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- 0:00Hey, what's up listeners, Jeff Zimfer. Welcome to another episode of the Mortgage Marketing
- 0:08Radio podcast. So thrilled you are tuning in today. As we wind down the year, it is December
- 0:1519th when I'm recording this introduction. And before we get into this week's special
- 0:19guest and episode, I wanted to kind of do a quick recap, you know, kind of like a speed
- 0:26recap of some of the most successful stories, testimonials, results that mortgage professionals
- 0:36around the country. I've been privileged to to be a part of their journey over this past
- 0:40year and help, you know, I'll come along side them, if you will, as I guess I'll take
- 0:47the role and I, you know, take it humbly, but proudly the role of coach and mentor and
- 0:54guide, if you will, I think it's probably the one I associate with, you know, guide somebody
- 0:59who helps show you the way you already have within you the capabilities. And sometimes
- 1:06we just need some direction and focus and a path laid out forward and someone to put
- 1:11a light to our feet to help us light the way. And if if that's what I'm doing for the
- 1:17members of our major classes, community, then I'm fulfilled. And that helps me accomplish
- 1:25my mission and purpose on this planet. And so for that, if you are listening and you
- 1:29are one of those major class members, I appreciate you. Thank you. So without further
- 1:33ado, a quick shout out to some of the success stories that we've collected over this past
- 1:37year. I'm just going to briefly read a few of these. I can see Janelle here, 30 attendees
- 1:44for the Reels for real estate class, so many producers in the room. I can go on to share with
- 1:51you another one, Mitch presented his class how to get more listings and low inventory market
- 1:56to an entire brokerage. And he's been asked to return to that brokerage every single month.
- 2:03At the end of his class, he came back to his office with six emails asking Mitch about working
- 2:10together. Here's Carrie. She did attracting the next generation of home buyers,
- 2:16she had 16 people registered for her class, 10 who showed up six who scheduled appointments,
- 2:21immediately in the class using the QR code that we provide to make it easy for you to capture
- 2:28the energy in the room and convert those attendees to conversations. Here's Travis just had 30
- 2:36agents attend his chat GPT class, got four messages from agents who weren't there after her
- 2:43I was posted the video of his class to social media to create even more awareness the agents were
- 2:49upset that they missed us missed the class and Travis had two new referrals immediately after the class.
- 2:56Here's Tiffany. She recently presented our class master the market. It was voted the best class
- 3:02to date by the agents who've attended her classes. And she actually had a broker co-present and co-host
- 3:09the class with her, which helped her drive attendance and engagement and then leveled up her brand
- 3:14credibility bonus. She gained two new realtor relationships who came up to her after the class and
- 3:20said they want to start sending her business doesn't get any easier than that does it.
- 3:26Here's a great story from Eric. Eric also hosted our chat GPT class for a team of agents.
- 3:33Now get this the team of agents reach out to him after seeing Eric post on social media some photos
- 3:42and videos and stuff from his chat GPT class that he hosted the previous month and the team of
- 3:49agents reaches out and says Eric would you come and teach our team about how to use chat GPT?
- 3:55Of course he says yes. After he's finished one of the agents from that team shared how she just
- 4:00had her best month ever with over six million in sales and that she's looking forward to working
- 4:04with Eric in the future. As Eric says this beats open house visits and cold calling boy it sure does.
