biggest LE Challenges

While much of its real estate transactional volume takes place in Maricopa County, the state of Arizona does offer one occasional challenge in the assembling of the LE.

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