by Dustan Woodhouse | Aug 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
What If Interest Rates Triple? Rather than make noise about how ‘rates can only go up’ – which is a ridiculous statement. Rates can go any one of 3 ways at any time; up, down, or flat. And when they do move, it is typically in small increments. Although I guarantee...
by Dustan Woodhouse | Jul 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Every year, since always it seems, there are headlines warning us about interest rates. Interest rates about to rise. ‘Prepare For Interest Rate Shock’, being one of my local favourites, as the Bank Of Canada proceed to cut rates 0.25% the very next day. The main...
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 | Jun 12, 2021 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 2
An excerpt from Volume 2 of Be the Better Broker. Every interaction you have with an underwriter, a BDM, a team lead, a lender VP and so on during the processing of a file—even just in a casual conversation at a trade show—is you either building or burning bridges....
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...
