At the advice of the listing agent, we used her favorite lender Darran Anthony from Suntrust.

My clients were given endless last minute excuses for 3 days, and come the closing day, the excuses continued. We did not close on the closing day. I can't remember one other closing that I have done, that didn't happen on time.

So we called Darran Anthony at 6pm. Got him all the necessary paperwork that night. Made a phone call at 9:15am, got another degree of confidence that he could do it (he did 3 same-day loans the day before). I dropped his name to the sellers closing agent and he said "oh if it is Darran, and he says it will happen, it will happen." At 12 I met the appraiser at the house. At 12:30 we got the "I'd put it at 95%" from Darran. With that we fired the "any minute now" Lending Tree lender.

We showed up for closing at Monarch Title (also a key ingredient for an immediate turn around) at 3:30 and my clients began signing at 3:45pm.

All during the most crazy week in Wall Street in decades. And I think they got a great rate (the Internet lender tacked on PMI at the last second)

So thanks Darran (not Darren, but Darran)
Frank Borges LL0SA- Broker FranklyRealty.com