the wasserblawg

A big hat-tip to Wells Fargo Mortgage Consultant Martha VanBendegom for sharing information with me, so that I can share it with you. Everyone knows that a Buyer and Seller set out the terms of their real estate deal by writing and signing a contract. All agreed terms get spelled out, including the sales price and the closing date. The parties set the closing date in the contract. It gets written in stone, so to speak, no? Well, more written in sand than stone. Sand on a shoreline smacked over and over again by pounding waves of mortgage rules and procedures. Waves that erode the shoreline of that contract, and that will all but wipe those closing dates clean off the beach. Regulations spawned by the Federal Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 go into effect at the end of July. The new regulations, coupled with Fannie Mae & Freddie Macs recent implementation of the Home Valuation Code of Conduct are going to take that "false illusion" of a fixed, certain, closing d...