Are You Ready for the New URLA? Starting January 2018, the newly redesigned uniform residential loan application (URLA) – also known as Fannie Mae Form 1003 – will have a cleaner look with more white space and a defined separation of borrower and lender information. It has also been updated so that it is compliant…
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg We hear about mortgage file quality control (QC) turn times of 60-90 days from other QC outsourcing…
The June issue of Servicing Management features the article Best Practices for Mortgage Boarding, Workflow Automation and Document Management written by Ruth Lee, our Sr. Director of Mortgage Services. Below is an excerpt of the article. Let us know if we can help you with any of the topics discussed. Article Excerpt A best practice…
MetaSource Study Finds 12 of Top 15 QC Issues Were TRID-Related Salt Lake City—Mortgage lenders found the federal “Know Before You Owe” mortgage disclosure rule—formally known as TRID—to be the source of most of their quality control (QC) headaches in 2016, the first full year of the rule’s implementation. TRID accounted for 12 of the…
Recently MERS sent an email to all General Members that are listed as the Servicer on 1,000 or more active MINs. This email notification was sent to inform these companies that beginning with the 2017 MERS® Annual Report, MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. will require that all Third Party Reviewers provide their electronic signature on the eAnnual…
With 2016 in the books, here is a look back on the top 15 mortgage quality control issues based on thousands of post-close QC audits that we performed over the past year. All but three are compliance and TRID related. While we did see a slowdown in TRID findings as the year progressed it does…
Mortgage QC, MERS & Workflow Automation Join us in booth #24 to learn about our mortgage loan quality, MERS quality assurance and workflow automation solutions that streamline and ensure quality control in step with the mortgage origination process as well as servicing these loans over their life. Our purpose is to provide solutions to ensure…
MetaSource Senior Director of Mortgage Services Ruth Lee recently attended the inaugural SourceMedia Digital Mortgage Conference in San Francisco. The following are her observations on the show and what the industry can take away from the event. The mortgage industry is hungry for digital solutions, and attendance at the first ever Digital Mortgage Conference, hosted…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued a final rule for mortgage servicers. The intention is to protect struggling borrowers, surviving family members and borrowers in bankruptcy from the threat of a swift foreclosure. The new rule also protects homeowners when their mortgage is transferred to another servicer. The following is an overview of…