📰Also in this edition: • Capitalizing on consumer mortgage trends • Mortgage Bytes If we had a chart of the week, it would be this one. Citigroup's U.S. economic surprise index (chart above) has turned negative for the first time in well over a year. A reading below zero

The government is on a mission to help renters get more credit. It plans to do that by incorporating rental payments into credit reports. They say the move will help more renters qualify for mortgages. But there are several other implications, and this won't be an overnight Cinderella

A year ago, we lost Wayne Strandlund, an alternative mortgage innovator and one of the finest men I've met over my 17 years in the mortgage business. MLN doesn't do many remembrance stories, but Wayne deserves remembering because of what his life teaches. Here is his