Origination

Episode 6: Ana Ramos, Managing Director and Regional Product Head, Walker and Dunlop Small Balance Loans: Knowing Your Product, the Importance of Responsiveness, How Originators See the World Differently from Underwriters, Managing the Due Diligence Proce


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On this episode, we'll be speaking with Ana Ramos. Ana has over 20 years of commercial real estate experience, and it's closed well over $2 billion of deals. She has one of the most thorough origination processes that I've ever seen in the industry. Please see the time stamps for specific topics:

3:26 – Importance of responsiveness and availability

4:53 – Underwriting background as a tool to provide more certainty of execution

7:58 – Mindset shifts required to transition from underwriting to origination

13:07 – When to fire a client

16:51 – Ana’s approach to a first meeting with a client

21:04 – Ana’s signature vetting process

23:23 – Importance of gaining trust of the underwriting team

25:36 – Why does the process still take so long

38:08 – Challenges that women can face in origination

41:51 – Market trends

lenders, market, people, loan, client, equity, selling, deals, screen protectors, year, calls, rates, business, borrower, easy, long, sales, chase, interest rates, debt

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