Actually, you may’ve built your mortgage company – and the government was there to help you, heaping on regulations to make sure you didn’t take advantage of any customers or didn’t have any rogue investment bankers or warehouse lenders take advantage of you. (Actually, there have been rogue operators in those sectors and Uncle Sam didn’t do much to prevent the damage.) In a perfect world, one where everyone is honest and discloses everything, mortgage bankers wouldn’t need regulations. But as we all know, that world does not exist. As for ‘your’ mortgage company, you may want to sell it over the next year to cash out and retire. Or you may want to buy someone else’s because you have substantial backing and see a golden opportunity as