- 4:13Here's another one from Carmella. What's up Carmella? A few weeks ago she was sharing
- 4:18wins of the week and our weekly mastermind and coaching call that we do with our members of the
- 4:22managing class community and what Carmella shared was that she had so far for the month scheduled
- 4:29eight appointments and she was also going through her closed loans which had so far made her over
- 4:35$45,000 in commissions and she still has a by the way at the time that she shared this this was
- 4:42a few months ago as I said I'm doing updates from the year so this is actually to be clear back in
- 4:47August and so that was a number back in August. Carmella had already earned 45,000 in commissions just
- 4:54from new relative relationships who have attended her classes. I'd like to check in with her since
- 4:58August and see how that number has grown. Here's Lisa who did a class with Remax and she wanted to
- 5:07point out for us when she shared her win of the week that a lot of times we think that these top
- 5:11producing agents have their your their lender team already in place and sometimes they do but often
- 5:16those relationships are in flux especially in this market and so Lisa hosted this class at Remax
- 5:22and she wanted to say that the you may think that a top producer has the perfect team turns out
- 5:28you never know till you ask this top producer is committed to making us their number one go to
- 5:35mortgage lender because of the value they got from the class and here's the last one I'll share
- 5:39with you just for sake of time even though there's lots more to share these success stories this
- 5:43is throughout the past year here 2023 this up from Nick Nick says he got his two his first two
- 5:48referrals from a whale that he was chasing right one of them was a $700,000 loan and this same
- 5:56agent is introducing Nick to the broker owner to teach classes to the brokerage and help them with
- 6:01recruiting retention and revenue smart play their Nick well done. So you've heard success stories
- 6:09you've been hearing them all year that was just a brief summary of some that we've collected
- 6:14over this past year my question to you is do you want any of those types of results for yourself
- 6:21if you're willing to be coachable if you're willing to get a little bit outside of your comfort
- 6:25zone follow a proven process right attend our weekly coaching and mastermind calls and plug into
- 6:32our system which is about leading with education going from solicitor and vendor to partner in peer
- 6:39by leading with content and classes in person or virtual to help you build your platform and your
- 6:45personal brand in your local market or outside of that market so that you attract instead of chase
- 6:51so that you increase your conversions get more conversations that gets more referrals what are you
- 6:58waiting for go to mortgage marketing dot pro book a call with me and you and I will have just a
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- 7:10if there's a fit together if you're right for our community and that's it go to mortgage marketing dot
- 7:15pro all right this week my special guest is a longtime friend of mine Richard griser Richard is an
- 7:22executive at a company called truve truv.com and hey guys you know what's interesting I had a
- 7:30conversation with Richard and I think you're going to find that kind of interesting and engaging
- 7:35and look when you are originating alone right you have to verify employment correct
- 7:45you have to verify income correct and what is the solution or the product or the platform that
- 7:51most of you have been using out there huh what is it a lot of you are using the work number aren't
- 7:58course that's provided by one of the credit bureaus equifax and there's some issues that come
- 8:04with that out of the gate when you consider what's happening with right data trigger leads so on
- 8:11and so forth but did you know there's another option for you yeah there's another option it's
- 8:15called truve truv.com it's unlocking the power right to verify income employment assets insurance
- 8:25etc and I think you'll hear what Richard has to say about making a case for considering an
- 8:32alternative to the work number number one from a pure standpoint of cost savings who doesn't
- 8:39want to pass on significant savings to their clients and who doesn't want to save time truve
- 8:45of course is a you know kind of a forward thinking modern technology company that helps remove
- 8:49the manual processes involved in verifying right income employment assets etc and they have a
- 8:56pretty cool permission based data platform does a lot of the heavy lifting for you does it at a
- 9:02lesser cost than the work number and makes you look like a superstar in here out of past those
- 9:08savings and efficiencies on to your clients so I think you know just listen to this conversation
- 9:14from the standpoint of is this a potential solution for you to help you deliver a better experience
- 9:21for your clients and for your referral partners because once again who doesn't want to lower cost
- 9:26and speed up the verification process and providing right a more seamless transaction for all
