by Dustan Woodhouse | Jun 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
A short mortgage story. Maybe a lesson or two gleaned, possibly even a useful strategy in dealing with challenging clients. The set up… Working with the clients for 2 yrs. 500+ emails. Countless texts. Dozens and dozens of calls… mostly in the evenings and on...
by Dustan Woodhouse | Jun 18, 2021 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 3
An excerpt from Chapter 77 of Be the Better Broker, Volume 3. Lenders vary. You don’t need to know every single lender’s products and guidelines to be successful. You need somewhere between three and seven lenders or lender connections. Ninety percent of your business...
by Dustan Woodhouse | May 30, 2021 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 2
An excerpt from Chapter 29, Volume 2 of Be the Better Broker. During one of the first business-planning meetings I ever attended at my original brokerage, one of the Brokers stood up and made a comment that has stuck with me to this day. “If you’re just starting out...
by Dustan Woodhouse | May 15, 2021 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 1
I can recall one Mortgage Broker saying to me upon exiting the business after less than four years, “I can only conclude that people do not like me.” This was a person paying not just an economic toll, but clearly an emotional one as well. On paper this Broker had...
by Dustan Woodhouse | May 9, 2021 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 2
Few among us look forward to making cold calls. We know what it’s like to be on the receiving end. When someone cold-calls me, he is intruding on my life without an invitation. He is interrupting whatever I may be doing. This can bring out a side of me that is abrupt,...
