Karen Deis

Have you made excuses to your friends, family and even yourself as to why you have to work late?

Here is a list of 18 items loan officers should consider when talking with their current or future employers, including who owns the database.

Here are 14 questions to ask yourself to develop your personal plan.

Some advice on learning to "play well with others" in your office.

A recent lawsuit contests the notion that the client database belongs to the loan officer, not the company.

Replacing .com with an industry-specific domain could mean a marketing boom for your business.

If only you had something like this to help you determine which real estate agents you’d get along with, who do business like you do, who you might not only become business partners with, but life-long friends.

Now that Jan. 10 has arrived with its many new regulations, some loan officers are thinking about whether they should stay in the mortgage business. There are other issues, however, that they should be thinking about as well.

What a trio of teenage boys can teach mortgage originators about running a business.

I talked with a loan officer who saw her glass as half-empty and asked Facebook, What do you do when you need more business? I received a ton of responses.

A list of trigger sentences that help you to write anything at anytime.

Seven tips for mortgage originators to use to source business from high-end home buyers.

Originators need new ways to get business.

Some wild and crazy letters of explanation from consumers to originators about having bad credit.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is constantly tweaking mortgage lending rules.

The Veterans Administration is the only government agency that has not made huge underwriting rule changes for several years now.

A laundry list of 33 items for managers to find answers for during the interview process.

Here are some items you should consider making a commitment not to undertake.

It’s one of the most powerful words in the English language!

Even though you work for a mortgage company, a bank or a credit union, in the mortgage loan origination business, you are truly “self-employed.”