- 9:31parties involved and you know mortgage financing so if you want to check out more the links will be
- 9:37in the show notes at truv.com truve go check it out there's some good stuff on there for you to
- 9:42learn from and or reach out to Richard directly we'll put a link to his linked in profile in the show
- 9:48notes and without further ado let's get into this week's show Richard welcome to the show
- 9:54well thank you so much Jeff glad to be here good to have you man I know we've been kind of friends
- 9:59remotely for quite a period of time and I think this conversation today will be very insightful
- 10:05and hopefully inspiring as well for the listeners so before we get into it why don't you just
- 10:09share with listeners who are you what do you do so many my name is Richard Greaser and I'm running
- 10:15marketing at a company called truve truve truve just in a nutshell is in the income asset
- 10:22employment verification space you can check us out at truve.com and I've been in mortgage tech
- 10:28for a while I was at trust engine before and sales boom ring and mortgage coach and so yeah so
- 10:35glad to be here glad to talk about you know what we're doing I think it's really important for
- 10:39both lenders and borrowers okay and let's do this by the way you were educating me the last time we
- 10:44talked on this whole you know space if you will and the current solution or option or lack thereof
- 10:54options for originators regarding verification of employment like it's been up till truve it's been
- 11:02quite limited is that correct very limited yeah I mean basically the de facto is the work number
- 11:08you know the work number Heather GSC certification and a lot of folks most lenders know the work
- 11:14number very well and I think they were happy with it you know 10 20 years ago for a long time and I
- 11:21think the trouble that they've run into is that they've been steadily increasing in in price and
- 11:26I think the industry and the game has just changed at this point and so it's really created a nice
- 11:33it's just a nice time for companies with new technologies like truve to come in and and present
- 11:39new solutions that can do even better for the borrower and the lenders so again I'm gonna
- 11:45may sound like at the novice on this right not having you know originated alone for a minute but
- 11:51this is the work number when you say that the listening audience should know what that is
- 11:57I think the listening audience should know if you're a loan officer or if you're working in corporate
- 12:01maybe you're on the marketing side you don't know so look I'll tell you what it is
- 12:07when you do an application you typically have to verify your income it's funny we're in this
- 12:12industry of trust but we don't trust the borrowers right borrowers are like hey I make this much money
- 12:16and it's like yeah sure you do let's take a look at the w2s shall we yeah and so you know that's
- 12:22that's how it works and the way the work number works it's a it's a company that was bought by
- 12:28Equifax and what the work number does is on the back end they're essentially selling back to the
- 12:35consumer their own data and so the work number is getting their data from ADP and you know the
- 12:42consumers essentially paying for it twice with ADP and the work number and so you know we're doing
- 12:49a whole different model and we're actually taking the consumer it's called a consumer permission
- 12:53platform and essentially the consumer just logs into their payroll provider we've integrated
- 12:58with all of the different payroll providers the technology is just fantastic I mean we designed
- 13:05under like kind of Apple guidelines so if you like Apple products and you like how slick the
- 13:08Apple products are that's the consumer interface it's a really slick product verification super
- 13:14fast and we've integrated with 92% of payroll providers it's the highest coverage that's out there
- 13:21we convert just as well as the work number does and so at the end of the day the consumer can
- 13:28log in once to their payroll provider at you know the application process
- 13:33truth pulls all of the information needed for the loan all the W2s all of that kind of stuff
- 13:40and the consumer doesn't have to log in again when it comes time for 10 days before close which
- 13:47is typically the model and to give you just an understanding and I think most people should
- 13:51understand why it's a big deal right now the work number has been raising their prices year over
- 13:57year for a while now and I don't mean by a little bit I mean like 30% you know over a couple
- 14:03years is a big deal so you know on average bar application usually there's I think it's 1.85
- 14:10bar wars meaning on average there's like one bar war plus a spouse who are involved in the mortgage
- 14:14application you know you've got 55 bucks to a hundred bucks depending on what tier you're falling
- 14:20in with the work number on just one verification for one person and then you got to do it twice
- 14:25because you're doing it again when you're close to closing so that's getting you up to like a
