To conclude the LodeStar Lending Leaders Summer Session, we’re capping off our weeks-long discussion of how a mortgage insider buys a home. Alayna interviews Jim and his wife Sarah and invites them to reflect on their home buying process.

Horace considers the benefits of getting an app.

we still see way too much of the strategy that demands mass hiring in robust markets, then mass layoffs when those market cycles change.

Horace’s nephew suggests he try making TikToks. If only he knew what those were.

This week, Jim, Dave, and Alayna take an opportunity to pop some champagne and celebrate LodeStar placing on the 2022 Inc. Magazine list of America’s 5000 fastest growing private companies.

Welcome back to the Summer Session of LodeStar’s Lending Leaders! This week, Jim gives an insider’s view on closing on his home purchase.

LodeStar is among the 5000 fastest growing private companies of 2022. Not just in the mortgage and real estate industry, but in the entire national economy. We’ve just been named to the Inc. 5000!

Octavia is tired of all the bad mortgage news.