query: new GFE - FHA MIP refund

This is entirely an educated guess on my part.  I would say you would NOT show the refund on the GFE.  I think you would show it on your Cash to Close Summary or Details of Purchase on the 1003.  I do hope everyone is working with a Cash to Close Summary so that consumers have a clear understanding of the anticipated bottom line.  This is where you would show the seller assist, right?

On the HUD

query: new GFE - FHA MIP refund

This is entirely an educated guess on my part.  I would say you would NOT show the refund on the GFE.  I think you would show it on your Cash to Close Summary or Details of Purchase on the 1003.  I do hope everyone is working with a Cash to Close Summary so that consumers have a clear understanding of the anticipated bottom line.  This is where you would show the seller assist, right?

On the HUD

IRS and the HUD-1 and the tax credit...what do you think?

Here's a little e-mail chat with a reader trying to help her client.  I am very interested to hear your thoughts on this issue of the IRS requiring that all signatures must be on one piece of paper.

Diane,
I have a client that is filing the IRS Form 5405 to claim the First Time Homebuyers Credit.   She has a HUD1 that is lacking the seller’s signature.  She has contacted the settlement agent’s

IRS and the HUD-1 and the tax credit...what do you think?

Here's a little e-mail chat with a reader trying to help her client.  I am very interested to hear your thoughts on this issue of the IRS requiring that all signatures must be on one piece of paper.

Diane,
I have a client that is filing the IRS Form 5405 to claim the First Time Homebuyers Credit.   She has a HUD1 that is lacking the seller’s signature.  She has contacted the settlement agent’s

stand your ground, nicely and with patience......

We have had two closings, make that THREE closings in which the mortgage lender asked us to use different figures on line 801 than we found on the GFE. In each case, after listening to the lenders explain all sorts of methods they wanted to cure whatever problem they perceived, we just quietly said, we can't change that line, it's got to match the GFE, are you sure you haven't considered

stand your ground, nicely and with patience......

We have had two closings, make that THREE closings in which the mortgage lender asked us to use different figures on line 801 than we found on the GFE. In each case, after listening to the lenders explain all sorts of methods they wanted to cure whatever problem they perceived, we just quietly said, we can't change that line, it's got to match the GFE, are you sure you haven't considered

it's time to think about escheat rules...here's an e-mail from the PA Treasury Dept.

As a former business professional, I know the importance of understanding the various laws and statutes that affect operations. I thank all businesses who comply with Pennsylvania’s Disposition of Abandoned and Unclaimed Property Act and annually file an unclaimed property report with Treasury. To those businesses who do not, I remind you to come into compliance with this state law to avoid