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<commentText>This Amendment No. 4 ("Amendment No. 4") is filed by the undersigned Reporting Persons and amends the statement on Schedule 13D filed initially with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 17, 2020, as subsequently amended (as amended, "Schedule 13D"), with respect to the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Common Stock"), of Velocity Financial, Inc. (the "Issuer"). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined in this Amendment No. 4 have the meanings set forth in the Schedule 13D.  The Reporting Persons did not acquire or dispose of any shares of Common Stock. This Amendment No. 4 is filed solely to disclose a change from Amendment No. 3 in the percent of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Reporting Persons resulting solely from a change in the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock outstanding reported by the Issuer in its Form 10-Q filed on August 8, 2025, with the SEC.</commentText>
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&#13;
	The responses of the Reporting Persons to Rows 11 and 13 (including any related Comment) on the cover pages of this Amendment No. 4, as of August 12, 2025, are incorporated herein by reference.  As of August 12, 2025, the Reporting Persons beneficially owned 13,353,103 shares of Common Stock in the aggregate, which represents 34.7% of the shares of the Common Stock outstanding, calculated pursuant to Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, based on 38,438,579 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of July 31, 2025, as disclosed by the Issuer in its Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 8, 2025.</percentageOfClassSecurities>
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	The responses of the Reporting Persons to Rows 7, 8, 9, and 10 (including any related Comment) on the cover pages of this Amendment No. 4, as of August 12, 2025, are incorporated herein by reference.</numberOfShares>
<transactionDesc>Item 5(c) of Schedule 13D is supplemented as follows: &#13;
&#13;
	None of the Reporting Persons, or, to the knowledge of the Reporting Persons, any other person named in Item 2 of the Schedule 13D, effected any transaction in the Common Stock during the past 60 days.</transactionDesc>
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<title>Alan Mantel / Authorized Signatory</title>
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<signature>/s/ Alan Mantel</signature>
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<signature>/s/ Alan Mantel</signature>
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<signature>/s/ Alan Mantel</signature>
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<date>08/12/2025</date>
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<signature>/s/ Alan Mantel</signature>
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<signature>/s/ Alan Mantel</signature>
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