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Reverse Fortunes Weekly- Episode #63

Talking Points:

• RMs too expensive? Really?!
• Reverse mortgage subprime? How about sub-par journalism
• Consolidating debt with a reverse?
• Hint of future LTV reduction for reverses in Senate bill

Knowledge & Insight: Making an ad that works

Reverse Fortunes Weekly- Episode #62- August 3 2009

Top Stories:

• 1stReverse ceases operations
• Less of Fannie Mae purchases for RMs?
• Are lawmakers sending the wrong message to seniors?
• Generation Mortgage pulls out of New Hampshire in wake of YSP prohibition

Knowledge & Insight: Interview with Jim Veale. Do your really understand and correctly explain the HECM line of credit growth rate?

Reverse Fortunes Weekly - Episode #61

Top Stories:

• Financial Freedom investigated
• Seniors feel current net worth insufficient for retirment
• Appropriations bill may cut HECM proceeds
• Security One doubles its warehousing capacity

Knowledge & Insight: Challenging times: what a reverse mortgage originator can do

Reverse Fortunes Weekly- July 20th 2009

Top Stories:

• Big boom comes with big worries for industry
• Former originator facing hard time for theft
• Banking lobbyists "frantic" over reverse legislation in California

Knowledge & Insight: How to close a loan in thrity days or less

Reverse Fortunes Weekly- Episode #59

Top Stories:

• Senior Lending Network Halts all reverse mortgage applications
• New Hampshire bill causes YSP to disappear and more...
• Manufactured homes now OK in condo projects

Knowledge & Insight: "Attitude is Everything" Staying positive in negative times

Reverse Fortunes Weekly, July 6 2009

Top stories:

• 50 out of Four Million?
• Another acquisition
• Tax deferrment disappears in Golden state
• Rethinking "retirement"
• Tax consequences of RM foreclosure

Knowledge & Insight: Freedom, responsibility and captialism

Reverse Fortunes Weekly- Episode #57

Top Stories:

• Regulators comments stir controversy
• GAO to issue studies on reverse mortgages
• Industry veteran calls out HUD on non-recourse policy

Knowledge & Insight: Inbox Zero: Turning your email into an action-based system.

Reverse Fortunes Weekly Episode #56

Top Stories: Top Stories

• IG of HUD concerned about fraud
• California bill evolves
• Sour Grapes: Minnesota bill shot down
• Medically underwritten RMs

Knowledge & Insight Overcoming spring fever

Reverse Fortunes Weekly- June 15 2009

Top Stories:

• Unwinding the tax mess: reverse foreclosures
• FTC cracking down on false advertising
• NRMLA writes to Wall Street Journal
• HECM premiums UP or LTV DOWN?

Knowledge & Insight: Part two: Interview with Dennis Haber of Agency for Consumer Equity

Reverse Fortunes Weekly - June 9th, 2009

Top Stories:

• HUD counselors to be tested
• Reverse Credit Lines shrinking?
• Goodbye HECM CMT
• Security One secures new Wharehouse line

Knowledge & Insight: Interview with Dennis Haber of Agency for Consumer Equity (part 1/2)