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Question 1: When must the Truth In Lending Disclosure be given to the borrower?
Answer:
within 3 business days after receiving a consumer's app. for a mortgage loan and before any fees are collected from borrower (except reasonable credit report charges)
Question 2: what are per-texting provisions?
Answer:
prohibits certain practices designed to access confidential customer information.
Question 3: Define a Broker
Answer:
licensed individual/firm that charges a fee to serve as the mediator between buyer & seller. in business of arranging funding or negotiating contracts for a client but don't lend money.
Question 4: define Loan Prospector (LP)
Answer:
Freddie Mac's mortgage software program that gives its lenders an idea if a potential borrower is a good risk for the extension of credit
Question 5: what is a portfolio lender?
Answer:
lenders who make loans w/own funds and keep them on company books. don't sell them off in secondary market.
Question 6: what is a Backward Application?
Answer:
after identifying property to purchase, borrowers customize their income to meet loan criteria
Question 7: what is High Loan To Value (HLTV)
Answer:
HLTV mortgage/home equity loan is one that equals or exceeds the value of the borrower's home. Also known as Negative Equity Mortgage
Question 8: what is the purpose of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)?
Answer:
requires lender to disclose its privacy policies and info. sharing practices to every customer at time of opened and each year thereafter. enforced by FTC
Question 9: Promissory Note
Answer:
written promise to repay a debt. One person/entity loans another money, and the other signs a promissory note, promising to repay the loan (plus interest).
Question 10: What is DTI (Debt To Income)?
Answer:
comparison ratio of gross income to housing and non-housing expenses.Question 11: The ECOA (REG.B) prohibits discrimination against whom when applying for credit and/or extensions of credit
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Race, religion, receipt of income from public assistance, sex marital status, national origin, color, and/or age
Question 12: what are the 4 C's of underwriting?
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Capacity (income), Character (credit history), Capital (cash savings), and Collateral (property value).Question 13: What is the amount/percentage added to the index at each adjustment interval to determine the new interest rate to be paid by the borrower?
Answer:
The Margin. This remains constant over the life of the mortgage. Index rate+margin=interest rate.
Question 14: what is a due on demand clause?
Answer:
mortgage clause that allows Lender (at any time) can require borrower to full repayment of loan immediately.
Question 15: what is a closed-end mortgage?
Answer:
cannot be prepaid, renegotiated, or refinanced w/out paying breakage costs to lender. also prohibit pledging collateral that has already been pledged to another party.
Question 16: what is Certificate of Reasonable Value (CRV)
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based on an appraiser's estimate of the value of the property to be purchased
Question 17: Adjustable Rate Mortgage (FHA 251)
Answer:
helps to keep mortgage interest rates and payments low they may change over the life of the loan. Max fluctuation amount in interest-rate in any given year is 1% point. and Life of loan is 5% points.
Question 18: What is American Land Title Association (ALTA)?
Answer:
The association develops ALTA title insurance forms used voluntarily by title insurers and works to develop a better understanding of its industry among those who use land title services
Question 19: Conventional Sub-prime Loan
Answer:
Mortgage loan made to individuals who don't qualify for loans that may be sale-able to Fannie or Freddie.
Question 20: define Service Release Premium (SRP)
Answer:
income paid to a bank when it sells a mortgage with a higher than par rate into the secondary market
Question 21: define Yield Spread Premium (YSP)
Answer:
used by a mortgage broker to make a profit or used to pay for a borrower's closing costs on a loan.usually calculated as % of loan amount & paid to the broker by a 3rd party
Question 22: what loans require an escrow/impound account?
Answer:
insured conventional loans (exceeding LTV of 80%), all FHA/VA loans require borrower to escrow for property taxes and homeowners' insurance.
Question 23: According to the FACT Act what is required by creditors?
Answer:
Requires creditors to make certain disclosures regarding a borrower's credit history.Question 24: what does HOEPA (Homeownership and Equity Protection Act) Section 32 NOT apply to?
Answer:
Residential Mortgage transaction (pg. 95), reverse mortgage, and open-end credit plan (traditional home equity line of credit).
Question 25: define Prepayment Penalty
Answer:
is a charge for paying off the loan early