As of July 13th 2011 Bank of America received a new guidelines (or in the business it is called a directive) from our old pal Fannie Mae(FNMA). In this new guideline change they are requiring homeowners that look to go through the HAFA program to actually jump through several new hoops. One of those...
In recent history time has shown HSBC to be in the process of consolidating its mortgage divisions. A recent letter sent out to our customers who have a mortgage that is being serviced by HSBC Mortgage Corporation division, in possibly yet another decline in their company standings, as many of the other HSBC divisions...
Chase, like many companies in its pursuit for improving how it does business, attempted to make some changes to Loss Mitigation Workout line up. Traditionally speaking the process goes from having a simple document collector and negotiator structure to trying to break down the whole system to a Multiple Stage Process (opener, negotiator, closer,...
Chase is seemingly not hurting these days as the recovery department is on a set course to collect a minimum of 70% for a full release of the deficiency balance to be released. Now to anyone paying 70K on a 100K debt is a savings of 30K (which by the way the IRS does...
Many different acronyms get thrown around frequently in the business world. The banking world being one of the largest cogs in private sector it is no wonder confronting your mortgage company and getting a clear understanding of what they are trying to say or who you should be dealing with is so crucial. Now...
BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP., or Bank of America, wants you to know what all those auto responders mean. In a recent email sent out on August 17, 2010, BAC sent a message about the changes that had taken place over a month ago on July 15th to their partner’s website (Equator.com). It goes into explaining...
Anyone riding the short sale pipeline may have seen many buyers getting antsy as we came to the end of the filing period for tax payers to cash in on those home buying incentives. Well many of those last-minute buyers can wipe the sweat off their brow along with saving a lot of short...
Many of our clients are receiving these days a Hardship Affidavit that seems like it is causing a storm of confusion. Even those in the industry find that they are not exactly sure what it is for. The “Affidavit” pronounced by many as ‘affidavid’ is basically a formal hardship letter to the lender advising...
Absolute Consultant Group (ACG), a leader in Loss Mitigation and Workout Negotiations, is reporting today that they received word from a Bank of America (BAC Home Loan Servicing LP) insider that there will be a new expansion into the Nationwide Homeownership Retention Program (NHRP). Most importantly these enhancements to the Attorney General’s program will be the addition...
Bank of America is accustomed to making mistakes but this latest one will be costing many of their short sales to get decline in error. In all the movement of trying to get everyone on the new equator system the lender seems to have lost track of things and has sent many of its...