- 14:28hundred or 150 bucks and then you've got a spouse they've got to do it too so you're looking at like
- 14:34two to four hundred dollars in in verification costs per file and then there's a lot of money
- 14:40some lenders pass it on to the borrower some lenders eat that cost if the lenders eating that cost
- 14:45at the end of the day that's their cost of origination going up look in this market there's not
- 14:50that many loans out there read interest rates are high bar wars are laser focused on line items
- 14:56on lender cost line items and you know a lot of lenders are being shopped and compared to others
- 15:01and so this is a really good opportunity to get in front of get it get it get in front and be
- 15:08innovative because at the end of the day most lenders care and loan officers care because it's
- 15:13saving 60 80% against the work number but then the next question is like well does it work as
- 15:17well as the work number doesn't and that answers yes is conversion is is good or higher
- 15:22well that's what i want to ask you about describe the difference of user experience
- 15:27because to recap what you said with truth you know i'm getting a loan buying a house or whatever
- 15:32and i can log into my existing payroll platform adp whatever that is and you know do the thing how
- 15:39does that compare to the traditional method they've been doing yeah i mean consumers have made it
- 15:45clear they're not happy with the idea of employers and payroll providers selling their private
- 15:50data especially when it's sold back to them well so now you know what happened i just remembered
- 15:56the the i remember back in the day right so you got to get that you're calling somebody if i'm
- 16:01correct the work number they call to get that verification right that is what is usually a waterfall
- 16:06lenders have like a waterfall at the top it's just data that's being passed uh and there's
- 16:11right now now it's okay it's okay i think that you're you're talking to probably an audience that
- 16:16has a very similar experience with that that you've had and so at the top of the waterfall is just
- 16:21data like does is this consumer in in our data set um and then i think after that um that's like
- 16:28you know i don't know what the percentage conversion is it's something like 30 35 percent then after
- 16:32that it's the waterfall is to then actually call the employer an HR department and try and verify
- 16:38and so by conversion just not to interrupt but by conversion what you mean is the borrower
- 16:42complies or there's success of that action step yeah exactly right like the person you were able
- 16:48to verify the income they asked that's the appointment yeah exactly all right um okay so what we're
- 16:55saying is we're we're basically putting that back into the users clients borrowers hands
- 17:02absolutely right and this is the direction that um a lot of the industry is going and
- 17:09is going to be in the future i mean all banking is hitting this way consumers aren't okay
- 17:13with their data being sold especially when it's sold back to them that's like a totally
- 17:18unnecessary cost the the reason we're able to be so much cheaper than the work number
- 17:23is all we're doing is building a bridge to their own payroll provider that they have access to
- 17:27and we can pull it directly into you know the loan operation system or the
- 17:31POS the loan operation system the LOS or the POS we can our integrations are fairly seamless so
- 17:38that you know i mean i think the lenders that we're working on is absolutely love what we're doing
- 17:43so you you think in the spirit of privacy that this is something you would be supporting
- 17:52encouraging lenders promoting you know that hey we're we're not selling your data or what would
- 18:00be the positioning around that do you think yeah i mean i think increasingly that's where it's
- 18:04going to get to for sure but i think right now let's be honest it's dollars and cents that are
- 18:09on most lenders minds and then the one thing that gets everybody's attention right away is oh my
- 18:14gosh i can save 60 to 80 percent on my verification cost that immediately gets a conversation going
- 18:20and so it's a really good time as an aside just to be at the company because i think that's
- 18:25probably one of the only things that you can sell to most lenders and lenders and loan officers is
- 18:31cost savings right like hey i can save you a ton of money because there's not a ton of loans
- 18:36loans going on right now in the market so i would i would say it would be nice to have
- 18:41you know the consumer permission the consumers owning their data and doing right by the consumer
- 18:46as the number one motivation but i would say that's more secondary or tertiary in terms of a lenders
- 18:51typical motivation right now it's just the martian nature of the market but with ccpa and where
- 18:55things are going it's definitely going to become front and center uh in a very short amount of time
- 19:01okay um very interesting so i'm an individual loan officer and i'm hearing this and what i'm
- 19:07hearing so far is you know i can reduce the the costs of the loan either to you know my shop
