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Re:Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail... by suresk on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:08PM (#29516048)
I refinanced with them last year and it was a "meh" experience. Their rates/fees were good, and the UI made it pretty easy to work with, but they were incredibly slow. I would have understood - it was a really busy time for refis - but the work flow would go something like this:

They'd ask for a document that they hadn't asked for previously and make a big deal that I needed to provide it to them in the next few hours or else we'd lose our rate, then when I did provide it I wouldn't hear from them for 2 weeks. Overall, even with an appraisal waiver, it took like 3 months for it to go through and I never waited more than a day to respond to requests for info/documents.

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Re:Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail... by mfrye0 on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:32PM (#29516249)
My experience exactly, though they also asked for the same document multiple times.
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Re:Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail... by suresk on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:34PM (#29516264)
Yes! That too!

A lot of this started after the rate lock was set to expire and they had to keep extending it (costing them a bit of money each time), so part of me thought the whole "You have until tomorrow morning to send us this document you've already sent us 3 times, or else your lock will expire" was a way for them to get out of it, but more likely it was just incompetence/overwork.

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Re:Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail... by achow on Friday December 10, 2021 @11:09PM (#29518329)
Sounds like a poorly managed operation.

Front end UI is slick but at the backend they did not have proper CRM workflows. Marketing mindset and not a product tech one.

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