Episode 1: The Current Mortgage Crisis
Interview with mortgage lending industry expert Christopher Cruise. Blackinformant.com Podcast
Christopher Cruise, a residential mortgage loan originator (RMLO) since 1988, is a former Senior National Corporate Trainer and Curriculum Developer for one of the nation’s largest mortgage loan originator licensing-training companies. He now trains prospective and new residential mortgage loan originators around the country for www.loanofficerschool.com and www.lenderbootcamp.com
He began his mortgage loan career in Maine, continued that successful career in North Carolina, and now lives in Washington, DC – his base as he travels the country conducting training. He has trained LOs at the nation’s largest mortgage lenders, including Ameriquest, Countrywide/Full Spectrum, DiTech, GMAC, LendingTree, New Century, and PHH.
Chris has taught new and veteran originators how to pass licensing exams in such states as Illinois, North Carolina, and Utah.
Chris teaches both two-day and five-day bootcamps for prospective and new loan originators at mortgage companies and community colleges throughout the country, and he teaches state mortgage examiners around the country for the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (www.aarmr.org). He is also on the national faculty of the nation’s largest trainer of housing counselors – the Neighborhood Reinvestment Coalition/Neighborworks (www.nw.org).
Chris owned a mortgage brokerage for ten years in North Carolina and taught housing counselors there, as well, and for eight years he taught an 8-week-long homebuying course – which he designed – at community colleges in Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
He is one of the country’s most credentialed and experienced RMLOs and one of the nation’s most-experienced homebuyer educators and loan originator trainers.
He writes frequently for mortgage industry publications and is an invited speaker at industry seminars. He has studied, taught, and written about credit scoring for more than a decade. He has written extensively for mortgage trade publications such as Origination News, The Mortgage Press, and Internet Originator, and contributes regularly to www.BankRate.com
Chris has just completed writing training manuals for loan originators on the subjects of Appraisals and Surveys, Credit Scoring, The History of Mortgage Lending, Reverse Mortgage Loans, and Real Estate-related Insurances.
Chris is a member of the National and Maryland Associations of Mortgage Brokers. (Bio taken from his Amazon.com page)
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