Mortgage Lenders Generally Support a DTI ‘Right to Cure’
July 7, 2014
A diverse group of mortgage lending industry representatives including Realtors, credit unions and behemoth Bank of America is more or less supportive of a possible “right to cure” a qualified mortgage loan that would inadvertently slip beyond the QM 43 percent debt-to-income ratio threshold. “We support a DTI cure that would allow creditors to take corrective action where there is an inadvertent error in calculating a consumer’s debt or income or where a creditor has stopped documenting income in the mistaken belief that sufficient validated documentation supporting the 43 percent test has been obtained,” BofA said in a public comment letter to the CFPB. According to the lender, both of these instances could easily be fixed, either by correcting a ...
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