3390 - Mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration aren't the morass of paperwork they used to be, according to an expert in the product. "With the technology tools that are available today," Renee Pierce, president of Quality Mortgage Services in Altamonte Springs, Fla., said, "the product is as easily processed, approved and closed as competitive products." One Internet tool that's "imperative" for government-insured lending is the FHA connection, according to Pierce, who does private training for her firm's clients. "It's like your own private pipeline to the FHA," she told a group of mortgage brokers recently. Accessed with password protection, the connection allows loan agents to obtain the required FHA case number, choose an appraiser, obtain clearance of the borrowers' social security numbers and a host of other information. "It's your private, on-line, lender-secure hook-up" to the FHA, the trainer said. "And it will help you be much more efficient. It doesn't mean your borrower is just going to fly through (the approval process), but it should help decrease the amount of documentation. Read this Nemmar Real Estate Training article at Mortgage Loans, Finance, Economy, Appraisal