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Loan officers use their knowledge of the lending process to provide clients with the type of loan that best meets their needs. Loan officers analyze credit scores, prepare loan applications, and compute loan payments. They refinance existing loans and provide sub-prime loans to borrowers with poor credit histories.
Loan officers are generally paid on a commission basis. They typically receive around one percent of a loan's total amount. A loan officer's income is directly tied to his or her effort and ability to approve a client's loan application. Most loan officers make about $50,000 per year, but their income potential is unlimited.
Successful loan officers are persuasive and have strong negotiating skills. They are good with numbers and pay attention to details. If this describes you, a loan officer training program can give you the knowledge you need to turn your natural talents into a rewarding career.
Many loan officers have undergraduate degrees in business, economics, or accounting. However, a degree is not necessary to become a loan officer. Training seminars, correspondence courses, and certification programs can provide job seekers with the skills they need enter this profession.
Most loan officer training programs cover how to process a loan application, comply with federal mortgage regulations, and compare the various types of loan products. Some loan officer training programs will provide sales and marketing advice for loan officers who wish to open their own businesses. Most instructors in loan officer training programs have several years of industry experience and are ideally experts in their field.
No two loan officer training programs are alike. Some training programs offer classroom instruction during the weekend and evening hours, while others specialize in print or web-based distance learning. Some loan officer training programs provide mentors, job placement services, and financial aid for their students. Trade publications, your state's regulatory agency, and local professional associations can help you select the loan officer training program that is most appropriate for your needs.
There are no specific licensing requirements for loan officers who work in banks or credit unions, but licensing requirements for loan officers who work in mortgage banks or brokerages are determined on a state by state basis. Some states require that loan officers pass a written examination and submit to criminal background and credit check before obtaining a license. Other states do not require a loan officer to be licensed if his or her employer is fully licensed. Loan officer licenses are generally not transferable; a loan officer must be licensed in every state in which he or she wishes to conduct business.
It is your responsibility to determine if a loan officer training program will meet your state's licensing requirements. If you wish to open your own business, you may also need to have a mortgage broker's license. Mortgage brokers are typically required to maintain a surety bond of up to $100,000 and a specific net worth of up to $50,000. They may also be required to have a certain amount of previous lending experience.This one’s for the connoisseurs. At John Seal’s “Picture in Picture,” you’ll find references to Claude Monet’s The Manneporte (Étretat) (1883), Henri Rousseau’s Exotic Landscape (1910) and René Magritte’s The Human Condition (1933–35). Magritte, of “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” infamy, might be the forefather of this exhibition; “the treachery of images” is certainly a fitting thesis here.
Pictures of pictures have existed for nearly four hundred years, according to the gallery, which locates the genre’s beginnings in 17th-century Antwerp. Its apotheosis—and, maybe, mind-bendingly, its opposite—was that impish, trickster fad of art history, trompe l’oeil, literally, “deceive the eye.” Trompe l’oeil here is taken to an uncanny, even cruel, extreme—if, like me, you were fooled and chagrined. Shadows tumble on the wind like loose pages from a book (all 2021) depicts an empty frame against a scarred white wall, a postcard-like image pinned in the center with a thumbtack, all rendered in oil paint. Similarly, Falling into the Present looks, first, to be a photoshopped photograph; then, a non-photoshopped-photograph; then, finally, the oil painting it actually is.
John Seal, You cannot see us us watching you, though we do, 2021. Oil on canvas, 33 x 25 inches.UTZ and Rainforest Alliance to merge
The new organization will create a single agriculture sustainability standard, it will simplify the certification process and continue to improve livelihoods for farmers and forest communities.
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The new organization will create a single agriculture sustainability standard, it will simplify the certification process and continue to improve livelihoods for farmers and forest communities..
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If women farmers had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase their yields by 20-30%. That’s why UTZ and Coffee Quality Institute’s Partnership for Gender Equity are motivating change in the Nicaraguan coffee industry.
Why use a sustainability standard? A new report commissioned by ISEAL Alliance, the sustainability standards membership group, shows the clear business benefits of certification: from reduced risk, to improved reputation and market access.
The UTZ/Rainforest Alliance merger is an exciting step towards a world where business, sustainability and profit can have equal value. Justin Leavenworth, Global Markets Director of UTZ, explains more.
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The ISEAL Integrated Pest Management (IPM) coalition is pleased to announce the launch of the Pesticide Database. The data base contains a list of prohibited or restricted pesticides with information on their hazards and restriction status according to each standard system part of the IPM coalition. Through this data base, the IPM coalition aims to […]
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Meet us at the following events, or join one of our webinarsThe Freedom of Information Act has proven to be an very useful tool for government transparency over the last four decades. Traditionally, this information has always been revealed on paper, with the sections deemed "sensitive" redacted from the document with permanent market.
However, today is a new day, and now most documents are kept in a fancy non-editable format like PDF anyway, so when the TSA recently decided to publish their Screening Management Standard Operating Procedure online (outside of a FOIA request, go government transparency), they decide to redact it by doing what was familiar: drawing over the sensitive data using black boxes.
Of course, in a OCR'd PDF, that doesn't actually block any data. You can still highlight and paste the data, since it's still in the text, even though you can't see it. Great job, TSA.
The original document's been pulled, but the good folks over at Cryptome have the document, with the black boxes replaced by red ones so you can still see all the data, which I'm perfectly okay with. This information really has no business being classified as sensitive, but that's my opinion, I guess.
So, when you're going to be redacting information from a document, especially one you're willingly offering. You might want to make sure you've actually kept the information you want to keep secret, secret.by Peaking Legoman
Why is it that movie tie-ins consistently fail to live up to their potential? Is it so much to ask for just ONE decent and respectable videogame that is based on an existing movie license? When I started playing The Force Unleashed I was hoping that it would be different to every other movie tie-in game ever made. Most games that are based on an existing film license use the interactive medium of video games as a platform to craft another experience based in the universe of the film. In other words, the story and universe comes first and the game second. While I initially had hopes that The Force Unleashed was unique in as much as it used the existing universe of a movie as a starting point to create a compelling gaming experience (the opposite of most movie games), at the end of the day it’s no different than any other movie-based game out there.
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TFU is essentially a 3rd person action game with some light RPG elements at play in the form of a levelling system for your skills and force powers. Your primary tools of destruction are the mandatory Light Saber for melee combat, and access to ‘The Force’ for typical magic-type attacks. The Light Saber combat is generally quite enjoyable with a healthy selection of combos at your disposal that utilise different force powers in conjuction with your saber attacks