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What does TILA stand for? ✔✔Truth-In-Lending Act, Regulation Z
What is a HELOC loan? ✔✔a secured loan in that you are borrowing against the equity that has
been built in your house
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NMLS SAFE EXAM 2022 ALREADY
PASSED
What does TILA stand for? ✔✔Truth-In-Lending Act, Regulation Z
What is a HELOC loan? ✔✔a secured loan in that you are borrowing against the equity that has
been built in your house
What is a REFI loan? ✔✔
LTV stands for ✔✔Loan to Value
Define PMI and state what the acronym stands for. ✔✔Private mortgage insurance- on
conventional loans
Define one time variable funding fee and people in what situations is it waived for? ✔✔Disabled
veterans and surviving spouses.
USDA loans are also called what? ✔✔502 loans
Define MIP ✔✔Can be paid up front or in installments. Mortgage insurance premium used by
FHA to protect themselves against higher-risk borrowers who are more likely to default on loans
Define APR ✔✔annual percentage rate
Define APOR ✔✔average prime offer rateDefine HPML ✔✔High price mortgage loans or Section 35 loans. A mortgage with an annual
percentage rate (APR) that's higher than the average prime offer rate (APOR)
When is a loan considered to be a section 35 loan? (High price mortgage loan) ✔✔- When the
APR exceeds APOR by 1.5% on a first lien, 2.5% on Jumbo first lien or 3.5% on subordinate lien
What requirements are placed on section 35 loans? (High price mortgage loans) ✔✔APE
A- ATR / ability to repay
P- no PREPAYMENT penalty unless in the first 2 years
E- requires ESCROW of the taxes and hazard insurance for the first 5 years
Define ATR ✔✔Ability to repay
8 Factors of ATR ✔✔MICE DOES
M- Monthly mortgage
I- Income + assets
C- Credit history
E- Employment
D- Debt to Income Ratio
O- Other debts
E- Expenses
S- Simultaneous mortgage
What are section 32 loans? ✔✔High cost mortgage loans. Considered to be HCML when APR
exceeds APOR by 6.5% on first lien on loan $50,000 or higher, or 8.5% on first lien on a loan
that's less than $50,000 or 8.5% on subordinate lien.
What requirements are placed on Section 32 loans / HCML / High cost mortgage loans? ✔✔BAPS
B- no BALLOON payment
A- must have ATRP- no PREPAYMENT PENALTY
S- must SPEAK to a HUD counselor
What makes a complete application? ✔✔ALIENS
A- Address
L- Loan amount
I- Income
E- Estimated value
N- Name
S- Social security number
What is a 1003 and a 1004 form? ✔✔URLA - Uniform Residential Loan Application
and
URAR - Uniform Residential Appraisal Report
What is a 1005 and 1006 form? ✔✔VOE - Verification of employment
and
VOD - Verification of deposits (bank balance)
What is a 1008 form? ✔✔Transmittal summary. Top sheet! SUMMARY
What are the protected classes under ECOA AND Fair Housing Act? ✔✔- Sex
- Color
- National origin
- Race
Religion
What are the protected classes that are under ECOA but NOT Fair Housing Act? ✔✔- Maritial
status
- Age- Public assistance
What are the protected classes that are under Fair Housing Act but NOT ECOA? ✔✔- Familial
status
- Disability
What things are NOT included in the APR? ✔✔- Title insurance
- Escrow
- Notary fee
- Appraisal
- Credit report fee
- Termite inspection fee
- Seller credits
What makes a mortgage a qualified mortgage? (Rules of 3s) ✔✔- The point and fees of the
mortgage cannot exceed 3%
- The back end ratio cannot exceed 43%
- The prepayment penalty is limited to the first 3 year
- No terms over 30 years allowed
- No toxic features: no balloon payments, no interest only terms, no negative amortization
- Qualified mortgages has ATR
What documents must you keep for 5 years? ✔✔Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) and Closing
disclosure (CD)
What documents must you keep for 3 years? ✔✔- Loan Application Register (LAR)
- Loan Estimate (LE)
- Line of Credit (LOC)
What documents must you keep for 2 years? ✔✔everything thats not 5 or 3What documents must you keep for 25 months? ✔✔ECOA
Where can you find the NMLS # ✔✔PLAMT
- Promissory note
- 1003 URLA (Loan application
-Advertisements
- Mortgages
- Trust deeds
What are the flood zones? ✔✔High risk: A and V
Moderate risk: B and X
Low risk: C and X
RESPA Disclosures include the following: ✔✔KAMILAS
- Know before you owe handbook
- Affiliated business arrangement handbook
- Mortgage servicing disclosure statements
- Initial escrow
- List of HUD approved counselors
- Anual escrow
- Servicing transfer disclosure
-(GFE and HUD used for non purchases)
What is the penalty for violating GLB? ✔✔Up to 5 years and a fine
What is the penalty for violating RESPA? ✔✔up to $10,000 and/or 1 year
What is the penalty for sending an unauthorized fax? ✔✔$500What is the penalty for violating ECOA? ✔✔Up to $10,000
What is the penalty for violating TILA? ✔✔$5K for single violation
$25k for reckless violation
$1M per day of knowingly committing a violation
What is the penalty for violating SAFE Act? ✔✔Up to $30,058
What is the penalty for violating DNC? (Do not call list? ✔✔up to $43,280
What is the penalty for violating HMDA? ✔✔Based on the penalty matrix
What is the penalty for violating FACTA? ✔✔$5K and/or 1 year
What are the TILA disclosures? ✔✔A BRAWL on closed caption TV
B- Balloon notice
R- Right to rescind
A- ARM disclosure
W- When you're home is on the line disclosure
L- Loan estimate
C- Charm booklet
C- Closing disclore
T- Transfer or mortgage
What things have a 0% tolerance. ✔✔TRAIL
T- Transfer taxes
R- Credit Report
A- Appraisal
I- Interest rate
L- Loan originationWhat things have a 10% tolerance? ✔✔- Government reporting fee
- Title insurance or any service chosen by the borrower from the lenders recommended list
What things have no tolerance requirements? ✔✔TIP
- Termite inspection
- Insurance hazard and title
- Prepaid interest
Finance charges do not include.... ✔✔PANS BC
- Points paid by the seller
- Appraisal fee
- Notary fee
- Security interest charges, if itemized and disclosed
- Bona fide and reasonable fees
- Credit report fee
Which regulation is TILA? ✔✔Regulation Z
How long after a completed loan application must a LE be submitted? ✔✔3 days. If there are any
changes made to the information, you have 3 days to resend updated loan estimate
What is the absolute only thing a borrower can be charged for before receiving their loan estimate?
