All Posts Tagged With: "standards"
How To Hold & Keep Your Job
Getting a job is not easy. There are the many interviews, the endless emails and resumes and the competition for the best spots. Amazingly enough, having gone through this marathon process, having been hired, the hiring process is not over. Huh? How can this be? In the U.S. today we have a surplus of job [...]
4Jan2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Should We Bring Back Ozzie & Harriet Loans?
It was in 2005 that Bill Dallas — then president and CEO of Ownit Mortgage Solutions, at the time on one of the 15 largest subprime mortgage lenders in the country — said “underwriting guidelines developed in the 1950s don’t address the needs of today’s homebuyers and brokers. Loans that met the needs of Ozzie [...]
26Sep2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Should You Expect Less Hiring A Real Estate Broker?
There’s little doubt that one of the hottest topics in the world of real estate regulation concerns the matter of minimum service requirements for brokers: Do they protect the public or are they simply a way to hold down competition from low-priced firms and new business models? During the past few years many states have [...]
19Sep2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Tough Lender Rules Meant To Limit Refinancing Options
Imagine driving along the highway. You run over some glass and a tire goes flat. It’s no problem because there’s a spare in the trunk. For the past several years real estate buyers have had a financial spare tire, a back-up system that was always there if times got tough. But now that spare tire [...]
26Aug2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
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