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"That must be a huge conflict of interest" is the response I got recently from a high-volume agent whom I was trying to recruit to become a part-time mortgage loan officer for a national bank. He was responding to my suggestion that he could be both the agent and MLO on the same transaction. I ha...
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Can a Real Estate Agent be the Mortgage Loan Officer on the same transaction? Can a paperboy deliver two rival newspapers at the same time? When I was 7 years old in 1973, I zoomed the streets of my neighborhood delivering the Los Angeles Herald Examiner on my Raleigh Chopper. Within a few month...
04/28/2025
Two years ago, I held 25 state Mortgage Loan Officer licenses. To obtain these, I had to complete a pre-licensure course and pass the NMLS National Exam. The former was fairly easy, while the latter was hard. "I can do hard things" my 4-year old son often says. If he chooses to become a MLO when ...
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