There are many components required to service a loan. Such components include:

  • Daily Activities
    • Receive payments and mail (insurance cancellations, code enforcement, borrower correspondence, etc.)
    • Process payments into servicing system
      • principal
      • interest
      • escrows for taxes and insurance if applicable
      • handling short payments according to your policy
    • Deposit checks to bank
  • Monthly Activities
    • reconcile bank statements
    • send checks to investor
    • provide accounting to investor
    • Make phone calls to customers who are late
    • Send 30-day notices to applicable borrowers
    • “Post” applicable borrowers for foreclosure at county courthouse who haven’t cured 30 day notice
    • Foreclose borrowers who have been “posted” and not cured
  • Annual Activities
    • Provide escrow analysis to borrower
    • Provide 1098 for interest paid to borrower and file with IRS
    • Provide 1099 for interest received to investors
    • Ensure property taxes are paid (whether escrowed or not)
    • Pay property taxes for escrowed properties
    • Pay hazard insurance premiums
  • As needed
    • Analyze problems with borrowers, and, negotiate/document solutions
    • Resell foreclosed properties
    • Customer service question answering for both borrowers and investors
    • Compute loan payoffs
    • Receive payoff funds and book to servicing system
    • Maintain an infrastructure
    • Move properties onto forced-placed insurance if borrower allows coverage to lapse
      • Office space
      • Phones
      • Internet
      • Copier
      • Office supplies
      • Utilities
      • Computers
      • Software
      • Payroll
      • Health ins
      • Vacation/sick coverage

    When choosing a servicing company, or, servicing program, you will need to decide what level of involvement you will personally have in your loan(s). Ready Mortgage Corp offers the following:

    Bronze – $62.50/mo

    • Receive payments
    • Book payments into servicing system
    • Online access to loan information and history
    • Annual escrow analysis
    • Annual 1098 to borrower and IRS
    • You are responsible for all other activities

    Silver – $100/mo

    • Receive payments
    • Book payments into servicing system
    • Online access to loan information and history
    • Make phone calls to borrowers who are late and provide record of their response
    • Send 30-day notices to borrowers who are late (atty fees still applicable)
    • Annual escrow analysis
    • Annual 1098 to borrower and IRS
    • You are responsible for all other activities

    Gold – $130/mo

    • Receive payments
    • Book payments into servicing system
    • Online access to loan information and history
    • Make phone calls to borrowers who are late and provide record of their response
    • Send 30-day notices to borrowers who are late
    • “Post” properties who do not cure the 30-day notice
    • Foreclose properties who do not cure for posting
    • Negotiate with borrowers and provide options and recommendations to owner for any issues that occur
    • Annual escrow analysis
    • Annual 1098 to borrower and IRS
    • You are responsible for all other activities

    Platinum – $200/mo

    • We handle everything including coordination of repair and resale if foreclosed
    • We will take responsibility for any lapsed insurance coverage

    Extra Services

    • $100 – load a new loan
    • $200 – coordinate a property purchase (including post-closing audit)
    • $800 – originate a consumer loan (not including broker fee)
    • $100 – draw (if work verification is performed)
    • $ 50 – draw (for no verification of work is performed)
    • $100 – payoff
    • $300 – complete a note sale
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