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What Rockies Baseball and Mortgage Loans Have in Common – Part 2

Regular Season (Processing, Underwriting) During the regular season, experts give their 2 cents on how each team is doing, including the Rockies. Do they check out? Are they as good as people say they are? Are they winning games they need to win? How is each aspect of their game? The regular season is dissected by the sports commentators, but in the end, it comes down to numbers, stats and results. Of course there will be heartbreaking losses as well as some surprising wins, but you can only hope for the best and hope that the team backs up their talk with results...right? When the team DOES lose, they're asked for a further explanation. The season has its ups and downs, but we'll get through it together and hopefully make it far past the regular season. This is where our mortgage loan process differs. We try and make it as consistent as we can, with minimal heartbreaks or surprises. However, we know sometimes you can get "behind the count" with your credit score, ...

What Rockies Baseball and Mortgage Loans Have in Common

Colorado and downtown Denver are buzzing with baseball fever, as Rockies baseball starts once again. Even if you don't like baseball, you have to admit the atmosphere is quite contagious this time of year. The ambiance of springtime, the smell of food grilling on street corners, the sound of the crack of a bat and thousands of fans cheering, birds chirping and trees budding, all get us excited for the season. Maybe it's the feeling of a fresh start that really makes us happy this time of year (especially as a Rockies fan) – the thought that we get a clean slate, the sun is shining, the weather is warm once again, Rockies are off to a good start again, and we have more freedom and motivation to do the things we love to do outdoors. The same feeling is one you get when you can finally buy a new home for you and your family. It may seem like quite the curveball to apply baseball to mortgages, but stick with me through the stretch here, and you'll see we'll make sure not...