MORTGAGE BROKER · CALIFORNIA & OREGONI’ll give you my real number on day one.
I price your file the way an underwriter is going to read it — because for years, that was my job. The number I open with is the number I intend to close at.
$121M ORIGINATED, VERIFIABLE ON MODEX · ~$750M PROCESSED · 234 LENDERS VIA LOAN FACTORY · LICENSED IN CA + ORTHE BOOKI don’t have a specialty. That’s deliberate.
Last year I closed first-time buyers, home equity, an FHA refinance, conventional investment properties, DSCR purchases and refinances, and a fix-and-flip.
That range is the point. When you have priced enough different files, you stop guessing about where a new one belongs.
WHO YOU ARE ACTUALLY TALKING TOI used to be the reason loans didn’t close.
For several years I was a processor. My job was taking other people’s files through underwriting, which mostly meant finding out why they wouldn’t make it. Roughly $750 million in loans crossed my desk that way.
That is why my opening number tends to hold. I am not being optimistic, I am reading your file the way the underwriter is about to.