Our fastest exit this year took 42 days. Our slowest took 497. Same lender. Same money. And here is the part most people get wrong: the slow one is not automatically the bad one. FROM DEVON'S DESK We have closed out 19 loans so far in 2026, so I pulled the exit data this week. The spread is wide, two to three months on one end, well over a year on the other. The lazy read is fast good, slow bad. That is not the lesson. The lesson is this: match your timeline to your projected