I came across some free courses offered by Fannie Mae, which are a great series for anyone who wants to get more familiar certain aspects of lending, appraising, originating, and underwriting. They have an abundance of other online courses as well, take a look around their website for more courses. This link will take you to their scheduling page, with dates and times along with many of their currently available courses. Some you can take right away, just by downloading them, others are scheduled sessions.

The varied courses are great to take, and I highly recommend the fraud prevention courses - anytime we can get updated training about fraud and fraud prevention, professionals in this industry should soak it up like a sponge - the more we prevent fraud in this business, the more fraud we can prevent ourselves - causing less need for the government to step in and create more confining laws regarding our industry.

Even if you are an originator it is good to take the appraisal and/or the underwriting courses. If you gain nothing else from the courses, you may gain an understanding of what the process is for others working on your loans with you. This can be especially helpful for understanding why certain conditions need to be met with certain circumstances, and the turn around time for processing and return of information.