08/01/2002
HUD has published a proposal to make significant changes to the Good Faith Estimate that lenders issue within three days of taking an application. HUD calls this a "simplification" of the GFE.
07/01/2002
No matter how you count or measure compliance risk, Truth in Lending has led the list for decades. The number of errors that translate into violations is always high.
07/01/2002
Is there a simplified summary of the current, pending HOEPA changes/regulations, pertinent to a mortgage nondepository lender?
06/17/2002
If a borrower is in title to property and we are doing a construction loan 12 months or under, are we required to do an early TIL?
05/06/2002
I have read the article by Mary Beth Guard on <a href="http://www.bankersonline.com/operations/cissoffsets.html">"Offsets Against Social Security Payments"</a>. At the end she asked two important questions, which have triggered questions I have. 1) Aren't Overdraft privileges and outstanding overdraft fees, extensions of credit? and therefore, 2) What about Reg B a) cannot discriminate on basis of Age (over 62), most SS recipients are over 62; and b) part or all of income derives from public assistance (both SS and SSI are public assistance)? Can you clarify these issues?
05/06/2002
We are confused as to what is considered a prequalification and what is an application. According to your definition it's a prequalification if a specific property is not identified. We have a situation where a borrower came in and got prequalified without a specific property in mind. At this point we are classifying the file as a prequalification. Several days later he calls and says he has found a property and is signing the purchase agreement that day. Our loan officer does not send out disclosures until a week later when she gets the purchase agreement. Should her three days have started when he told her he had found a property and was signing the purchase agreement? Our loan officer is saying that the borrower did not state the specific address (the loan officer did not ask for it either). Therefore our loan officer said it was still a prequalification until she received the purchase agreement. Is the loan officer correct? If it is not considered an application until we have the specific address what obligation do we have to ask for the address? This loan officer also stated that she never does the disclosures until she has a purchase agreement. Any information you have on a prequalification versus application and when we are required to send disclosures would be great. We argue about this all the time!
03/11/2002
When would the Right of Rescission begin in the following scenario? This involves closing of a home improvement loan. The situation is out of the norm, where documents were taken out of the attorney's office for additional signatures. Customer comes in November 15th to sign papers. However, in this case, a second signature is required on the deed of trust only, not the note, which also must be notarized and the right of rescission notice must also be disclosed to this individual. All documents in question were taken for signature. If upon return of documents, the Rescission notice was dated showing receipt as of the 15th but the D/T was signed and notarized 2 days later, for example on Saturday Nov. 17th, would your rescission period begin the Friday Nov. 16th or Monday Nov. 18th. I believe ROR should begin the latter to occur of consummation of loan documents (signing the loan documents), delivery of ROR notice or delivery of material disclosures. In this case, applicant's signing)
02/11/2002
I am unsure what type of service providers we need a confidentiality agreement with. Some examples are: appraisers, realtors, surveyors, Insurance underwriters, Inspection companies, title companies, janitroial services, attorneys used for legal purposes for the financial insitution, attorneys used for title searches and other legal work involving a loan, Insurance companies use to obtain insurance coverage for the bank.
10/01/2001
I just reviewed a study on stress in the workplace.
10/01/2001