Integrity Home Mortgage Deepens Relationship with Guardian.

LAKELAND, CO -- Guardian Mortgage Services, a subsidiary of Guardian Mortgage Documents here, has helped Integrity Home Mortgage increase its volume and position the company for growth by providing closing and fulfillment services. GMS provides customized back-office outsource solutions to lenders of all sizes and serves as a variable cost alternative to managing these operations internally.

Integrity, which has been a GMS customer for a year, started as a brokerage in 2005 with the intention of transitioning to a banker within five years, according to Adam Huddleston, president and CEO of Integrity. With the assistance of the GMS back-office outsourcing services, the Winchester, Va.-based company was able to make the transition and significantly increase originations within six months. Mr. Huddleston, who has been in the mortgage industry for eight years, said this accelerated timeline for his broker-to-banker conversion would not have been possible without GMS performing his back-office closing and post-closing activities.

"When I first planned to make the conversion to a banker, I was going to hire all of our own closers and outsource the underwriting," Mr. Huddleston said in a news release. "After being introduced to Guardian Mortgage Services through David Lykken at MBSD Group, and talking to them about the services they could provide, it became crystal clear to me that I could be much more effective because Guardian has the ability ...