The Mortgage Reports Blog

The Mortgage Reports : The System Is Down

I'm on blogging leave for the rest of the week.

For mortgage questions on your purchase or refinance, email me anytime.  My contact information is at right.

In the meanwhile, keep yourself entertained with Strongbad.

The Mortgage Reports : Featured TypePad Blog

Each morning, I'm here with new blog content for my loyal readers, but it's TypePad's blogging platform that is here for me.

I rely on TypePad for its simplicity and reliability.  I know but one other blogging company that does as much for its members.

And that's why I'm honored (and humbled) that TypePad hand-picked The Mortgage Reports as a featured weblog on its Web site today.

If you're a first-time visitor here, best thing to do is get the daily news by email.  And if you use Twitter, feel free to grab the mid-day updates, too.

Why You Should Work With The Dan Green Team

Working with a skilled professional really does make a difference.

Light Posting Alert : Week of September 10, 2007

Posting may be light this week.

Greg and I will be in Dublin taking home loan applications for a condo project in Chicago.  Better to gather the information face-to-face than to risk getting it wrong and putting an egg on the collective face of the developer, the real estate broker, and Mobium. 

In the meanwhile, enjoy a few reruns from the past few months:

• CBS Story On "Trigger Leads" Evokes Strong Emotions
• How The IRS Gets Paid On Your Short Sale
• What It Won't Mean To Your Mortgage Rate If The Fed Lowers The Fed Funds Rate
• The Credit Bureaus Can't Google Your Dating History
• The Quick Snap Back To 2002

Regardless, I am sure I'll post this week from Ireland anyway.  I can't quit you, after all.

The Dan Green Team Is Licensed For Mortgage Lending In Ohio

The Dan Green Team is now licensed to lend on residential homes in Ohio. 

If you live in Ohio and would like to receive market updates and other mail from my practice, send me an email and I'll make sure it happens. 

Our first newsletter will hit Ohio mailboxes next week.

Buying a home?  Already own a home?  Let me know about it -- we'll discuss your mortgage planning options together.

My email address is dan [at] dangreenteam [dot] com.

It's Nice To Be Recognized For a Job Well Done

 

Metro Chicago Real Estate recently awarded me a 2006 Lending Champion award.  40 loan officers were named from among the many tens of thousands of loan officers in the Chicagoland Region.

The criteria for the award -- as editor Dan Rafter noted -- were more than "hard work and market savvy".  Lending Champions have "a willingness to learn what it takes to become a complete financial advisor and, most of all, an ability to transform one-time clients into customers for life".

If you look at the most successful people in every industry, my hunch is that you would see a skill set similar to what Dan describes in each of them.  "Customers for life" is about trust and trust is a quality that you earn.  It isthe cornerstone of every successful relationship that lasts a lifetime.

Not only is a thrill to be recognized for my accomplishments, it's also humbling to see myself next to accomplished loan officers such as Michelle Bobart (my boss at Mobium), Jim Nuesslein and Barry Schwartz.

A Happy Wife Is A Happy Life, or My Wife Would Like You To Work With Her Husband

My wife has asked me to remind the readers of The Mortgage Reports:

I write blogs and I also write mortgages.

You know all about me by now:

• I am as knowledgeable about mortgages as anyone else in my industry
• I am as comfortable with purchases and remortgages
• I specialize in residential home loans
• I manage my clients' mortgages for the long-term -- our relationship only starts at closing.

If you're in want of some help with a home loan, email me your situation and we'll take it from there.

P.S.  I was expressly forbidden to use my wife's photo on the blog, so enjoy this Yahoo! avatar that looks a lot like her.