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K. Has done with our covers now he likes to incorporate himself into legendary scenes of the beatles madonna and guitarist tom petty among many others while the results are a funny take on the original cover and theyre proving to be quite popular on instagram heres a closer look. Through is madonna bearing her next tune. Is david bowie up to. The russian instagram a chance he gives famous album covers a new back story and gives himself a role in music history. Thing for me to make people laugh and sometimes i think i managed to do that very purposely to comments that people write sometimes peo...

“What do hospital gowns and insurance policies have in common? You’re never covered as much as you think you are.” Although loan officers are not insurance experts, they are seeing the escalating cost of homeowner’s insurance impact affordability. (Last Friday’s TMC show focused on why insurance costs are rising.) Insuring homes is not the only issue, however. The average bill for the repair of an American vehicle is $4,437, and for an electric vehicle that is up to $6,618, about 49 percent higher. Collision insurance claims have increased 64 percent between ...

As attendees head home from the MBA’s IMB in New Orleans, plenty will be eating airplane chow. Maybe you should buy vittles on the ground instead. Given the breezy weather in New Orleans, leather jackets are out in force. Those in attendance are talking about several good things that happened in 2023, impacting mortgage rates and lenders. Inflation has come down, hourly wages outpaced inflation the last seven months of the year, we didn’t have a recession or a banking crisis that some “experts” expected. In fact, the S&P 500 was up 23 percent, and the ec...

Attention in the hallways in the early going at the IMB Conference in New Orleans is varied. LinkedIn traffic seems to have picked up for IMB companies like Draper and Kramer and Atlantic Bay, but that is hardly a scientific measure of companies being bought, buying, or exiting the business. (As always, direct questions to company representatives.) Credit costs and trigger leads are a big item; this Wednesday’s L1 Mortgage Matters session at 2PM ET features John Fleming, of John Fleming Law and the Texas MBA, discussing issues including a fine update on the trigger lead situation. Being...

Then VP Al Gore supposedly said, "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." Here in San Diego (current low temperatures in the high 40s), residents are very pleased about a new wastewater treatment plant being built south of the border, since SD has suffered beach closures for years due to effluent flowing north. Effluent aside, much of the mortgage talk here is about repurchases and early pay off penalties, as well as how independent mortgage banks (IMBs) have not been retaining ser...