Daniel Jacobs, founder and managing director of TruLoan Mortgage, talks about how lenders can help borrowers through the buying process.

He says this advice is especially important for first time homebuyers, who are otherwise getting advice from family members who dealt with a very different market. 

Caleb Mittelstet, executive vice president, National Production and Distributed Retail Sales for Planet Home Lending, offers his insight into how mortgage rates will respond to the Federal Reserve's decision to raise the rate by 0.75%, the largest increase since November 1994.

Deb Killian of CLOES.online once had a rival company hire away several top originators. Those originators took customer files with them, leading to litigation. Killian talks about the struggle to survive after a raid, and what the company can do to stop it.

CFPB Chairman Rohit Chopra said in a blog post that he wants to update CFPB's extensive regulations, including making them easier to understand and enforce. So what does that mean for mortgage lenders? 

For some borrowers, past credit problems stand between them and homeownership. Now credit repair companies are fraudulently trying to wash those borrowers' histories. What do you need to know about the latest trend in fraud?

Home prices and rates keep going up, pricing more buyers out of the market. Redfin says fewer buyers are engaging in bidding wars, and that means more buyers are dropping their prices.

Do economists think the Fed's 75-basis point hike was the right move? Or did it push us further toward recession? Staff writer Doug Page tells us how experts reacted to Wednesday's meeting.

Why did the Fed decide to raise rates by 75 basis points? The Fed bucked expectations and raised rates by 75 basis points. Why did they go so high? And what does that mean for the market? 

Duke Economics Professor Connel Fullenkamp looks ahead to the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee meeting Tuesday and Wednesday. What will the Fed do? Is it the right move? And could we see the Fed get more aggressive with rate hikes. 

Several companies are suing each other for allegedly poaching employees and then working with them to steal customer information and other data. But this is not a new problem. So will the industry finally figure out how to regulate poaching?