✔✔Credit report
There is a ____ day waiting period between receiving the loan estimate and consummation of the
loan. ✔✔7 day. (Can be waived by borrower in cases of bona fide personal financial emergency
which requires the transaction to close quickly; ex. foreclosure)the following fees may not vary at all from the amount set forth in the Loan Estimate (i.e., there is
zero tolerance) ✔✔- Fees paid to the creditor, mortgage broker, or an affiliate of either
- Fees paid for third-party provider services for which the consumer was NOT allowed to choose
the provider
- Transfer taxes
A Loan Estimate is good for how many days? ✔✔10
The three circumstances under which a revised Closing Disclosure must be issued and the waiting
period restarted are as follows: ✔✔- The loan's disclosed APR becomes inaccurate
- Changes in the terms of the loan product offered
- Addition of a prepayment penalty
A Closing Disclosure must be provided no less than ____ business days prior to consummation.
✔✔3
ECOA Valuations rule: ✔✔Lenders have 3 days from application to notify a borrower of their
right to a copy of their appraisal and lenders must provide promptly upon completion or at least 3
days prior to close whichever is earlier. Borrowers can waive the timing requirement and accept
the appraisal at closing.
(If the loan does not close, and they signed a waiver you have 30 days to provide the applicant
with a copy.)
What HMDA mean? ✔✔The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (Regulation C)
- requires lenders to report data regarding its mortgage lending activity
Dwellings subject to HMDA reporting requirements include: ✔✔VIRM
- Vacation or second homes.
- Individual condominiums or cooperative units
- Rental properties- Manufactured homes and mobile homes
Define FCRA ✔✔The Fair Credit Reporting Act (Regulation V) regulates consumer credit
reporting agencies
Define the MAP Rule ✔✔Mortgage Acts and Practices Advertising Rule (Regulation N) is a
federal rule governing the advertising of mortgage products
Define E-Sign Act ✔✔The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-Sign
Act) governs the circumstances under which electronic signatures may be accepted on certain
disclosures and document
Define a straw buyer ✔✔a person who purchases the property or applies for the loan in his or her
own name for the actual borrower
Define silent seconds ✔✔arrangements in which the borrower obtains a second, undisclosed and
unrecorded loan directly from the seller and uses this to help cover a down payment and closing
costs on the purchase loan from a lender
Fraud for housing vs Fraud for profit ✔✔fraud for property, involves a borrower lying about his
or her income and/or assets in order to qualify for a mortgage loan
vs
may involve a number of individuals (e.g., the seller, the mortgage licensee, an appraiser)
- Occupancy fraud (i.e., a representation that the buyer will reside in the property when that is not
the case)
- Documentation fraud
- Appraisal fraud (i.e., the use of an inflated appraisal to secure a larger loan or to flip a property)
Mortgage loan fraud is punishable by: ✔✔-For making a fraudulent or false statement, up to five
years in jail and/or a $100,000 fine-For submission of a false mortgage loan application, conspiracy to commit fraud, or bank fraud,
up to 30 years in jail and/or a $1 million fine
Define The GLB Act ✔✔The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Regulation P)
enacted to protect the privacy of consumer personal information
Define Nonpublic Personal Information (NPI) ✔✔any personally-identifiable financial
information that a financial institution obtains in connection with providing a financial product or
service
Define Personally-identifiable financial information ✔✔Information provided to a financial
institution by a consumer in connection with a credit transaction.
- ex. name, address, Social Security Number, or other information on a loan application
- Account numbers, payment history, loan balances, deposit balances, or credit card purchases
- A credit report
Flood insurance must be purchased from who? ✔✔NFIP National flood insurance program
What is the minimum and maximum amount of flood insurance needed? ✔✔Min = 100,000
Max = 250,000
What are the 4 elements of a valid contract? ✔✔competent parties, mutual agreement, legal object
and consideration
What're are the front end and back end ratios for conventional loans? ✔✔28% front end and back
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