Bank of America certainly turned some heads last week when it told its retail loan officers nationwide that the lender will halt, for now, originations of cash-out refinancings, citing what it calls a “surge of refinancing activity” and capacity problems. A memo written by B of A home loans sales executive Matt Vernon notes...
In setting a new president starting today Aurora will not longer allow its loss mitigation (loan modification and short sale representatives) to message their processing department representatives. Due to the high volume they are being instructed to only transfer you to their voice mail and/or document the account that you called. They too along...
Wells Fargo has a long standing reputation to upkeep of being the fuddy duddy of the Loss Mitigation industry. I am sure that if they could convince people to submit their short sale and loan modification packages via the old horse drawn cart they would. Well in an unprecedented leap into the 20th century,...
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...
BankUnited, along with becoming defunct, has ceased completing it’s many of its own internal servicing procedures it has offer its investors in the past. One of the latest is that they are no longer processing short sales. In a strange turn of events BU is now working with a 3rd party service provider Nation...
Due to our volume of business with Bank of America we frequently get asked approximately how long it takes us to process a short sale with Bank of America or BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP and, like most lenders, who have a very large volume of short sales (which is most) Bank of America’s...
Realtors have told us the better they understand the counter offer process, the more successful they are in closing short sales. The following facts related to the counter offer process are critical to closing short sales in Equator. Fact #1: Your acceptance of the counter offer terms does not mean the transaction is approved...
Recently in conversations with a negotiator in the Freddie Mac department at Ocwen Mortgage we had an in depth conversation leading us to final result of having a full understanding of their break down paid to Jr. Lien holders. Frequently, lenders in specific, have what they call a “Martix”. The Matrix we are referring...
Often we receive the question of how a homeowner should write their hardship letter and we find that there is still no simple answer. Should I include if I didn’t file my taxes? What if I don’t know what a profit and loss is? Many times the answer is right there but simply needs...
Wachovia, in no new fashion of being over protective as they are already with their letter of authorization process, have been asking for additional informational when calling in as a 3rd party that just about no other lender does. In retrospect it is funny because even Wells Fargo who is notorious for their auditing...