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1015 NE Adams Street Suite 101 • McMinnville, OR 97128 Ken Whiting NMLS 299572 Mann Mtg NMLS 2550 Phone: 503-435-2087 • Fax: 503-472-0627 Email: ken.whiting@mannmortgage.com Web Page: www.kenwhiting.mannmortgage.com
MORTGAGES IN 2020: IS THIS THE NEW NORM? .... Did We Ever Return to the Old Norm After the Great Recession? Ken Whiting
Branch Manager Mann Mortgage LLC of McMinnville
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es, people are still buying homes, realizing their dreams and finally having that dream home constructed. And rates are so good that everyone who isn’t buying a home seems to be refinancing one. This doesn’t sound like times of despair - staying at home, wearing masks everywhere you go. But it seems to be the ‘new norm’, for now. Mortgage professionals wake up, grab a cup of coffee, get cleaned up, and off to work they go ….. typically to the dining room table, where they will spend the rest of the day talking with clients, processors, underwriters, realtors and title companies. It is the same routine as before, just a little different scenery. In my house, my wife is working from home in our spare bedroom/office, my son is finishing his senior year at Linfield College in his bedroom, and I called ‘Dibs’ on the dining room. Oops, I forgot to mention my audience - our three cats that are either constantly begging for attention, food, or both.
