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  "summary": "As of 2026-10-24, LenDb lists 40 loan officers licensed in or based in California whose lender pages say they speak Hindi. The top-ranked are Deepak Ahlawat (Loan Factory), Avi Sondhi (Residential Wholesale Mortgage, Inc., Fairfield) and Vinnie Patel (JPMorgan Chase Bank (Chase Home Lending), Carson). Ranking is lender-neutral: a license in CA, branch location, experience and profile completeness. Nobody pays for placement. Languages come only from loan officers' own lender pages, and most lender pages do not list languages. A loan officer missing from this list may still speak it: not listed means not stated, not that they do not speak it.",
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        "States 30 years of experience (lender page, 2026-10-09)"
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      "license_check": {
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        "confidence": "federal_registration",
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        "label": "Likely federally registered (works at a bank). Federally registered MLOs aren't state-licensed; verify at NMLS",
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        "States 21 years of experience (lender page, 2026-10-09)"
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        "States 20 years of experience (lender page, 2026-10-19)"
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