- 19:14right um and or depending on how the how the company structures that some people are passing
- 19:19that on so what do you what what are the key points you would want a loan officer individual
- 19:23carrier not up you know executive at a company per se yet we can we cover that if you want but um
- 19:29what would you want to make sure that they uh hear from this conversation that was directly
- 19:34applicable to them well i think i'm going to give uh two perspectives on the business perspective
- 19:39you as a loan officer running your own business or branch and then the lending company if you're
- 19:43an executive a lending company running your lending organization there's just a business
- 19:48and the business perspective is sixty to eighty percent savings right that's just some it speaks to
- 19:53you right now the average i and b i just read from nba for q3 they published their underwater about
- 19:59five hundred bucks per loan so just think about that for a second we're talking about a reducing a
- 20:03two hundred dollar line item per loan by like eighty percent right so you're a lot a lot less
- 20:10underwater already right twenty twenty five percent less underwater just in the savings uh that you
- 20:15could be with by getting our true of it to do the verifications and the product works just as well
- 20:20so that's on the business side so let's talk about the consumer side ice mortgage technology
- 20:25company uh they just um released a twenty twenty three bar of insight survey survey and they said
- 20:31that two thirds this is twenty twenty three right not old data there uh and by the way ice is a huge
- 20:36market share so uh they revealed that two thirds sixty seven percent of um borrowers that were
- 20:43interviewed said saving money was one of their top three concerns for financing a mortgage
- 20:48and more than half cited how lender fees like fifty six fifty six percent of these respondents
- 20:55cited how lend uh lender fees or were what would make them make a decision on their next month
- 21:01so it's not just it's not just for the company to be more efficient and and operate on lower
- 21:06costs it's also the borrowers care about it too sure um what about the aspect of
- 21:14closing time right or process to your point earlier we're talking about the differences of the
- 21:20true right employment verification versus the more traditional manual process things like that like
- 21:26how often is the traditional method of verification slowing down the loan yeah that's an interesting
- 21:33question i don't have exact data on how how long the that that i can't i can't answer that perfectly
- 21:39what i can say is this we just did a webinar with a client who said that on average a true
- 21:45of his improving uh there's no shortening their loan cycle time by like one to three days and
- 21:51that's all uh that is a lot of money in terms of cost to the lender and it also makes a big difference
- 21:56to the bar because at the end of the day a borrowers sitting around for 30 days i think the average
- 22:01actually is like 45 days uh in in terms of how long it takes to close how long the actual
- 22:07limb origination process takes the bar was just sitting around with anxious waiting that entire time
- 22:13if you can the more that you can shorten that time that's what the the the the the bar really cares
- 22:19about right like take that anxiety away from me and so um our our customer that we just did uh
- 22:25webinar it's no secret it was with revolution mortgage feme is uh just awesome he's their um
- 22:30EVP of operations and um he was talking about how you know their estimate is that truths can save
- 22:36uh $20,000 a month a month uh took in in in costs and it's getting it's getting uh the great document
- 22:45the actual data and that the um that is needed to actually close the loan up front when the when
- 22:51the borrower verifies a lot of people a lot of lenders out there right now you know what they're doing
- 22:56they are skipping because of the work number they are skipping uh verification steps so sometimes
- 23:02you know what i was saying is that you know an application you do the verification and then you do it
- 23:06again uh when you get close to uh ten days out to close there's a reason for that right regulation
- 23:11and stuff like that but but you can do little hacks to try and remove one of those verification steps
- 23:17and that's what a lot of lenders are having to do it's not what they want to do it's what they're
- 23:21having to do to try and save costs off their bill and with truth they're actually able to go back
- 23:27and re-verify stuff that's in their pipeline because they're like hey i can afford to do this again
- 23:33what's the user experience for the mortgage originator what how do they you know initiate this process
- 23:42on behalf of a client like what does that look like you know loan app process all that stuff
- 23:45yeah the integrations are pretty awesome they have a really good simple nexus integration
- 23:49if you like it with your POS we have this is one of them we have a really good integration
- 23:54with uh encompass um so it depends i think excuse me on the um the uh loan officer or the lender
