With low rates and refinances slowing down turn times in the middle of the summer selling season, changes may be coming that are most likely not on your radar. Depository institutions may want to begin to develop a strategy for Transitional Licensing Authority that could change the originator pool. The real estate industry is being sued for anti-competitive practices and NAMB is calling for Congress to open the SAFE ACT! What has me interested is …
Tomorrow night I will be speaking at the CT Mortgage Association event at The Library Wine and Bistro in Wallingford, CT. Since I posted the event, I have received questions about the topics. It occurred to me that while I am researching all new things mortgages, most originators, managers and companies are focused on closing loans. So here is a brief summary. If you’re in the CT area and want to hear more, come tomorrow …
It’s December 2019. Your entire origination staff just got Certified by a 25 year mortgage veteran. Your underwriting conditions are cut in half due to less touches on more profitable files. Your customer service has improved dramatically and the stress level with all employees is greatly reduced. Not to mention, there is a significant reduction in potential compliance issues. New applications are increasing because originators are not babysitting files with more time to originate new …
The Mortgage Professional Program Starting May 1, 2019 What if I told you, you could get 25 years of experience in nine months? And what if during this time of learning and growth you were challenged, you learned how to think differently…work more efficiently, more profitably and even build loyalty with your customers? And just suppose you were willing to devote 60 hours of time over the next nine months to master what it takes …
The FHA Single Family Handbook has been updated. Check out the complete list of changes. Some highlights include an update to the legal age for members of an LLC, an update to the standard to limit non-commission employees to those employees that perform underwriting or quality control activities, that Mortgagees must report employee compensation following IRS requirements, as well as providing guidance on the use of Third Party Verifications, (TPV) services to verify borrower’s employment, …
We like less confusing! Right after I finished my Only Three Conditions on the First Underwrite webinar today I received a FNMA update. Thank you Fannie Mae. In response to feedback from lenders and technology providers, Fannie Mae has rewritten and simplified the DU Validation Service messages. According to their release today, the DU 10.3 update replaces 41 current messages with 11 messages, including changes for findings regarding commission income, as well as some updates …
Our CLOES.online Mortgage Professional Program is coming soon and I am in “content hell” but, happy to say with light at the end of the tunnel. The program will be available April 1, 2019 but there is one area I want to share because we are in tax season and it may be helpful, a sneak preview! Mortgage Practices 1 includes an episode on Mortgage Math & Income Calculations, with a detailed review of tax …
At the 2019 NMLS User’s Conference in Orlando, FL., I participated on a panel with state regulators and a compliance attorney about how working together can improve NMLS approved Continuing Education. If educators could obtain the results of federal and state regulator’s examinations and investigations, could we could make Continuing Education more meaningful and engaging? Examinations (which are performed routinely) and investigations, (which are a result of a consumer or competitor’s complaints) are enforcement cases …
Continuing Education and the Supervisory Process Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista1751 Hotel Plaza Boulevard, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 32830 For the past three years, SRR has been working with the Multi-state Mortgage Committee (MMC) to understand and identify reoccurring problems discovered on mortgage exams that can be addressed through annual continuing education (CE) process. Now in its third year, this session will explain how SRR, the MMC, and continuing education providers are working together to …
Charter Oak Systems, LLC and CLOES.online is pleased to announce the National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB) now offers a new Online, On Demand Video-Recorded course, Mortgage Professional Practices. NAMB is committed to continuing to build a robust, education platform to support the professionalism of all mortgage originators. Most originators agree, none of us were really ever educated. Yes, we got on-boarding, prospecting, internal systems, policies and procedures training but, where would we have gone …
The National Association of Mortgage Professionals recently announced its newest offering! NAMB will offer members discounts on NMLS Pre-licensing education. The 20-hour NMLS approved PE course is online, on demand. Start and Watch Anytime! NMLS Approved Course ID#7366
CLOES.online has several options to complete 2018 NMLS Approved C.E. For states with no additional requirements, take the 8-Hour SAFE Comprehensive. For Florida state license renewals here is the FL 8-Hour CE. For all other states take the 7-Hour CORE, then click here to register for other state C.E. • Courses must be completed within 24 hours from when you complete the BioSig. • Plan time to learn. • Be strategic in selecting your starting time. …
November 24, 2019 – That’s not a typo, yes, it’s one year away! Did you know federal law mandates states implement “transitional licensing authority” by November 24, 2019? If you manage originators in a depository, have you considered if this will impact you and if so how? How about recruiters for non-depositories? Will bank or credit union originators, want to move? Will non-depository lenders start to aggressively recruit? Should depositories empower their originators NOW to …
Did the game just change? For the sake of full disclosure, I am an originator, course developer and trainer. I think you may want to read the recently released guidance. This is not a secret. Consumers do not know the differences between “individual originators,” registered or licensed or brokers, lenders or banks. They think we all do the same thing with a similar level of knowledge. It’s just one reason why there were so many problems leading up …
Mortgage professionals may want to know what the government is asking your borrowers after closing. Recently the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released a new loan-level dataset, for public use; a compilation of data collected through the National Survey of Mortgage Originations (NSMO). The NSMO is a component of the National Mortgage Database (NMDB®). It is the first comprehensive repository of detailed mortgage loan information. The desired …