Starting July 1st Chase continued down their path of their slowest merger ever with EMC (Guinness Book of World Records currently weighing out if they qualify for any records). By Chase opening up their Collections Department and other Loss Mitigation Departments to this they hope to start servicing their EMC portfolio in order to...
Chase, one of the mega Goliaths in the mortgage servicing industry is about to start a major renovation on their phone systems. In a conversation the other day with a representative in the Executive Office it was divulged to one of our negotiators that there were going to be some major changes in the phone...
When everyone talks about the great short sale deals I don’t think they have frequented the 21st Century Mortgage area of the business. If this business has gotten any better in some places it’s definitely gotten worse in others. Strange as it may seen we have come across some awkward negotiators but 21st Century...
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...
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...
Similar to the Indymac non-owner occupied or investment loan modifications are rare at most lenders unless you know the right people. Well at Chase this is no exception. Chase has adopted many of it’s own practices from the new current HAMP/Government program. These modifications are actually completed under Chase’s slightly adjust guidelines but has...
We’ve been dealing directly with loss mitigation for just about a decade now. With direct stories coming from our experiences on the front lines we have seen that Chase, specifically confirmed with the Washington Mutual twice, we were advised that money needed to be paid to second non-attached loans. In many cases these were...
In the shopping spree that incited in 2008 with the collapse of the mortgage/lending industry, Bank of America (now operating as BAC Loan Servicing), purchased an asset called Merrill Lynch. Under that umbrella they picked up several subsidiaries of which one of those was known as Wilshire Credit Corporation. In some unusual events IBM at the end...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife FHA, one of the nation’s largest insurer of mortgage loans (if not the largest insurer to borrowers of a greater risk), every so often comes out with new guidelines that largely influence the way the real estate business gets done. Recently there were some moves to try to strengthen...