GoodLife Dwelling Loans, dba of Bellevue, Wash.-based Conventional Mortgage Acceptance Company (TMAC), introduced this week that it has launched a brand new retail reverse mortgage division so as to add to its current efforts within the wholesale house.
GoodLife is likely one of the main Dwelling Fairness Conversion Mortgage (HECM) lenders on the wholesale facet, in addition to a serious issuer of Ginnie Mae HECM-backed Securities (HMBS). The corporate known as the launch of the brand new division a “important milestone” because it goals to carry its workforce of reverse mortgage trade veterans extra on to the retail lending channel.
The division at current consists primarily of 4 mortgage officers. Two of them, Linda Weilert and Catalina Gonzalez, had beforehand served at Open Mortgage’s reverse division previous to its closure in late 2023.
For Weilert, a 17-year reverse mortgage trade veteran, it’s nonetheless early days for the brand new division’s operations however she advised HousingWire’s Reverse Mortgage Day by day (RMD) that the expertise thus far has been a optimistic one.
“The company management has been excellent,” she stated when reached on Friday. “They’re supportive, dedicated to the retail house and the tradition is nice. Processing and underwriting may be very skilled. We’re the primary mortgage originators within the retail house for them, and we’re hoping to make an impression in it. They’ve been very supportive, and I’m honored to be on this subsequent chapter with them.”
The division additionally consists of LOs Marilyn Brown Ross and Chris Weilert. All advised, they collectively possess “over 40 years of trade expertise, deep product data and a observe report of success serving seniors throughout the nation,” the corporate stated.
Anthony Gaglione, senior advertising and marketing supervisor at TMAC, stated that hiring the proper individuals has been a core precedence as the corporate has labored to face the retail division up.
“We’ve employed the perfect and brightest, most profitable reverse mortgage specialists,” Gaglione stated in a ready assertion. “This new retail division is constructed on a basis of integrity, belief and management, and we’re excited to carry our wholesale experience to shoppers by this dynamic workforce.”
The corporate’s place as a Ginnie Mae issuer provides it market differentiation, it stated, and the retail division will observe the identical ideas which have guided its wholesale efforts. The division can be searching for to draw new originator expertise, Gaglione added.
“We provide probably the most aggressive compensation bundle within the trade,” he claimed. “If you happen to’re a reverse mortgage skilled closing 10 or extra reverse mortgages yearly who needs to be a part of a high-performance, forward-thinking group, we need to hear from you.”
GoodLife/TMAC is an lively member of the Nationwide Reverse Mortgage Lenders Affiliation (NRMLA). Brett Dunn, chief funding and chief working officer on the firm, was elected because the treasurer of the NRMLA board final fall.
