Kerry Cannon's (kmcannon) Blog

I heard on the news today about a woman who was 45 days behind on her mortgage. She has had her home for 20 years and is at the point of walking away. She said she tried to work with her lender, to no avail. She said she went online looking for a loss mitigation company to help her, but was told ...

Yesterday I was at a seminar. The speaker was a woman who was a real estate agent for 30 years, and is now a motivational speaker and trainer for real estate professionals. Her name is Daniel Kennedy. I found her seminar very interesting, with lots of great ideas and tips. Diversification in our ...

A couple of weeks ago one of our in house appraisers came to our office meeting to clue us in on the climate of things in the appraiser world. He had met with our Senior Underwriter and HUD's Senior Underwriter to get a bead on where their respective positions are regarding the declining markets ...

Let me first say that I only have one side of this story. However, I can't really imagine how the other side of the story could make much of a difference.I was on caravan last week and one of the agents riding in my car shared a story with us. She told us about a buyer deal that she had that was ...

I was just responding to a comment posted in the "Is this a typical loan scenario" blog. After reading this blog and the comments for the past several days, I realized that the tone was changing. Amidst my response, I realized an idea that I personally thought deserves a blog of its' own.I was co...

I came up with the greatest idea today. I was washing my hair, thinking about ways to increase business, and had a Eureka moment!! It was just the greatest idea I had had in a long time. I was so excited about it. It was all I could do to finish washing my hair. As I finished getting ready, I was...

Good morning to all. Hope your holiday's are joyful thus far.I have designed this blog to give lenders, brokers and Real Estate agents a centralized place to find and share solutions for those hard to close deals. Many real estate offices and brokers have lenders that they have worked with for ma...

Greeting fellow newbies and not so newbies....I don't know if you all have noticed or not....but the real estate and lending market has suffered a serious drought!!! Just kidding. Seriously though, business has fallen by the wayside. So, I have decided to transition over to originations. I have g...

Hey there....I know....long time no blog. I have been so busy gettin with the program. I have been developing my website and, am tickled pink to say, that it should be up and running by mid July. Woooo Hoooo!!!! I will be sure to let you all know when we have "lift off"! I gotta compose some page...

Boy did I have a blonde moment. No offense to blondes. My sister is blonde. However, every now and again, I have really really good ones. Somehow, I got my dates mixed up and my marketing manager and I went on Friday, instead of Saturday. We hae a really great time. It is a beautiful restaurant a...