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...
Starting last month CitiMortgage, a CitiGroup company, is one of the few lenders that allow the homeowners to call in and verbally authorize the lender to speak to their 3rd parties as opposed to having to submit this in writing. Most lenders allow for a 1 time verbal authorization but in many cases it...
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...
We receive frequent inquiries from our readers and our clients regularly about finding assistance for their Multi-unit properties. While there are programs for non-owner occupied properties or investor properties the treasury has made sure that the HAMP, which only focuses on primary residences, takes into consideration those that do live in their Multi-unit residences....
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...
Needless to say CalHFA’s review of loan modification is weak and at best they don’t even look to see if you have your basic requirements for living are met. Many times you will find that they will go through multiple level’s of management prior to actually making approvals on loan modifications, same goes as well for...
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...
Our customers who make their mortgage payments online to Wachovia (now part of the Wells Fargo family of owned companies) from time to time find that their account will generally make have some changes made to their file in Wachovia’s online payment system when applying for different types of mortgage workouts. It is not...
How do I complete my portion of the short sale gets asked a lot by homeowner who are having trouble moving forward on their short sales. There are many reasons for hang ups but one of the number one reasons is the incomplete filling out of the Customer Portal. There is a need to convert documents...
Recently as of 10-21 a notification was sent out to all Bank of America homeowners about changes that were taking place on their accounts. Well if your clients are anything like ours you’ll note that some how hundreds of people did not get this letter in the mail. Either because Bank of America foresaw...