This history came back, triggered when I was recently explaining my «narrow» career to someone in the
mortgage field, who had trouble believing I never
got involved in explaining
mortgaging, personally giving advice outside my area of expertise, as many colleagues who
get involved in that arena do, prequalifying buyers; never had them fill out an income statement (I didn't want to know how much money my clients earned, many even self - employed), even when they were my sellers,
about to buy, but I always had written prequalification
commitments in my hands to provide if and when needed, (that's all I needed to know, and have in writing), and I knew therefore who was in fact providing the funding; they did all the questions asking, not me.