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Buying a Home

The Annoying Part of Applying for a Mortgage… and How to Avoid It

Bill Provost · · 1 min read

When you apply for a mortgage and the lender does a “hard pull” on your credit, it typically triggers an onslaught of solicitations that the borrower gets for insurance, other mortgage offers, and many other services that are related to home buying and home ownership. This comes because the credit bureaus will sell your information to dozens of vendors who then want to “pitch” you on their products and services.

In order to help our clients, we are encouraging people to opt-out of this process a couple of different ways. I cover it in the video above and below you can see instructions on how you can take yourself off of these lists and prevent unwanted solicitations.

If you have questions about this, feel free to contact me.

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