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With everyone’s inbox filling up these days, there is still something to be said for the occasional direct mail piece. And to go one step further, our President Laura Brandao sits down every morning and hand-writes note cards to clients, thanking them for their business or congratulating them on a closed loan. This personal touch goes a long way…
American Financial Resources, Inc. (AFR) has been honored again as a Scotsman Guide Top Mortgage Lender. Recognized as one of the nation’s leading companies in overall volume, AFR ranked 10th in correspondent volume and moved up to 14th in wholesale volume.
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Have you heard? Adding to its growing roster of differentiated programs to support its lending partners, AFR is rolling out a simplified Conventional One-Time Close (OTC)/single-close construction program.
American Financial Resources, Inc. announces it will now offer a Conventional One-Time Close (OTC) program – in both its wholesale (AFR Wholesale) and retail (eLEND®) channels – which provides permanent financing for a new stick-built or manufactured home, that converts to a standard conventional mortgage once construction is completed. This offering rounds out the mortgage lender’s existing single-close construction financing suite of products and features.
On this episode of Mortgage X, Laura Brandao, President of American Financial Resources joins Christine and Frazier to talk about how she built a wholesale channel in 2007 from nothing, starting with just a desk, computer, one product, and her hustle to generate 200 million a month in production in one year.
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From industry-leading technology to professional expertise and convenient education opportunities, AFR offers an impressive range of value-added services to its broker partners: access to the secure online AFR Loan Center…
When buying a home, especially a first home, most buyers are focused on things like location, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and square footage. They’re most likely not thinking about things like current interest rates, loan underwriters, or whether or not their mortgage company is utilizing the latest technology. A company like American Financial Resources (AFR), however, is not only thinking about all the concerns of the homebuyer—bedrooms and bathrooms included—they’re also thinking about the latest innovations and how they can streamline processes for their clients.
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Bill Packer, AFR COO, explains why the absence or disparity of women and other minorities is problematic in the workplace; this lack of diversity creates blind spots on critical issues that impact the underrepresented groups. These blind spots lead to product, systems and marketing designs and programs that don’t appeal to these critical groups.
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DPA Advantage is designed to provide down payment assistance equal to 2% of the purchase price to a wide variety of eligible borrowers, including first-time home buyers, first-responders, educators, medical personnel, civil servants and military personnel.
