Ā RES.NET is the American Association of Private Lenders' newest Member Discount partner. The enterprise application allows lenders to create customizable workflows for REO, Loss Mitigation, Short Sale, Deed-In-Lieu, Pre-foreclosure, and Valuations. Its suite of portals is designed to work independently or in tandem, providing a seamless solution in any kind of lending operation. Through [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Leading private lender association and nationally licensed valuations and default services provider partner to meet private lendersā increasing demand for default management services LAKE FOREST, Calif., Aug. 26, 2020 ā RES.NET, a technology platform specializing in mortgage banking default, and The American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL), the oldest association representing the [...]
Building on the success the company has had in transforming access to real estate debt, the company is launching the Credit Opportunity Fund to match investor demand with current market opportunities. LOS ANGELES, Calif.--August 19, 2020 ā PeerStreet, a platform for investing in real estate backed loans, today announced that it is launching a new [...]
Fun Fact #1: Vermont, the 14th state admitted to the union in 1790, gets its name from "montagne verte" (French for green mountain) after the state's gorgeous Green Mountains. Fun Fact #2: We learned this because Jacob Therrien, a business development specialist at Bridge Loan Network, grew up around Vermont's mountains. Those origins gave him [...]
Visit aaplonline.com/education-advisory-committee for more information about our Education Committee. Whatās next? Those two syllables are enough to give any in-the-know lender heartburn: Futureproofing is a dichotomy between an eye-rolling salvo and the secret dream for private lenders everywhere. We balance on a line between the demand of the housing market and the ability of traditional [...]
Helping clients build wealth and staying ahead of industry change motivate the Forino brothers. Itās said that opposites attract. In the case of Lou and Raffaele Forino, their completely different business backgrounds have benefited them as theyāve built Gauntlet Funding. The brothers were born and raised in Queens, New York. They chose careers in different [...]
Visit aaplonline.com/ethics for more on our Code of Ethics Mike Hanna, Managing Partner, Investmark Mortgage, LLC āBait and switchā lending and truth in advertising are the top ethical challenges in the marketplace today. There are more lenders now than there were just a few years ago, and the lending environment has become hypercompetitive in some [...]
Traveling and living internationally helped Michael Mikhail āfind himselfāāand gave him the mindset to discover his calling. For some entrepreneurs, the ultimate goal is creating a company that can run just as successfully without them as with them. Michael Mikhail, founder and CEO of Stratton Equities, sees his business completely differently. āIām never absent. I [...]
Kansas City, Missouri - April 15, 2020 ā The American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) is excited to announce the launch of its first-ever online designation course, Certified Fund Manager. AAPL designation courses prior to the launch have only been available as in-person courses alongside the associationās Annual Conference and select partner events. āBringing CFM [...]
During a workout cool-down (we're not quite sure Loren knows what that actually means), what started as an attempt to "see how fast [he] could go" on the indoor rowing machine led Loren Howard, founder and president of Prime Plus Mortgages to break the 20-year world record for indoor rowing (well, three world records, but [...]
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