Iva Burmeister's (loanofficeriva) Blog

 Old Fannie Mae, bitter old biddy that she is, finally opened her arms to more buyers with the Homepath financing program.  In economic times as these, Auntie's Fannie's kindnesses must be just the kind of blessing that are going to allow buyers that were previously unqualifiable to enter the rea...

Admit it.  You already think I'm creepy, right?  I don't blame you. I'm a married, thirty-something mother of two, building a new career as a WA loan officer, and the more I try to market to real estate agents, the more I feel like I'm verging on something dirty, if not outright illegal.  Right n...

It seems no matter how good my mortgage kung fu gets, I always get schooled one way or another.  Many times, it isn't that I have forgotten a technicality or missed a piece of documentation, it's managing, or mismanaging, my clients expectations. Early on, the Loan Assistant who was tasked with g...