Congratulations on your decision to improve your skills and knowledge base to increase your career potential. The breadth of skills you have mastered to reach a level of competence where you feel secure in stating that you are ready for an advanced degree of training is enormous. This course is an advanced education program for professional Mortgage Loan Processors who have the experience and skills in place that allow them to perform their job efficiently. What we will do in the coming days is fine-tune your advanced practices to incorporate new, upper level skills into your workday. These new practices and skills will assist you in understanding the advanced practices your packages undergo as they move through the loan strategy planning, underwriting, and approval processes. This new understanding will assist you in gaining the ability to qualify your packages before they reach the desk of the underwriter. You will learn to assess each item that may create an additional stipulation or slow the loan process before you submit the package to the underwriter. This ability will enable you to address many of these issues before it even becomes an issue. Competently handling potential problems before they develop into a true roadblock in the path to closing the loan will dramatically smooth your processes. You will decrease the time from loan submittal to loan closing and promote a higher level of satisfaction within each individual involved in the loan process. The materials in this course are applicable for all levels within the mortgage office structure. The materials you will review in the following days are materials that cross over every position within the system and lead to the path to success. When you have completed the course inclusions, you will know that you are walking into your office better skilled and with more promotion potential than those who have not taken the initiative to improve their career building skills. Moreover, you will know that you obtained this advanced degree of knowledge and skill because you have a special spark and forward moving potential that made you a candidate for enrollment. You have shown that you have excellent tools and proven techniques you use on a daily basis to ensure you perform your duties in a professional and efficient manner. This course will not attempt to alter your excellent performance but rather will fine-tune certain aspects of your professional skills to lead you to greater success both on a daily basis and throughout your career. Once you have mastered the skills included, you will find that your workday progresses more smoothly. There will be enough time in the day to complete each task on your desk. Best of all your potential will increase with each Chapter you master.