Last week we talked to Brian Koss, executive vice president of Mortgage Network, about the industry’s growing frustration with the ever-expanding number of documents going into a typical mortgage application
Last week we talked to Brian Koss, executive vice president of Mortgage Network, about the industry’s growing frustration with the ever-expanding number of documents going into a typical mortgage application.
Koss said the growing size of typical applications made them unduly burdensome to both originators and consumers, and blamed a constant stream of new regulation and litigation for the mountains of paperwork.
“It’s not like one regulation is causing it. It’s the fact that it’s a never-ending litany of legislation and litigation that drives every form that we have, so god forbid we ever take a form out,” Koss said. “Practically every form can be tracked back to a lawsuit that was filed.”
Bottom line, Koss said: Mortgage applications were getting too long and too complex to benefit the average consumer. And apparently MPA readers agreed.
Reader Nancy felt Koss’ pain dealing with reams of paperwork.
“I just uploaded an FHA loan (package) to a lender yesterday & it was 310 (pages),” she wrote. “Absolutely ridiculous!”
“I've been in the industry 15 years and the past 4 have been anything but easy,” MPA reader Bill posted. “The FEDS have lost all control of common sense.”
Edward also thought the amount of paperwork in most loan applications could be slashed drastically.
“Twenty-seven years in the business has revealed to me that borrowers want to know three things: what is my interest rate? what is my payment? how much will it cost?” he wrote. “The rest of the disclosures make them yawn and their eyes glaze over. If the legislators would start from this premise they could eliminate 3/4 of the unnecessary paperwork. Of course this would put many regulators and lawyers out of a job so there would be much resistance to any simplification. But so be it. This business does not have to be so difficult.”
Koss said the growing size of typical applications made them unduly burdensome to both originators and consumers, and blamed a constant stream of new regulation and litigation for the mountains of paperwork.
“It’s not like one regulation is causing it. It’s the fact that it’s a never-ending litany of legislation and litigation that drives every form that we have, so god forbid we ever take a form out,” Koss said. “Practically every form can be tracked back to a lawsuit that was filed.”
Bottom line, Koss said: Mortgage applications were getting too long and too complex to benefit the average consumer. And apparently MPA readers agreed.
Reader Nancy felt Koss’ pain dealing with reams of paperwork.
“I just uploaded an FHA loan (package) to a lender yesterday & it was 310 (pages),” she wrote. “Absolutely ridiculous!”
“I've been in the industry 15 years and the past 4 have been anything but easy,” MPA reader Bill posted. “The FEDS have lost all control of common sense.”
Edward also thought the amount of paperwork in most loan applications could be slashed drastically.
“Twenty-seven years in the business has revealed to me that borrowers want to know three things: what is my interest rate? what is my payment? how much will it cost?” he wrote. “The rest of the disclosures make them yawn and their eyes glaze over. If the legislators would start from this premise they could eliminate 3/4 of the unnecessary paperwork. Of course this would put many regulators and lawyers out of a job so there would be much resistance to any simplification. But so be it. This business does not have to be so difficult.”
