Prabhakar Putheti, a first-time home buyer with a 5 percent down payment, was preapproved for a $380,000 mortgage in an hour and closed less than two months later. Craig Bovaird took just three weeks to nail down $1.2 million in financing to expand his Lancaster plastics company. (Full article: 958 words)

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