Tue, May 31 2011, 12:17 PM
Anyone lending in
"higher loan amount areas" should read the latest from HUD on the
probable/possible changes that will take place on October 1. "Ba...
Fri, May 27 2011, 9:21 AM
I saw a poor old lady fall over today on the
ice!! At least I presume she was poor - she only had $1.20 in her
purse.
That is probably not
eno...
Thu, May 26 2011, 10:32 AM
Sorry the commentary is a little late this
morning. My neighbor pounded on my wall at 2:30 AM this morning. Can you
believe that...2:30AM?! Luckily...
Wed, May 25 2011, 10:13 AM
Pssst... Goldman Sachs is in buying jumbo
mortgages . "Goldman has been stockpiling jumbo mortgages at a rate
that far exceeds the buying activity ...
Tue, May 24 2011, 11:16 AM
We can bicker over underwriting guidelines,
disclosure documents, or turn times, but the flooding and tornado disasters
that have befallen many stat...
Mon, May 23 2011, 11:29 AM
I don't know if this
quite falls under the "No good deed goes unpunished" category, but
the proposed simplified combined version of the GFE and TI...
Fri, May 20 2011, 12:18 PM
It is easy for originators to focus on daily
rate sheets, mostly determined by what the MBS market is doing. But sometimes
it helps to be reminded t...
Thu, May 19 2011, 10:03 AM
"Rob, I continue
to hear rumors about rumors of large established correspondent investors
possibly questioning their practice of buying closed loan...
Wed, May 18 2011, 9:58 AM
A hockey coach once said, "Last year we
couldn't win at home and we were losing on the road. My failure as a coach was
that I couldn't think of anyp...
Tue, May 17 2011, 12:08 PM
Sometimes you think
things are one way, and they turn out to be different. Just ask Maria Shriver,
who found out about Arnold Schwarzenegger and a l...
Mon, May 16 2011, 10:40 AM
Seen on a doc drawer's bulletin board:
"I don't mind coming to work. It's the 8 hour wait until going home
that's killing me."
Here is some new...
Fri, May 13 2011, 3:40 PM
We have 18 months until the presidential
election, and already things are heating up. The financial community is closely
following Donald Trump's ca...
Thu, May 12 2011, 11:21 AM
My memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Along those lines I bet all the reverse mortgage...
Wed, May 11 2011, 10:52 AM
Regardless of what my kids say,
this commentary hasn't been around long enough to have ever been written by
candlelight. But starting next year I wi...
Tue, May 10 2011, 10:31 AM
Yesterday
I went through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - which
are now the 5 stages of buying gas.
Incidents of mortga...
Mon, May 9 2011, 10:22 AM
Today the village of Plato, Mo.,
(population 109) will celebrate its selection as the "2010 Census Center
of Population" with a little party. "The m...
Fri, May 6 2011, 10:37 AM
The driving force behind Mother's
Day was Anna Jarvis, who organized observances in Grafton, W.Va., and
Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. As the annual ...
Thu, May 5 2011, 10:42 AM
Cinco de Mayo does not mark the
discovery of tequila, but instead celebrates the legendary Battle of Puebla on
May 5, 1862, in which a Mexican force...
Wed, May 4 2011, 8:47 AM
This plan
is simple, like my brother-in-law Tony. But unlike Tony, this plan just might
work.
When an
originator locks a loan with an investor o...
Wed, May 4 2011, 1:21 PM
Last month
marked the 151st anniversary of the Pony Express, the communications link from
St. Joseph to San Francisco. News and mail took 11 days (w...
Mon, May 2 2011, 9:18 AM
Occasionally
I receive e-mails that are worth saving. Like the one where someone wrote,
"Your vocabulary is as bad as, like, whatever." And some web...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 11:18 AM
Do boom
and bust cycles in real estate only happen in the United States? Of course not: Boom&Bust
Here's a campaign hitting the public: Zillo...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 10:32 AM
Fun with
numbers: Freddie Mac's mortgage delinquencies on single-family homes declined
in March from both month- and year-earlier levels. March's de...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 9:58 AM
Huh? Maybe Freddie and Fannie are
not going to evaporate, which many in the industry were not looking forward to
anyway: MSNBCAgencies
One se...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 9:53 AM
The trivia
for the day is, "Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is
attached at only one end." I bring this up because there will be ple...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 10:14 AM
In terms
of powerful world figures, how does the FDIC's Sheila Bair stack up against
Lady Gaga or Katie Couric? ForbesList
For the 1st quarte...
