By Doug Leever
President, MBA of Florida
Happy Holidays as we head into the Season and end of the year for 2022!
Mortgage Lenders and our customers have seen some dramatic changes over the past 4-5 years with interest rates (increases and decreases), record increases in home property values, massive loan production during the COVID 19 pandemic, and various other external factors that influence our Mortgage Industry!!! As we each stabilize our work environments as we head into the end of 2022, we want to continue to grow in our support of our industry. Change is coming and seems to be on-going each year in the Mortgage World—as we all know---- the only thing constant with the Mortgage Industry is.....Change!
The MBA both at the state and national level have continued to be very instrumental in supporting and developing within the Mortgage industry through our Networking opportunities, educational events and through Advocacy, locally and at the national level. All very critical to be successful in this Industry-you can always learn-and now more than ever is very important!!!
We are finalizing events for 2023 and am very excited to say we will have our First Loan Officer Summit for Florida in February to help support our loan originators in ‘what they need to do or improve on to be successful in 2023. We want them to leave this event with some best practices, new ideas, and ways that you can be more successful in today’s mortgage environment!
We are also in the planning stages for our 19th Annual Secondary Market Conference and 69th Annual Convention in June! The last two years events have been exceptional, and we fully expect to have another outstanding MBA event this upcoming year!!
Great success over the years here with the MBA through...
Networking—both at the State and Local Chapter levels—excellent opportunities to meet other mortgage professionals within the State of Florida! Learning about new technology, what are best practices with others in the Mortgage Industry, what works and does not work, how can we do better as business partners, lenders, servicers, etc.
Education—We held a webinar in September and looking forward to our in-person event in February! Our Education Committee co-chairs are Beth Larson and Dustin Owen. We thank them for moving us forward with great ideas.
Membership—There is good progress this year on developing our membership for the State of Florida—our co-chairs are Robert Villalon and Sandy Garcia, who we thank for keeping up the solid base of this association, our members!
Advocacy—our Legislative Representative, Eric Prutsman continues to bring his ‘A- game’ in Tallahassee and has been representing the MBA for 23 years. We look forward to hearing further updates and initiatives that affect our Mortgage Industry and what we as members of the MBA of Florida can do to support and continue to make our voices heard. Contributing to the Florida Political Action Committee continues to develop and help support our concerns and interests in the sessions in Tallahassee. Our MPAC representative is Deborah Moore. She stresses to keep the donations coming! Click Here to learn more about MPAC and to donate.
Yvette Clermont was able to attend the National Convention recently and provided some great take-a-ways from the event, written directly below. She did an awesome job representing herself and the MBA of Florida. We thank you Yvette for bringing us your experience.
And special thanks to our volunteer leadership that serve on our various committees, Executive Board and Board of Directors—both locally and at the state level. We would not be able to move forward without your efforts and time with your "second job" in the MBAF.
Please have a safe Holiday Season with friends and family!
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