Posts by Matthew Kelly

If your scratching your head wondering how google can help you sell a home faster, and get more listings, the release of their recent web browser “Chrome” and your content might just be answer.
I was excited to download the new version of Google Chrome on my new Dell 1420 Laptop.  Thought I would test the limits of [...]

From CNN today:
President Bush on Wednesday signed into law a sweeping housing bill that aims to boost the struggling housing market and bolster mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Next step is for Investors, Wall Street and HUD to develop guidelines for the purchase of loans that fall into this category.
Benefits of the new [...]

Mike Price with MLBroadcast and I were regulars at Inman for several years. It was nice to go back after a several year hiatus. But as Mike says…I digress.
The thing that I enjoyed the most at Inman was the energy. Years ago when I attended people leaned back in their chairs and [...]

I’ll be honest about Facebook.
When I initially set up my profile several months ago I didn’t find it useful, interesting, or fun. I promoted it as another web site our Loan Officers needed to have in order to increase their ability to connect with someone.
I didn’t know as many people on Facebook as I [...]

I don’t get the opportunity to originate many loans due to my other responsibilities, so was really excited to be able to play around on the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace. So excited that when I got on line around 5:00 am and saw the announcement, I felt like it was Christmas morning and I had [...]

In any given month we touch several thousand leads from a variety of sources. New leads are allocated in real time to our loan officers during their assigned shift based on a variety of factors including the states they are licensed in. To manage this volume, we use Marksman, a CRM tool developed by [...]

How is technology used to quote mortgage rates?
The Old Way
In the past loan officers received rate information by fax or email. These rates sheets would include base pricing on one sheet and another sheet would represent “adjustments”. These adjustments would include price adjustments for loan specifics like property state, credit score, loan to value ratio [...]