Canadian Mortgage Hangout May 2nd 2013

As we do every Thursday, the Canadian Mortgage Hangout aired today live at 10am PST/1pm EST. Now, for those of you who don't know... the Canadian Mortgage Hangout is a Google+ hangout where professionals who work in the mortgage industry get together on a weekly basis to discuss all things relevant (and sometimes irrelevant) to what we do for a living. The goal is to open conversation around issues that we all face, but might not have anyone to talk with. If we can work together as a broker channel, we can increase our level of professionalism and we can be seen as credible in the eyes of the public.

Contributors & Guests

• Gord McCallum - "Straight as 6 o'clock" @gordmccallum
• Michelle Mohr - "Best Smile in the Business" @invisPG
• Jackson Middleton - "Conspiracy Theory" @kiltedbroker
• Rob Campbell - "On the Phone" @therobcampbell
• Scott Dawson "Man about Town" @sdd

Summary

This week we had special guest Michelle Mohr from BC join us to talk about a unique situation where a lender surcharged a client on renewal for having 32 years remaining on an amortization. We try to get to the bottom of it, hopefully we can have a guest from that lender on next week.

We also discussed the mortgage broker news article where Ron De Silva finds his name on the RedX list - what is RedX you ask, we have no idea either, but are pretty sure it is a society like the one talked about in "So I Married an Axe Murderer". Gord also shared the following video as we discussed some of the "best clients" we get!

Have a great week everyone - hopefully catch you next week from Toronto where Gord and I will be attending the CMP Summit.