New blog about the mortgage business and AHK!

Hey everyone I have finally got America Home Key Inc a blog where we can find out the latest happenings at corporate and the mortgage industry as a whole. I will also be including links to training available from AHK Corporate and through Marie Murry at Apex Training Group. We will try to get as many of our underwriters as we can to do guest blogs and tell us whats coming up as far changes they see and changes that have occurred and affect our daily lives as loan originators.

Our industry is steadily changing at a pace that hasn't been seen in many years and definitely not by the current generation of loan originators. This blog will be available to everyone at AHK to comment and respond to our posts. We will be posting new legislation that has been passed recently and what is in the pipeline for future legislation sessions that will change out industry. Most people I have talked to said the mandatory registration as a mortgage originator will be a good thing since everyone will be on the same level and we will not have Broker title versus the Loan Officer title. The only problem is everyone will have to get their 20-30 hours of Continuing Education in before the deadline.

Marie Murry with Apex Training Group has been doing her CE classes since the beginning of 2009 with America Home Key employees to get everyone ready for the change we saw coming. She has put on classes about Ethics and Morals to the most basic of How to Complete a 1003 Loan Application. These classes are open to everyone even if you do not work for AHK since everyone needs their required hours of CE.

Chas Winckel and Don Harris have really stepped up to try and fill the void that was left by Melinda Truitt who did so much for our company. Chas and Don have stressed that everyone needs to make sure they use Oasys and check your email on the system everyday to stay informed about changes. This blog will also be a place to keep up with changes but more on the public level.
Bryon Cunningham is probably one of the best DE underwriters in the FHA mortgage world and a make sense underwriter that wants to approve your loans. I know AHK is working to improve our rates and be able to bring us competitive pricing to help you close more loans.

I hope this blog is what everyone was talking about at our last meeting with Chas on Wednesday at our USDA Training and CE we had with Marie. Please comment and let me know what you guys want to see on the blog and where you want it to go from here.