Two Can Play the Jargon Game - Kindle Non-Fiction

Two Can Play the Jargon Game: A Mortgage Application Self-Help Workbook 
by Y. Patrick Mazor 

This is a very powerful book. If you have read Patrick’s seminal work on the subject, Your Mortgage (and if you haven’t, you really should), you will already have a start toward understanding the jargon used in the mortgage world. The workbook you are about to read and work through, Two Can Play the Jargon Game, not only reinforces that information, it also gives you a huge leg-up on an even more important concept: how to use these terms effectively – and to your own advantage - when communicating with your mortgage team.

In this workbook, Patrick takes you step by step through the process of filling out the mortgage application – not an easy task because the application doesn’t always mean what it says - and he provides insight into and information about what the loan officer and the underwriter will be looking for. He shows you how to keep them a little off balance by knowing in advance what they are looking for, and giving it to them before they ask.

Once you have filled out the application, Patrick shows you how to start shopping for an employee: that is, your loan officer. Patrick shows you why and how you will interview the prospective loan officer, instead of the other way around. Patrick shows you which questions it’s important to ask and which are throwaway questions to set the loan officer at ease. Finally, Patrick shows you how to know when you’ve found the right mortgage team to work with. In other words, he lets you know not only how to get started in your search, but also how to know when you’re done.

In my role as a Certified Public Accountant, I read a lot. In my role as a professional editor, I read even more. Much of the material I read concerns finances and how to arrange them, including how to apply for and obtain a mortgage for your home. Most of them could –and often do – serve a secondary purpose as a guaranteed cure for insomnia! However, you’re not going to find that in this workbook! Not only is Patrick’s writing style conversational, it’s informal and friendly. He doesn’t intimidate. He doesn’t bully (not even the “bad” guys). And he doesn’t pretend to be anything he isn’t.
What Patrick is, though, is a thoroughly-knowledgeable and compassionate former mortgage professional. Although Patrick has moved on into other occupations, it’s clear that he hasn’t lost his passion for helping people or his knowledge of the ins and outs of the mortgage business. Together, these combine to give you a strong advantage when shopping for your mortgage.

You will enjoy this workbook – not only reading it, but following the advice. When you get done and your mortgage is closed, you will know you have played the Jargon Game as well as it can be played, and that you didn’t leave a pile of money on the table due to lack of knowledge, like I did, way in the past.

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