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Mortgage Compliance

Duty to Serve

It sounds as though we may go back to the old military draft system. No, it’s only for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac requirements to provide programs to serve the needs of very low, low, and moderate-income home buyers. FHFA announced it is extending the deadline for comments on their Evaluation Guidance to meet these requirements from May 15th to…

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Mortgage Compliance

Protect Your Day 1 Certainty Relief

By now you’ve probably heard of Fannie Mae’s Day 1 Certainty Program to earn relief from certain origination reps and warranties. I hope so because it’s a good program for lenders to get a little relief when they produce quality loans. A lender, using a Fannie authorized third party verification company, can get complete relief from the reps and warranties…

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Mortgage Industry Trends

Vetting Your Vendors

As you may know, LoanLogics (the company I work for) is a vendor to the mortgage industry. We provide technology, technology platforms, and reporting, to lenders for quality and risk management, MERS reviews, correspondent lending, portfolio monitoring and much more. You can view all our services at our website. As a service provider we are required by our clients, under…

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Mortgage Industry Trends

Funny How Time Slips Away

It’s an old song, sung by performers like Elvis, Willie Nelson, and Al Green. They talk about what goes around, comes around, and sooner or later “you’re gonna pay” in love and in life. Things ain’t so different in business. If you do right by your customers, then they’ll do right by you. If you cut corners, look for shortcuts,…

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