The mortgage brokers we have remaining from the early days and still doing business here in Alexandria, MN are probably bordering entering “sainthood”. With the new RESPA laws and Dodd/Frank, the mortgage business has turned what used to go through a 2″ pipe into pushing it through a straw.

The folks we have today are getting us through the new rules and for that, we really do appreciate what you have done for the consumers and those of us in real estate.

Here is a list, although not complete, these have been the frontline in doing the bulk of the lending for the houses in the Alexandria area. My thank you and all of those you have done work for…

Cindy Maanum, Bremer Bank
Craig Tiffany, Bank of America
Doug Jossart, Bremer Bank
Jean Rice, Wells Fargo
Joanne Bliese, First State Bank
John Hexum, Gate City Bank
Kim Flowers, Wells Fargo
Kristen Eklund, Cardinal Mortgage
Ross Greenwaldt, Viking Savings Bank
Tracey Miller, Wells Fargo

There are many other lenders that have done real estate and for that I thank you. These folks are doing the secondary market loans…Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac; your FHA, RD, VA stuff. The hard work, with absolute mounds of paperwork…these folks are the ones that I have communicated with on more than one occasion for doing the bulk of my real estate business. Very hard workers, they are! I would make them all saints!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!