Mortgage Business Basics Game.
Build confidence, one client decision at a time.
Short rounds. Real-world scenarios. A useful explanation after every answer. Take your time.
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One situation. One good next move.
Read the situation, choose a next step, then see the reasoning. No countdown, no streak to protect.
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Follow the client journey, or jump to what you need. Start with the short lesson; learn more through each answer.
What this practice covers
Client discovery, income and credit evidence, down payment, qualification, suitable products, lender submissions, conditions and funding, ethics and fraud escalation, renewals and refinancing, commercial property analysis, and Ontario Level 1 scope.
This is a practical foundation, not an exhaustive licensing course, accredited training or a substitute for brokerage supervision. Commercial lending needs specialist competence. It does not grant authority to arrange private lending.
Sources, privacy & limitations
Educational practice using fictional people, properties and figures. Not personalized financial, legal or licensing advice, an approval, or an official licensing exam. Rules and lender policies can change; verify original sources and brokerage guidance for real transactions.
No real applicant income, debts, identity, contact, credit or other personal financial information is needed or should be collected by the game.
Before working a real file: Use the brokerage’s approved identity-verification, consent, document-security, recordkeeping, disclosure and escalation procedures. This game is a practice aid, not those procedures.
AML duties require more training: Know the applicable identity, beneficial-ownership, third-party, ongoing-monitoring and reporting requirements. FINTRAC does not expect duplicate employee suspicious-transaction reports when the employer is actively reporting; an employee may have to report when the employer has not met the requirement.
Specialist situations: Private lending, construction, syndicated investments, complex corporate ownership, trusts, estate/family changes and unusual property risks need further competence, appropriate licence scope and specialist review. Do not infer authority from completing a game module.
Rules checked 2026-10-14. All commercial LTV, DSCR, cap-rate and mortgage-constant thresholds are supplied hypothetical assumptions, not universal rules.
- CMHC: Calculating GDS / TDS ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- FCAC: Preparing to get a mortgage ↗ (opens in a new tab)Budget and qualification are separate checks; no universal ratio limit inferred.
- OSFI: Minimum qualifying rate for uninsured mortgages ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- OSFI: Residential mortgage underwriting practices and procedures ↗ (opens in a new tab)Federally regulated financial institutions; not every Ontario lender.
- FCAC: Buying a home ↗ (opens in a new tab)Closing-cost categories and legal work, not a case-specific closing quote.
- FCAC: Borrowing against home equity ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- FCAC: Mortgage terms and amortization ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- FCAC: Breaking your mortgage contract ↗ (opens in a new tab)Contract-specific penalties, discharge, appraisal and other costs.
- OSFI: Revised Regulatory Notice on Commercial Real Estate Lending ↗ (opens in a new tab)Federally regulated institutions; underwriting, sensitivity and collateral diligence, not universal DSCR/LTV thresholds.
- CMHC: Financial viability (2008; stable definitions only) ↗ (opens in a new tab)Historical reference used for stable NOI/debt-service concepts only, never current programme criteria.
- CMHC/EY: 2024 Rental Housing Development Study, glossary ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- FSRA: New mortgage agent and broker licensing requirements ↗ (opens in a new tab)Level 1, Level 2 and broker lender scope and supervision.
- FSRA: Mortgage Product Suitability Assessment ↗ (opens in a new tab)Ontario suitability interpretation and supervisory expectations; includes renewals.
- FSRA: Detecting and Preventing Mortgage Fraud ↗ (opens in a new tab)Active published guidance, effective September 28, 2023; not the proposed guidance page.
- FSRA: Watch Out for Mortgage Fraud ↗ (opens in a new tab)Examples of inaccurate and fraudulent application information.
- FSRA: Mortgage brokerage disclosure requirements ↗ (opens in a new tab)Ontario disclosures, conflicts and secondary use of information; consult current regulations for transaction-specific timing and exceptions.
- FSRA: Working with a Mortgage Professional ↗ (opens in a new tab)Consumer explanation of role, risks, costs and conflicts.
- FCAC: Credit report and score basics ↗ (opens in a new tab)Credit access and consent; consent question is expressly Ontario.
- FCAC: Checking your credit report for errors and fraud ↗ (opens in a new tab)Disputing errors through credit bureaus and the reporting lender.
- FCAC: Getting preapproved for a mortgage ↗ (opens in a new tab)Preapproval is not guaranteed approval; lender definitions and property conditions vary.
- FCAC: Choosing a mortgage that is right for you ↗ (opens in a new tab)Mortgage features, flexibility and variable-rate payment risk.
- FCAC: Renewing your mortgage ↗ (opens in a new tab)Renewal preparation, switch costs and collateral charges; no universal switch stress-test rule inferred.
- CMHC: Self-Employed Mortgage Loan Insurance ↗ (opens in a new tab)CMHC programme documentation; other lenders and insurers may differ.
- CMHC: Mortgage Application Tips ↗ (opens in a new tab)Illustrative document categories and non-repayable gift evidence; no universal document-age rule.
- CMHC: Multi-unit Required Documentation Guide ↗ (opens in a new tab)CMHC multi-unit applications only; not a universal commercial-lender checklist.
- FINTRAC: Mortgage administrators, brokers and lenders ↗ (opens in a new tab)Mortgage-sector obligations effective October 11, 2024; determine reporting-entity status and applicable responsibilities.
- FINTRAC: Reporting suspicious transactions ↗ (opens in a new tab)Reasonable-grounds-to-suspect threshold, attempted transactions, timing and employee reporting responsibilities.
- CMHC: Purchase mortgage loan insurance ↗ (opens in a new tab)Current homeowner purchase programme: eligibility, minimum equity, below-$1.5m cap and premium schedule. Not all borrowers/properties qualify.
- Department of Finance: Delivering the Boldest Mortgage Reforms in Decades ↗ (opens in a new tab)Official high-LTV purchase rule changes effective December 15, 2024; eligible property value must be less than $1.5m.
- FCAC: How much you need for a down payment ↗ (opens in a new tab)Used for the current down-payment table, lender-protection explanation and premium financing.This page contains an older $1 million exclusion alongside its newer table. For the current purchase-price boundary, use the linked CMHC Purchase guidance and Department of Finance reforms: the insured homeowner purchase price must be below $1.5 million.
- CMHC: Mortgage loan insurance costs ↗ (opens in a new tab)Premium calculation and Ontario premium sales tax exclusion from loan amount. No claim is made about other provinces or that insurance always saves money.
- Ontario Ministry of Finance: Insurance and Benefits Plans ↗ (opens in a new tab)8% RST on taxable insurance premiums; no exemption applies in these exercises.
- FCAC: Interest on mortgages ↗ (opens in a new tab)Variable rates with fixed payments, trigger points and possible payment changes; the mortgage contract determines the applicable terms.
Fictional scenarios for educational practice. Not personalized financial, legal or licensing advice, an official licensing course, or an approval. Rules and lender policies can change: check the linked sources and current brokerage guidance for real files. No client details needed.