What started as a project to see if I could, has turned into a pretty cool learning tool for the new Closing Disclosure and Loan Estimate forms. The PDF's of those forms are fine. The Final rule itself is tough reading. The September 2014 guide added some good notes in 100 pages of information. But still how are thousands of people going to learn about these new forms.
SoftPro has announced free classes to show the new Closing Disclosure Form in both of their software packages. SoftPro Select users can see the up coming release at 2 PM on Thursday March 19th. (eastern DST)
With SoftPro Select it would be nice to put some custom fields at the top of the list, or to change the order of Custom Fields. I hear it's a feature that's coming down the pike, I'm just not sure how long the pike is. So today I decided to figure out if I could control the order of Custom Fields in SoftPro Select. Turns out I can, read on and you will be able to also.
Sometimes the UPS delivery driver is akin to Santa Claus. Today he brought a Sonos Playbar and a set of Play:1 speakers. It was a short trip to this moment, the other day I fired up the old dying Kenwood receiver and found my Infinity speakers had finally dry rotted to failure. My early carrier was in the hi-fi world at a number of shops the best being a store in Pittsburgh called Opus One. There were audio freaks there, they were talented, we did things like draw blue and/or black lines around the outside of CD's to make them sound better, it absorbed rather than reflecting refracted laser light reducing error correction. There was directional wire, stuff that's created in a way to supposedly allow electrons flow one way better than the other. It all seemed to matter, it was interesting to test the ear of people who could hear these things while learning how to listen. Anyhow I digress, but it's a part of what brought me to Sonos.
From time to time our Rate tables need updated, which sometimes brings a pretty high stress level. Here is a method which will allow new underwriter rates to be applied to SoftPro ProForm Classic preventing the update from deleting all the current information. SoftPro distributes a .txt file which the lkupimex.exe utility uses to apply lookup table updates. How nice it is to test the new rates before everyone is using them.
Ohio SoftPro ProForm users can start saving money today by automatically printing the Ohio DTE Form 100, Real Property Conveyance Fee Statement of Value and Receipt directly from ProForm Standard and Enterprise. This form hits the checkboxes the same every time, X in a box. There are no micro feeds, or whiteout necessary when the Conveyance form is printed like the HUD. Even better many Ohio Counties are now accepting computer generated forms on plain white paper, some others require it to be printed on carbonless forms which need an available paper tray or more easier an old printer. We recommend testing white paper first even if the starter list we provide says otherwise.
So the other day a client was having difficulty opening a package from a lender. Don't we all have a package horror story. This one is short and has nothing to do with elynx, Swiftview, DigitalDocs, Rdoc, or any of the applications that need installed to print. The email had the typical link, I clicked fully expecting to see a login prompt and low and behold up came the document.
