Archive for January, 2009

Benefits of Using a Home Loan Calculator

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Davi db asked:


If you want to find out the current value of your home loan and how much interest they are paying you, then the fastest way is to use the Home loan Calculator. Different people opt for different options to assess and estimate the outcome of their saving investment. Home loan calculators helps to detail you the exact information related to your saving investment.

These calculators are very convenient to use, and are accessible for 24 hours a day. If you are a saving home loan holder, you will realize that you will be highly benefited from the usage of home loan calculator which is worthwhile. With this calculator, the value of the home loans can be estimated by a simple calculating process. It is the software program of the calculator that allows all users to decipher the value of their investment.

The Home loan Calculator is a great tool to use as it helps you prepare for the future. You can use it as often as you please with no charge. It keeps your personal information intact by making it convenient for you to calculate and find out the information that you want to know without actually having to pay a visit to the banks. This tool will tell you how much these home loans are earning you the interest. It is all set up and calculated in the home loan calculator and you no longer need to play a guess game.

They help in determining how much the saving home loans are earning you the profit. You may avail the services of the customer service online to get help with any questions that may crop up in your mind. In order to plan a comparison study and to go for further plan, this home loan calculator becomes easy with the use of internet.

A mortgage calculator serves as planning long term savings and estimating the expected return in future. They help to maintain a track record on the daily basis of the investment return.

In the world of saving home loans, to keep a constant track of the investment returns, home loan calculators are the easiest and fastest options. They not only provide you with the investment details but also alerts you and prepares you for the future endeavors.

Thus, a home loan calculator is a special device that is designed to help investors to monitor and calculate the value of the home loans and helps the saving home loan investors immensely either in a crisis or to sell the home loans at a profit.

Once you have ascertained the home loans available for purchase, this home loan calculator helps you to identify whether the particular investment is financially worthwhile. It also helps you to judge whether you must keep the saving home loan with you for long or sell it off within a shorter period of time.



Jerry

Should I work for a new loan modification company?

Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Information guru asked:


I have a temp agency who is trying to set me up with a temp to hire position in inside sales selling loan modification products to homeowners whose homes are about to go into foreclosure. I know there are a lot of homes right now going into foreclosure, but should I consider this opportunity? This is a new business getting started with seven reps that eventually will eventually expand to 30 reps. I may have the opportunity to get into management if I do well to begin.
In reference to first answer, this is one of the concerns I have had about the position.

Howard

Mortgage Loan Approval Sometimes Need a Human Touch

Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Kristin Abouelata - Home Loans asked:


In the mid 1990’s, the mortgage industry saw the credit score and its predictive power to assess a borrower’s ability to repay a mortgage step into the limelight as one of the most indicative factors for loan approval. After conducting statistical test after statistical test, Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie, the 3 big lending institutions, mandated that the credit score should be used in conjunction with manual underwriting to assess loan approval. Not too long after, automated underwriting systems (AUS) were developed that expedited and streamlined the underwriting process even further for lenders. A loan officer today simply inputs a borrower’s key information into the preferred underwriting automatic engine, such as his/her credit score, income, amount being borrowed, cash reserves, employment and housing history, and the value of the property. A response is returned by the underwriting engine recommending approval or denial for the loan.

If your loan receives a denial from an AUS, the buck doesn’t necessarily stop there. Life happens to people, and oftentimes it’s going to take a real live person understanding the nuances of a file to make an underwriting decision. That’s when your lender may suggest submitting your file to underwriting for a manual review. After all, not everything in life can be automatic, right?

A perfect scenario for a manually underwritten file would be someone who has no credit scores. No credit scores? Yes, it is possible. I’ve had customers who, being old school and always having paid for everything in cash, had never established traditional credit lines that reported to credit reporting bureaus. In a case such as this one, I had to submit non-traditional lines of credit to underwriting, something a machine can’t assess. This means I had my customer bring in bills he had paid on time for the past year to create a credit history. Typical ones used are car insurance, utility bills, cell phone bills and cable bills. You can expect to have to provide 3-4 different trade lines if you haven’t established a traditional credit history and score.

“The most typical reason we see a file submitted to us for manual underwriting is for either no credit score or an error reported on a credit report,” reflects Patricia Haynes, onsite Government Underwriter at Mortgage Investors Group. “For instance a judgement that doesn’t really belong to the borrower. Maybe it’s really Dad’s judgement reflected on the son’s report because Junior and Dad have the same name. That’s when I can overwrite an AUS decision because I have the documentation to support my decision to do so in front of me.”

Another very common reason to submit a loan for a manual underwrite is when your customer’s credit score is below 620 and gets an AUS denial. If this is the case with your loan, be prepared to provide more than average documentation about your credit history, as well as written explanations as to why your credit score has suffered recently. Maybe two years ago you had a financial meltdown due to a medical illness, but in the last twelve months, you can prove you are back on your game and have been repaying debt. However, your credit scores haven’t exactly caught up with your actions. An underwriter is going to piece together the different aspects of your file and see if it makes sense. Your home lender should be able to review your file and guide you as to what documentation an underwriter will want from you to grant you loan approval.

Naturally, if your credit score is really low and you have very little explanation for your state of credit affairs other than you failed to pay your bills on time, don’t hold your breath for loan approval. An underwriter can see through smoke and mirrors. After looking at files as long as they have, they can basically sniff out a loan that has merit from the ones that are too risky.

So, even as our world gets more and more automated every day, it’s nice to know that you can’t replace genuine common sense, even in the mortgage industry. And it’s nice to know that you can plead your case for credit worthiness to a real live human being.



Darryl