Member Spotlight | Ryan Casey
Our April Member Spotlight shines on Ryan Casey, our Director of Business Development at AAPL! What is your favorite AAPL memory? Walking into my first conference and seeing so many people genuinely networking was a [...]
Two Days at AAPL, One Year Ahead Two Days at AAPL, One Year Ahead of the Market the Market
The 2025 AAPL Conference offered clarity where the market hasn’t and tools brokers could use immediately. You walked into Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and felt it immediately: This wasn’t just another industry event. As [...]
Committed Leadership Turns Strategy into Value
Learn why your lending business won’t scale until you stop doing everything yourself and start leading for long-term value. For most private lenders, leadership doesn’t come from a boardroom of VPs and strategists but from [...]
RicherValues’ OverSight Report Receives Ratings Agency Approvals; AAPL Announces Partnership to Expand Industry Adoption
Kansas City, MO —3/26/2026— The OverSight Report, an automated appraisal risk analytics solution developed by RicherValues, has received approvals from multiple ratings agencies and third-party review (TPR) firms, enabling its use as a direct replacement for [...]
Industry Alert: Fraudulent Borrower Profile
We are issuing this notice to raise awareness of a borrower profile recently presented to one of our members that exhibited multiple indicators of material misrepresentation. Based on the structure and coordination observed, there is [...]
State Policy Watch: Rent Stabilization and Eviction Reform in Massachusetts and Connecticut
Two state-level proposals addressing rent regulation and eviction standards have advanced in Massachusetts and Connecticut. After review, the Government Relations Committee has elected to take a neutral position while continuing to monitor downstream effects on [...]
Legislative Update: The 21st Century Road to Housing Act
On March 12, 2026, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved S.2651, the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, closely mirroring the version previously passed by the U.S. House. While reconciliation is still required, the legislation has [...]
Build Scale with the Right Debt Instruments
Leverage is common across finance, but only a few instruments truly serve private mortgage lenders—and access is far from universal. Leverage instruments, also known as debt instruments, are numerous in the financial services industry, even [...]
Rebounding Sentiment Signals an End to Buyer Gridlock
A modest sentiment lift among distressed buyers at year-end suggests movement in the housing market in early 2026. The sentiment and bidding behavior of local community developers buying distressed properties at auction increased slightly in late [...]
AAPL and Truepic Launch New Packaged Learning Course to Combat Media Fraud in Private Lending
The American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL), in partnership with Truepic, announced the launch of the Media Fakes & Misrepresentation packaged learning course, a new educational offering designed exclusively for AAPL members. This free course equips private [...]
Create Your Custom GPT
Here’s how to tailor a large language model to boost efficiency and accuracy in your lending business. Real estate lenders are working hard to adapt and innovate as technology evolves and borrower expectations shift. One [...]
Inside the East Coast Fraud Scheme
Authors Michael Fogliano and Sean Morgan Unrecorded loans, rapid flips, and inflated appraisals left clues to one of the largest incidents to hit our industry to date. In July 2025, Fannie Mae issued an alert [...]
DSCR Leaves Bridge in the Dust
Lightning Docs is a fully automated, cloud-based loan document solution developed by Fortra Law. In addition to providing automated loan documents for private lenders, Lightning Docs serves as a source of aggregated data to add [...]
Member Spotlight | Craig Johnson
Our March Member Spotlight shines on Craig Johnson, our Chief of Staff at AAPL! What is one accomplishment (personal or professional) you're particularly proud of? When reflecting on his career, Craig Johnson doesn’t point to [...]
The Mortgage Office Earns G2 Award in Milestone for Private Lending Tech
Huntington Beach, CA – February 19, 2026 — The Mortgage Office (TMO) today announced that it has been recognized as a 2026 G2 Best Software Awards winner, ranking #2 for the Best Financial Services Software [...]
Stock Value Begins with Strategy
Investable enterprises require systems, capital strategy, and repeatable performance. If you were buying your business today, what would you pay for it—and why? What systems, processes, and data would make you confident enough to write [...]
Discipline Over Hype
In an environment where many race to brag about record deal counts and lightning-fast closings, discipline might seem like a buzzkill. Brock VandenBerg, founder and CEO of private lending firm TaliMar Financial, wants discipline to [...]
Member Spotlight | Nichole Moore
Our February Member Spotlight shines on Nichole Moore! How long have you or your company been an AAPL member? Over 10 years! What have you found to be most beneficial from AAPL membership? AAPL provides [...]
Forclosure Auction Volume Increased 48% In Q4 2025 To A Nearly Six-Year High, Still 39% Below Pre-Pandemic Level
Irvine, Calif. — Jan. 29, 2026 — Auction.com, the nation’s leading distressed real estate marketplace, today released its Q4 2025 Auction Market Dispatch, which shows that foreclosure auction volume in the fourth quarter of 2025 [...]
AAPL Launches “AAPL Constituency”: The Voices Behind the Industry
As private lending continues to grow in influence and complexity, the need to elevate authentic industry voices has never been more important. The American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) is proud to introduce AAPL Constituency, [...]
