Loan Products | firsttuesday Journal

MIP, PMI or neither?

by ft Editorial Staff | Mar 20, 2025 | Charts, Loan Products, Real Estate | 3

Which is better for first-time homebuyers reliant on mortgage insurance: MIP or PMI?

Predatory mortgages, discouraged by TILA section 32

by Carrie B. Reyes | Jan 15, 2024 | Feature Articles, Finance, Loan Products, Real Estate | 0

Learn what a Section 32 loan is, and why MLOs try to avoid originating these types of loans.

Section 32 disbursements, servicing and modification restrictions

by Carrie B. Reyes | Jan 2, 2024 | Feature Articles, Finance, Laws and Regulations, Loan Products, Mortgages, Real Estate | 0

Learn the ten prohibited lender actions which protect the borrower after origination of a high-cost (Section 32) consumer-purpose mortgage.

The points and fees test for Section 32

by Carrie B. Reyes | Dec 26, 2023 | Finance, Loan Products, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Learn when a consumer-purpose mortgage falls under Section 32 limitations and disclosure rules.

Form-of-the-Week: Further Encumbrance Consent, and Note Enforcement Provisions — Forms 410 and 418-5

by Amy Platero | Dec 21, 2023 | Finance, Forms, Loan Products, Real Estate | 0

These forms are used by a prospective junior lender or carryback seller when the real estate is encumbered by an existing first mortgage containing a due-on clause, to obtain consent from the lender holding the mortgage to further encumber the property with a second mortgage, and by a loan broker or escrow officer when originating a mortgage with the lender or carryback seller, to include a guarantee, exculpatory or governing law provision in the promissory note.

The APR Coverage Test: Part 2

by Carrie B. Reyes | Dec 18, 2023 | Feature Articles, Finance, Loan Products, Mortgages, Real Estate, Video | 0

Part 2 of this video series provides examples for how MLOs can determine whether a transaction is subject to Section 32 compliance.

Form-of-the-Week: Deed of Trust & Assignment of Rents, and All-Inclusive Trust Deed Addendums — Forms 450, 442 and 443

by Amy Platero | Dec 14, 2023 | Finance, Forms, Loan Products, Mortgages, Real Estate | 0

An agent or escrow officer uses these forms when a seller of property carries back an all-inclusive note and trust deed (AITD) evidencing a principal debt which includes the balance owed on an existing mortgage and a payoff demand.

May a second trust deed note holder on a call of a recourse note now unsecured due to foreclosure by the senior note holder, judicially collect the payment due on the call when monthly note payments are more than four years delinquent?

by David Swistock | Dec 7, 2023 | Finance, Laws and Regulations, Loan Products, Mortgages, Real Estate | 0

Piedmont Capital Management, LLC. v. McElfish

Form-of-the-Week: Agreement to Modify a Promissory Note, and Modification of the Promissory Note — Forms 426 and 425

by Amy Platero | Dec 7, 2023 | Finance, Forms, Loan Products, Mortgages, Real Estate | 0

These forms are used by a holder of a mortgage, their servicing agent or broker when arranging the modification of the mortgage note, to set forth the terms sought in the modification effort, to evidence the modification of the original note and state the change in terms of the note.

Form-of-the-Week: Trust Deed Listing, and Purchase Agreement for Note and Trust Deed — Forms 112 and 241

by Amy Platero | Dec 1, 2023 | Finance, Forms, Investment, Loan Products, Real Estate | 0

A trust deed broker uses these forms when employed by the holder of a trust deed note, to act as their exclusive agent to locate an investor and negotiate the terms for the sale of the note, and a loan broker uses these forms when arranging the purchase by a trust deed investor of an existing trust deed note held out for sale, to prepare an offer stating the price and conditions for purchase of the trust deed note.

A consumer mortgage becomes a Section 32

by Carrie B. Reyes | Nov 27, 2023 | Finance, Interest Rates, Loan Products, Mortgages, Real Estate | 0

A consumer-purpose mortgage origination secured by the borrower’s primary residence earns a Section 32 designation based on a three-step set of APR tests.