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Avoid Deceptive Banker/Broker Tricks, Tactics And Advertising Print E-mail

Unfortunately the mortgage industry is filled with unscrupulous lenders with a sales book full of tricks who use a variety of tactics to lure unsuspecting mortgage shoppers. Techniques vary widely and change constantly. It starts with an abundance of false advertising, bait and switch loan products, phony lowball rate quotes, great amounts of disinformation on key issues such as FICO scores and ratelocks, all the way too much more serious and eggregious tactics (as well as outright fraud) such as sending out false good estimates and extracting more points at the closing table. LoanShoppingPros can help you avoid and spot many of the worst offenders as well as help guide you, from the beginning, towards more reputable lenders and loan officers to put you as a mortgage shopper on more solid footing. Lenders who do not live up to our high standards are dropped from our network.

(Read Examples Of The Different Ways The Majority of Brokers and Bankers Try to Dupe You As A Consumer)



 

 
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