MMLA Events - make your plans now to attend these educational and social events!

Be sure to visit our website calendar for all of the 2022 event dates.    Check back often for updates!

  March 2, SE Chapter "Meet-Up" Happy Hour   Come by, have a drink and say hi!

Get the motivation and information you need to for the Spring/Summer Sales Season.  It will be a fully interactive and engaging experience with great speakers. Topics include:  Great Customer Service, Non-QM lending, Lending in the Age of Fintech, and The 24 Hour LO.  Hope to see you LIVE AND IN PERSON March 9th!!   Sponsorship and exhibit opportunities available as well. Click here for all the details and to reserve your spot today!

REGISTER BY MARCH 1, BEFORE THE PRICE INCREASES!  Don't miss it and invite your sales team, customers and colleagues!

Detroit Athletic Club
May 23, 2022

Headline Sponsor: 
The Michigan Mortgage Lenders Association (MMLA) is proud to host this mPower event!  MBA Promoting Opportunities for Women to Extend their Reach! It will be a half-day with networking, lunch, nationally recognized motivational keynote speaker, followed by a dynamic industry leadership panel.  We are also privileged to hold this event at the exclusive, members only Detroit Athletic Club (DAC) so make your plans now to attend and invite your team!   

Meet Keynote Speaker Dr. Meg Myers Morgan

Dr. Meg Myers Morgan is an award-winning author, college professor, and certified executive coach. Her latest book, Everything is Negotiable (Seal Press, 2018)--based on her notable TEDx Talk--is a best-seller and has been translated in multiple languages. Meg holds a PhD and an MPA from the University of Oklahoma and is certified in executive coaching from Columbia University. Watch this intro video by Dr. Meg!!

Spotlight your company at this highly attended event. Click here to reserve your spot and to register to attend.

 
MMLA Annual Lending Conference
 The Future is Bright!
 August 3 - 5, 2022
 Amway Grand Plaza Hotel & Confernce Center
 Grand Rapids, MI

Save the date and plan to attend this great event!  Here are some preliminary details:
 - NEW this year - we will be offering 8 hour Con-ed class for Loan Officers on August 3, prior to the opening of the conference  
 - CEO Summit - special invite only, high level round table discussion for lenders only, moderated by Rob Chrisman
 - Breakout concurrent meeting tracks for Loan Officers and Opps/managent
 - Speakers include:  MBA Chairman Kristy Fercho, Rob Chrisman, award-winning inspirational speaker and author Hoan Do, more....
 - Evening pub crawl to check out Grand Rapids new beer scene
 - Fun reception dinner at Grand Rapids Public Museum
 - Exhibitor area to meet with vendors who can help you and your business
 - SO MUCH MORE! 

CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE DETAILS SO FAR - INCLUDING HOTEL RESERVATION INFO... BOOK NOW BEFORE THE HOTEL IS SOLD OUT! 

Watch this video by Katrina Cole, Conference Chair, to see what to expect:

Congratulations to old Star Financial Mortgage Groupfor being selected as a recipient of a 2022 ICE Mortgage Technology Innovation award in the data driver category

Join us in welcoming Pete Torrey of Cardinal Financial as a new President's Club Corporate Partner!

Thanks to Class Valuation for being a Speaker Sponsor at our Sales & Technology Symposium on March 9th!

Do you have news to spotlight?  Send it to [email protected]

Spike in Foreclosure Activity Not a Surprise  

Freddie Mac Announces Direct Deposit Assessment Tool

The Fannie Mae February Selling Guide update, Announcement SEL-2022-01

Fannie Mae updated LL-2021-03, Impact of COVID-19 on Originations

Fannie Mae’s Research Publication - Appraising the Appraisal

Fannie Mae Desktop Underwriter/Desktop Originator Integration Impact Memo

GSEs' Net Worth Surged in 2021

Feds Scold Appraisal Regulator Over Weak Anti-Bias Guidance

CFPB Launches New Way for the Public to Petition the Agency for Action

CFPB Compliance Bulletin 2022-02: EFT Act’s Compulsory Use Prohibition and Government Benefit Accounts

CFPB publishes 2022 Reportable HMDA Data Reference Chart

Attention Mortgage Sales Professionals! Do you want to learn new ways to help increase your sales in time for the Spring home buying season? Then you will want to attend our upcoming, March 9 MMLA Annual Sales & Technology Symposium! Hear from great speakers and visit with exhibitors who can help you achieve your goals in 2022 and beyond!

Make sure you register before the event is sold out! 

       

Thanks to Rob Chrisman for this one:

There was a Scottish painter named Smokey Macgregor who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.
As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings.
Smokey put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job. So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine.
Well, Smokey was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Smokey clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.
Smokey was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried, "Oh, God, oh God, forgive me! What should I do?"
And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke:

"Repaint! Repaint!”