Fri, Apr 22 2011, 9:40 AM
For anyone out there who thinks
the mortgage biz in the US has become confusing, spend 15 seconds scrolling
down this story on establishing the mort...
Thu, Apr 21 2011, 10:41 AM
The
percentage of jumbo business that any originator does is, of course,
very dependent on location. But what are borrowers thinking when it comes...
Wed, Apr 20 2011, 11:33 AM
Lee Farkas, the former chairman
of Taylor, Bean and Whitaker Mortgage Corp., was found guilty on all 14 charges
stemming from a seven-year, multibil...
Tue, Apr 19 2011, 11:53 AM
We now live in a world with higher annual FHA premiums. Private MI companies, of course,
are understandably quick to point out the price difference w...
Mon, Apr 18 2011, 11:11 AM
This Friday is Good Friday. But today is not so "good" for our government,
as S&P cut its US debt rating outlook to a "negative"
given the debt & ...
Fri, Apr 15 2011, 9:35 AM
Two soap operas created more than
40 years ago, who taught us not to bother getting married since it's only going
to last until next season anyway, ...
Thu, Apr 14 2011, 10:58 AM
Yesterday
Reuters ran a story saying, "A proposed rule requiring a minimum 20% down
payment on mortgages that lenders could then sell to investors w...
Wed, Apr 13 2011, 10:33 AM
Let me add a clarification to
the Ops Manager job listing from yesterday . The company is merely shifting
responsibilities as they grow, and the ...
Tue, Apr 12 2011, 10:12 AM
I continue to receive input from
the origination "trenches. "'Safe Harbor' against the steering
provisions in the new LO Compensation regulation is ...
Mon, Apr 11 2011, 11:35 AM
Western Springs National Bank and
Trust (IL) was closed Friday by the OCC, which in turn appointed the FDIC as
receiver, which, in turn, entered int...
Fri, Apr 8 2011, 10:51 AM
Rain or shine, whether or not the
US government is closed or open, the US Treasury will be open next week to
auction off $32 billion in 3-yr notes, ...
Thu, Apr 7 2011, 10:36 AM
Did the
Texas owner of the company "America's Best Mortgage and Creative
Solutions" in St. Martinville, LA get a little too "creative"?
She is accu...
Wed, Apr 6 2011, 9:43 AM
Under the just-made-up category
of "If you can't build 'em, join 'em," Beazer Homes USA is
officially entering the rental business , as the home bu...
Tue, Apr 5 2011, 9:37 AM
Mark
Twain wrote, "The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is
that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
It is "tax time" for many
...
Mon, Apr 4 2011, 9:55 AM
Buffalo
Springfield wrote, "There's something happening here, what it is ain't
exactly clear..." But there is one movement that appears to be cleare...
Fri, Apr 1 2011, 4:04 PM
Yes,
the earlier commentary was the yearly April Fool's edition. But in the
"truth is stranger than fiction" category, the U.S. Court o...
Fri, Apr 1 2011, 2:35 PM
On the eve of being enacted, in a
surprise move, Senator Dodd called on Congress to rescind the Dodd-Frank
legislation , saying the rules and regul...
Thu, Mar 31 2011, 9:53 AM
Here's one succinct note that I received regarding Reg. Z: "I am really sick of this comp crap." Another
wrote, "Next week will be very exciting, a...
Wed, Mar 30 2011, 9:56 AM
Harkening back to the Prius'
brake recall issue, this bumper sticker was seen: "TOYOTA: Once you drive
one, you'll never stop." Pun aside, I would i...
Tue, Mar 29 2011, 9:53 AM
How much house is too much house in Michigan? 50 cent is only half of a dollar.
Today the FDIC Board will vote on a credit risk-retention prop...
Mon, Mar 28 2011, 10:30 AM
Did
anyone from your county move in 2008? It is not my job to keep track of them -
but someone does. Privacy issues aside, Realtors may find this in...
Fri, Mar 25 2011, 10:22 AM
According to a story in the Financial
Times , "The five biggest US mortgage servicers were told this week
at a private meeting with regulators ...
Thu, Mar 24 2011, 9:46 AM
Six Federal agencies have to sign
off on the QRM provisions, and apparently the first will be early next week. Early
next week the FDIC opines on, "...
Wed, Mar 23 2011, 11:34 AM
What am I
hearing out there? I am hearing, not officially, that wholesale reps are having
trouble drumming up business from brokers. Production esti...