- 24:01it depends on how you like to do it uh your your your your process but it's push button get verification
- 24:06you basically push button it sends out the verification it's a link you can put it out in the email
- 24:11if you want to um or it can go you know directly from your uh LOS or from your uh POS it's very seamless
- 24:19with the POS it's actually embedded in knife ring okay who then is your target person so so
- 24:27whoever's listening to this right now right we've got the individual producer we maybe a branch
- 24:31manager maybe there's a regional or an executive or something but who uh of those people in my
- 24:37potential audience right are the ideal people to have a conversation with about truth well next week
- 24:45if you're an individual loan officer we are launching our individual seat option where you can do
- 24:51one-off verifications wow and that's a really big deal i think for a lot of people who are in the
- 24:57business for themselves or for even small shops and then we have of course lender enterprise packages
- 25:04so if you're i think you know very simple if you're doing you know 500 to a thousand loans per year
- 25:09reach out to us we'll have a conversation on the enterprise level if if you're a single
- 25:14L.O. broker you can um you can go and and do it verifications one-off you just pay for them
- 25:20uh oh by the time this goes live then then that will be available 100% correct
- 25:25all right we're going to put a link in the show notes obviously truth truve truve.com that's
- 25:29probably where they go for those that are listening i want to learn more about this
- 25:33yep absolutely right truve.com or you can reach out to me on LinkedIn Richard Greaser uh you
- 25:38want to have a conversation i love having conversations with loan officers with lending executives
- 25:43reach out to me let's just chat yeah no this is very cool and i think um i'm glad you reached out as
- 25:49well because to your point you know a monopoly uh in the industry for too long raising prices
- 25:58not the best ideal user experience for either the originator or the client for the reasons we
- 26:04mentioned so disruption man it's happening it's happening yeah exactly and you know it's funny
- 26:10these opportunities are created by success a very successful player will just be super successful
- 26:15and you know just be doing what they probably should be doing with their product and it creates
- 26:19opportunities for incumbents to come in and create an awesome product and essentially uh provide
- 26:24a better service so you know it's not just it's it's i'll just i'll all end on one anecdote i have a
- 26:30friend who works for um SAP and they he owns like though he works in the corporate uh section and
- 26:37owns the travel application so like being corporate think Coca-Cola when they want to have their
- 26:41executives travel they booked their travel through this SAP app and uh i hope he doesn't hear this
- 26:48but anyways uh you know they have tont they are now under assault from incumbents i mean they are
- 26:54the dominant market leader with these big enterprises but they're getting we use a company called
- 26:59nivan and nivan is really cool it's like this uh startup where you can book train you can book
- 27:04flights you can book all this stuff and they try and get you the most competitive airfares and they
- 27:08leverage of course the business side to get you better deals then you probably can get on your own
- 27:13and so these competitors are coming in and my friend who works at this big company is sitting here
- 27:17watching these competitors he knows exactly what they need to do to change their business and compete
- 27:22and the company's not willing to make that change because it's essentially a cash cow they don't
- 27:26need to uh you know they they know the cash flow and how it's going to work out for them
- 27:31but it you know that plan works until it doesn't you know and there is that tipping point where
- 27:36suddenly you realize oh man we just lost 20% market share in a quarter or two quarters and that's
- 27:42usually when things change uh at these companies so yeah yeah for sure well this has been really
- 27:47cool man i'm glad we could have this conversation and bring some attention to the listeners so
- 27:51hey if you are an individual allow you heard it like by the time you're hearing this you can go to
- 27:56truv.ru.com and learn more about incorporating this into your process save your clients some
- 28:02money save you some money right um and and have a better user experience for everybody to
- 28:07evolve so uh can't say thank you enough once again for bringing value Richard yeah for the man
- 28:14I love I love talking to you uh it's my pleasure so listeners you know what to do you heard the uh
- 28:19link in the show notes all that if you like this episode hey leave us a review share it with
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- 28:26person in my company should hear this please share it with them uh and or at least the uh you
- 28:31know the links to truth so appreciate you tuning in we'll see you on the next one bye for now
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