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Retrenchments could’ve been avoided had Tendele not flouted the public participation process between people whose land rights would be affected

Recently in Reno I overheard someone predict, “Forget Wikipedia. How about someone create ‘Liquorpedia’ with an encyclopedia of alcohol and drink recipes?” Remember when many “experts” predicted that a) Amazon was going to enter the lending biz and trample everyone, and b) Costco, after announcing it was offering mortgages to members, was going to drive any remaining lenders out of business? Neither has happened, and in fact, Costco has ended its mortgag...

Daylight Saving Time for much of the nation springs up Sunday morning, leading to plenty of grousing on Monday. What else is going on? “Please listen carefully, as our menu options have changed.” We’ve all heard that recording countless times when dialing a business. As an industry, our menu options have changed, or at least shifted. We all knew rates wouldn’t be in the 2’s forever and that refi burnout would take place. In our biz, lenders and MLOs continue to...

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. If you haven’t seen a video this one from a drone ) of the destruction in the South and Midwest, especially Kentucky, take a look. The loss of human and animal life is terrible, and it will take years to clean up and rebuild the communities. (Many in our industry have had some good years; The Better Business Bureau has a list of charities in those areas that can help.) The tornadoes that struck a few days ago were predicted, ...