New MDIA Pushes Automation

Contributed by The National Mortgage News

The new Mortgage Disclosure Information Act is prompting many lenders to lean hard on their document preparation providers to help them comply through automation.

MDIA is a huge catalyst in the process of furthering marketwide e-disclosure adoption, according to Don Iannitti, president and CEO at DocMagic. “DocMagic [...]

IT Implements New DO Account Procedures

Please be advised that due to the number of individuals using the same log on information to pull Desktop Originator (”DO”) from our corporate account we have been forced to disable the corporate account effective Friday, 8/28/2009. In the future FNMA will issue individual user ID’s for each employee. Please call AMB’s IT Department for [...]

How to Photograph a Home

June Fletcher wrote a great article for The Wall Street Journal offering tips on how to take better photos of homes. The story is very useful to real estate agents and FSBO’s. Help out your sellers and agents by pointing them here. Here is a reprint of an article based on a story from The [...]

Great News from HUD

Contributed by the NAMB

On August 21, 2009, the recently appointed Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner David Stevens met with leaders of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB) to discuss mortgage broker participation in the FHA program.  Stevens has a long history of working with mortgage brokers in private industry.  The meeting was very positive [...]

Making an Impression in Less than 10 Minutes

It took me less than 10 minutes to create this home video. How do you think your real estate agents would respond?

How Long can I Keep a Loan File Active?

Sol Nicoletti wrote to ask:

Hi all! I am going through my pipeline and prospect folders now to move old files to the withdrawn folder. If possible PLEASE don’t move my files. I will be glad to make any changes that need to be done. Please note, that sometimes I may work with a borrower [...]

What Every First-Time Buyer Needs to Know

Contributed by Garrett A. Foster, Compliments of the Orlando Sentinel

Meet fictional 34-year-old identical twin brothers Fred and Ted.
Fred is a marketing manager for an import-export company. Ted is a social worker at a non-profit agency. Both are single and considered to be smart, successful guys. While Fred’s annual salary is nearly four [...]

Colonial Bank Sold to BB&T – Warehouse Lines in Doubt

Reuters reported on August 14 that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (”FDIC”) will take Colonial Bank Group into receivership and sell the bank’s assets to BB&T Corp.  This would be the largest bank failure since Wachovia Bank was put into receivership last September.

Apparently BB&T Corp. did not acquire any assets and [...]

Watch What You Say on Your Social Media Site

Contributed by brad Finkelstein, Compliments of Broker Universe

Many people associate the Internet with the Wild West – a lawless place where almost anything goes, including trampling over copyrights.

In reality, said several experts on the topic, that is not the case. Furthermore, be careful, what you post on a social network site can come [...]

How do Homebuyers Choose a Lender?

Contributed by Ameen Kamadia

Interesting question. And the answers will surprise you.But before I give you the answers, what do you think are the main reasons people choose a mortgage lender? Come on, think a little.I asked a few brokers in my office, and here were the top three responses:

Lowest rate/fees
Referred
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What are your top [...]