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How To Survive a Career as a Mortgage Loan Officer
How do mortgage loan originators surviving these days during times of high mortgage rates, volatile and uncertain secondary mortgage markets, skyrocketing inflation numbers, one of the worst economies the United States is going through, surging home prices, politcial unrest and the media not reporting the truth, and uncertainty in the housing and mortgage markets. Home prices have increased 50% or more in the past three years, mortgage rates have gone from 3% to 8% in a 18 month timespan, mortgage companies closing their doors without much notice, and lenders laying off not just processors and underwriters but loan officers as well and cutting important expenses that should not be cut.
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How to survive a career in the mortgage industry today is a question often asked by many and is the talk among loan officers. The more important crucial question should be how is the mortgage industry doing today and how will the mortgage industry do in 2024 going forward? It is no rocket science that people in the mortgage and real estate industry are facing major uncertainty and volatility where over 100,000 loan officers exited the mortgage industry permanently. Mo<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color); background-color: var(–bb-content-background-color);”>rtgage applications hit a 28-year low, and loan officers are not seeing consistency in volume like normal. This is manily due to skyrocketing inflation, surging mortgage rates, consumer confidence uncertainty, lack of affordability and housing inventory. Home sales are not likely to return to 2022 levels until at least 2025, as homeowners remain hunkered down with low interest rate mortgages. It is very tough to be a loan officer today. Mortgage lenders across the nation are cutting down on expenses such as downsizing to smaller cheaper offices and encouraging Zoom and remote operations to save money and trim the budget. Mortgage lenders are cutting advertising and marketing budgets where many top producing loan officers who had the bells and whistles are no longer being treated like premadonas.