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Mortgage Loan Quality

Are You Just a Defect Monitor?

You’ve probably seen the commercials on TV with a bank security guard or a guy looking like a dentist, where they say they are just a ‘monitor’ but don’t do anything about what they find. It’s funny for a commercial, but not so funny to the bank or the patient needing dental work. Today, with so much emphasis placed on…

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Mortgage Loan Quality

What’s Your Defect Management Plan of Action?

Over the past few years, lenders should have realized the importance of the quality of the loans they originate and why these need to be done in compliance with all the rules. We’ve seen that lenders originating large volumes of poor quality loans are susceptible to huge fines, loan indemnifications, and repurchases. In some cases, such lenders have originated themselves…

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Mortgage Loan Quality

In Search of Defect Clarity

In the interests of time, expense and competition, FHA and Private MI companies offered lenders a delegated process for loan insuring. This was great for everyone until the spit hit the fan in 2007. All of a sudden, these loan insurers were carefully reviewing every detail of each defaulted loan to identify any possibility of a lender’s failure to strictly…

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