Equal Housing Lender
What's HomePrep?
HomePrep is an online platform made possible by Indisoft, a software company that connects MLO's with clients that have obstacles preventing them from getting a mortgage to HUD housing and certified credit counselors who work with clients to get them "mortgage ready".
National Foundation for Debt Management, a national non-profit HUD housing and credit counseling agency, is the initial HUD counseling agency that provides the HUD counselors participating with HomePrep.
How HomePrep Works
Loan originators and their clients can now connect to HUD counselors that will work with your clients to get them mortgage ready!
Whether your client needs help with credit, down payment assistance, a lowered student loan repayment plan, budgeting help, homebuyer Education and much more, HUD counselors follow-up your client until they have met their mortgage-ready goal. Then, they let you, the loan originator know your client is ready!
Russell Graves explains HomePrep services
Russell Graves, HUD Counseling Agency (HCA) NFDM.org Exec. Dir., HUD certified housing counselor, and past loan originator, explains specific services of HomePrep, the technlogy platform that connects mortgage loan originators with clients seeking mortgage-readiness to HUD housing and credit counselors who can get them ready.
7 Client Services Offered by HUD Counselors through HomePrep
MLO's and HUD Counselors worked hand in hand to discover the top issues that prevent clients from getting a mortgage. Then they found the services that could fix them. Those issues and vetted services became the model for the HomePrep technology platform and are listed below.
Student Loan Repayment
Federal student loan repayment plans through Student Debt Solutions (SDS). No cost to check repayment plans available.
DPA Availability
Down payment assistance available in all 50 states utilizing HUD Counselors who use Down Payment Connect.
Credit: short and long term
Both short term (1-6 mos) and long term (7mos to 5 yrs) credit help using CreditXpert tools and more.
Homebuyer Education
Homebuyer education needed for down payment assistance and specific grants.
Budgeting for a Home
A family budget allows you to see how much money you have, how much money you have left over, and how much you can put towards a mortgage.
Freddie Mac AUS Run
For HUD counselors to use, works with a soft credit pull, and for conventional Affordable mortgages.
6 Mo's Post-Mortgage Counseling
For clients in HomePrep, For the first six months after closing, a HUD counselor will regularly check in to ensure you’re comfortably managing your mortgage payments and provide any necessary support.
Costs for HomePrep, Who Pays, and an MOU Credit to the Client
- HUD housing counseling services are proven to be beneficial to prospective purchasers who pay the initial cost of $99 to work with HUD counselors through HomePrep. If the client completes their HomePrep process, the $99 fee they paid upfront is refunded to them.
- The MLO pays for a HomePrep yearly license of $100.
- The MLO can also provide a credit to the client ($0 to $300) through the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) completed and signed by both the MLO and the client. This credit is only applied by the MLO to the client's closing costs if the client returns to the referring MLO for their mortgage.
- When the client is mortgage ready, the HUD counselor notifies the referring MLO.
Loan Originator Cost to use HomePrep
Loan Originator sign-up and set-up
- Yearly fee of $100.
Loan Originator Credit to Client for Using HomePrep
- The MLO and the client can sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that provides a credit of $0 to $300 from the MLO to the client's mortgage closing costs if the client returns to the referring MLO for their mortgage. This is what you, the MLO agree to credit the client if they come back to you for their mortgage.
Client Cost to Use HomePrep
Standard NFDM HUD Counseling Service Costs:
- $99 fee for HomePrep Services (paid by client)
- $99 credit back to client at the completion of HomePrep!
SDS Student Loan Repayment Plan cost:
- Client only pays if they proceed with a repayment plan.
- Standard: $60 for prefill, document preparation tools and ability to chat with expert in student loans.
- Premium: $160 cost and includes help from Student Loan Counselor.
This is a
discounted cost from SDS specifically for clients that sign up through
HomePrep or
Clients2Homeowners.com.
HomePrep Testimonial
My wife and I met with Matthew with National Foundation for Debt Management (NFDM.org) on Thursdays once a week like clockwork. We would learn in detail how to fix our credit. He would set attainable goals that you can reach and feel better about yourself that you are accomplishing something even if it's small. We learned everything has a positive outcome with Matthew. He paid so much attention to detail and you felt you were really listened to and valued and never judged… your question was answered with respect. Matthew helped us achieve our life goal at 50 years old of owning a home for the first time in our lives.
Please tell Mathew we miss him and without him, none of this would ever have been possible.
- Chris and Valorie, clients of HomePrep
Interested in HomePrep? Contact Us to find out more!
HomePrep is the MLO resource to get clients with issues that need to be fixed connected to HUD counselors who can get them mortgage-ready.
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