OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Independent mortgage broker Terry Silver of Jeffersonville, IN and Tersha Inc. was selected the winner of a la mode, inc.’s Rolex™ giveaway in a drawing of mortgage professionals who had tried a demo Mortgage XSite in conjunction with the launch of Mortgage XSites websites for mortgage professionals in June. “I was […]
Fifteen years ago this week the first President Bush signed into law the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), Title XI of which created today’s appraiser regulatory structure, administered by the states to national standards maintained by the Appraisal Foundation and its boards. Observers of and participants in FIRREA’s regulatory scheme […]
Fueled by low mortgage rates, alternative loan programs and baby boomers in their peak-earnings years, the second home market is experiencing a boom of its own, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. In fact, the second-home market, which includes vacation homes and investment property, now makes up about 5-6 percent of all homes sold […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Agoura Hills, California-based Lenders Financial Services (LFS), a unit of Fiserv, Inc. and a national asset management and REO disposition service provider for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders, recently completed a custom plugin for a la mode’s Mercury Desktop product for its nationwide roster of real estate appraisers. Members of […]
You don’t like to answer a lot of very elementary questions. You don’t want Joe Homeowner telling you how to do your job (it’s bad enough when mortgage brokers and REALTORs® do). You don’t want payment headaches from a lot of different, individual clients who aren’t going to need your services again and so might […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — a la mode, inc., the nation’s leading software and technology developer for real estate professionals, celebrated its 19th anniversary this month. Begun in 1985 with the simple idea that real estate appraisers could use new “personal computer” technolgy to more quickly and efficiently complete appraisal reports, today the company serves more […]
Occasionally we ask you to write us with your thoughts or experiences on an issue. Every now and then, a lot of you will write us in response to an article we’ve run even if we don’t ask. It’s then that we know the subject has hit a particular nerve. We received a lot of […]
Last week we talked about Windows XP and how it’s an absolute must to move away from the older, slower operating systems, like Windows 98. You can also avoid headaches – literally and figuratively – with a larger monitor, many of you told us. When you stare at a computer monitor for hours at a […]
One of the many things that sets a la mode apart is our Hands On Training (HOT) sessions, held here in our Oklahoma City headquarters. We have a training room built with HOT in mind: 28 workstations with Dell Pentium 1.7 GHz PCs with XP Professional face a whiteboard/projection screen. Coffee, soda, water, lunch and […]
A buzzword in mortgage lending lately is “bundling,” often called “bundled services.” Companies that make their money from mortgage originators who order ancillary products and services necessary for mortgage production have seemingly all decided that everything they do needs to have a package price now. Old Republic Title announced last week it “will leverage the […]
