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Attorney Generals’ Settlement Mortgage Servicing Standards and Reporting to the Monitor. Financial Benefits of the Settlement. Homeowner Relief Programs including principal reduction Payments to Foreclosed Borrowers Refinance opportunities
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Financial Benefits of the Settlement • Homeowner Relief Programs including principal reduction • Payments to Foreclosed Borrowers • Refinance opportunities • Maryland Housing Initiatives including Housing Counseling
Additional Benefit of the Settlement • Mortgage Servicing Standards now in full force for participating servicers • Bank of America (and Countrywide) • Wells Fargo (and Wachovia) • JP Morgan Chase (and WaMu) • Citi • Ally/GMAC
What Are These Standards? • First-ever nationwide reforms to mortgage servicing standards requiring • better communication with borrowers, • a single point of contact, • adequate staffing levels and training, and • appropriate standards for executing documents in foreclosure cases.
Who is Monitoring this? • The Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight, a.k.a. the monitor, reports to the courts and the public • The monitor collects information from advocates and consumers through their website https://www.mortgageoversight.com/
Reports from Maryland to date • Advocates – 18 • Consumers - 180
What are you seeing? Servicing Standards Exercise See section II Enhanced Loss Mitgation… Group 1 - Sections A-D Group 2 - Sections E-G Group 3 - Section H Group 4 - Sections I-L Group 5 - Sections M-O Group 6 - Sections P- R
How to Report • https://www.mortgageoversight.com/
Make an “Action Plan” • Who • When • What