According to mortgage consultant Joe Garrett, some former top dogs at Option One Mortgage Corp. are forming a new company. Garrett, in his blog, writes that he saw an email solicitation. “They're looking for new brokers, and get this, they specifically advertise that there are '…no credit checks (on the mortgage broker) and no references needed.'" Option One was once the property of the publicly traded H&R Block which closed the company down and sold off what it could to others. During its glory days OOMC was a top ranked subprime and alt-A lender/servicer. WL Ross & Co. wound up with some of its servicing rights…
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Roughly a third of homeowners with a mortgage rate less than 6% would not give up their rate for any reason, according to a survey of 1,000 mortgage holders.
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In other news, Better Mortgage completed warehouse renewals and Wolters Kluwer provided a new form of access to its digital vault platform for secured parties.
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A United Wholesale Mortgage executive stepped in to defend a claim against the company, as consumers pelt the industry with more spam call complaints.
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Adam Boyd, a veteran financial services executive with more than 25 years of experience, will head the growth of Rate's consumer lending platform.
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Washington State charged Newrez after a consumer investigation, with the notice following recent enforcement action against Luminate Home Loans.
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Mike Kortas will be adding a separate mortgage servicing company and hiring NEXA loan officers to assist with the process and give them customer insights.
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