March Calyx Network Update

March 4, 2013
Jessica Thompson

Jessica Thompson

The March Interface Update took place Friday, March 1st. As a result, you’ll see a new service within your Point® software.

Essent Guaranty, Inc.  located under Mortgage Insurance in the Interfaces menu is now available in Point version 7.5 and higher. Essent serves the housing finance industry by providing private capital to bear mortgage credit risk for lenders and mortgage investors, enabling them to make mortgage financing available for homeowners. The company’s capital strength comes from $600 million in invested and committed equity funding from a group of premier investors, including Pine Brook Road Partners, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, PartnerRe, and RenaissanceRe Ventures Ltd. Essent is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, with growing operations centers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Irvine, California.

Find Essent Guaranty, Inc. under Mortgage Insurance in the Interfaces menu. Visit http://www.essent.us for more information.

Remember, we add new service providers to our software regularly. This enables you to have the tools you need to succeed right at your fingertips. Be on the lookout for more blogs about new Interfaces in Point!

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December Calyx Network Update

December 4, 2012
Jessica Thompson

Jessica Thompson

The December Interface Update took place yesterday, December 3.  As a result, you’ll see changes to services within your Point® software.

American Coast Title can be found in the Services menu under Title and Escrow Services. American Coast Title, which opened in 1988, is a hands-on company who has no outside investors awaiting huge profits, no stock analysts to keep happy and no consulting firm creating or revising our public image.  They have dedicated title professionals who understand that the best insurance of success is superior service to their clients.

American Coast Title “can and does deliver the fastest service in the industry, but not at the expense of accuracy.  This philosophy encompasses not only title and customer service departments but payoff and escrow as well.” While privately owned, American Coast Title is underwritten by two of the strongest title insurers in the nation, Fidelity National Title and Westcorp Title Insurance they are also the agent for WFG in addition to Fidelity and Westcor. It truly is the best of both worlds.

Let American Coast Title design a personal service plan for you.  Whether it’s guaranteed 24-hour preliminary reports, online property profiles, or customized comparable, they are prepared to meet your needs. To learn more go to www.actfortitle.com or call 800-228-6446.

Remember, every month we add new service providers to our software. This enables you to have the tools you need to succeed right at your fingertips. Be on the lookout for our monthly blog about new Interfaces in Point!

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Appraisal Firewall Keeps Helping Point Users Work Directly With Their Appraisers

November 27, 2012

Jessica Thompson

As far as real estate appraisals go, Appraisal Firewall still firmly believes that you get the best appraisal when you manage your appraisal process internally and work directly with your appraisers.  This belief is what drives Appraisal Firewall to continue to make features like their brand spanking new Conditional Acceptance feature.

Conditional Acceptance allows lenders to negotiate order turn times and prices with appraisers before the appraisal order is accepted. Hashing out the details beforehand can save lenders and appraisers considerable time and headaches by solidifying the most important details up front so everyone is on the same page: prices and delivery dates.

Learn More about Conditional Acceptance.

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November Calyx Network Update

November 2, 2012

The November Interface Update took place yesterday, November 1.  As a result, you’ll see changes to services within your Point software.

Jessica Thompson

Reliable Insurance Managers, Inc. agency specializes in property and casualty insurance offering the most competitive rates for your personal and business needs. They also offer various life and health insurance plans for individual and group benefits.

Reliable Insurance concentrates on providing low rates for the following coverage’s:

  • Personal Auto
  • Homeowners
  • Flood
  • Mobile Home
  • Renters Insurance (Apartments, Condos, Town homes & Leased Homes)
  • Motorcycles
  • Boats and Jet Skis
  • Travel Trailers
  • Recreational Vehicles
  • Business Coverage (General Liability, Business Auto, Property, Bonds, Equipment)
  • Workers Compensation
  • Life and Health (Individual and Group Benefits)

As you can see Reliable Insurance is a one stop agency that can handle all of your insurance needs. They use A+ rated carriers providing 24 hour claims service and exceptional customer service.

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Insure your loved ones and valuables today. Get a free quote on auto, home, life, health, motorcycle, renters or business insurance.

Do you know someone who needs help with their insurance? Tell them to call Reliable Insurance for a fast, free quote. Then they will give you a $10 gift certificate when they start.

Find Reliable Insurance under Additional Services in the Interfaces menu. Visit  www.reliableins.net  for more information.

Remember, every month we add new service providers to our software. This enables you to have the tools you need to succeed right at your fingertips. Be on the lookout for our monthly blog about new Interfaces in Point!

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Kitchen Sink Not Included (See How 18 New Appraisal Firewall Features Can Help Your Appraisal Process)

October 25, 2012

Jessica Thompson

Here are the latest and greatest Appraisal Firewall product enhancement requests from users across the system: available in Appraisal Firewall’s 10/18/2012 release. Many of these enhancements assist Calyx Point users in their appraisal processes.

Check out how the borrower can securely pay for an appraisal with their credit card, see how we’ve combined all billing-related items onto one simple-to-view screen, how we’ve enhanced the FHA appraisal order experience, and 15 other features and enhancements. See the Release Bulletin here  -  click the 10/18/2012 entry.

To learn more, email Jim Norman at SharperLending (the company behind the Appraisal Firewall technology), or leave a comment here on the Calyx Corner Blog.

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October Calyx Network Update

October 2, 2012

The October Interface Update took place yesterday, October 1.  As a result, you’ll see changes to services within your

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Point® software.

For more than 26 years UPF Services has provided highly differentiated real estate solutions that are focused on the complexity and magnitude of managing risk and loss mitigation throughout the real estate and mortgage spectrum. They combine the benefits of extensive real estate, mortgage and customer management expertise, with process driven, end-to-end solutions customized to the customer’s specific requirements.

Their unique fulfillment delivery strategy aggregates and consolidates the industry’s leading sources of real estate and mortgage data neatly into one platform. This approach offers a highly configurable and efficient delivery solution that improves data transparency, strategic and tactical performance, satisfies regulatory scrutiny, and increases operational productivity and management capacity.

Coupled to UPF Services fulfillment delivery strategy is our customer focused methodology.  They take a holistic business approach in the development and design of your real estate solutions. Through customer collaboration they assess current processes and workflows, then use best practices to covert the customers preferred fulfillment process into an optimal product and service delivery solution. This methodology delivers a highly scalable delivery solution with exceptional productivity gains, and lower operational fixed costs.

UPF Services believes that their products and services provide exceptional value and affordability with the lowest risk and highest reward strategy for organizations committed to superior quality, reliability and service.

Find UPF Services under  *Flood Certification in the Services menu. Visit www.upfservices.com  for more information.

Remember, every month we add new service providers to our software. This enables you to have the tools you need to succeed right at your fingertips. Be on the lookout for our monthly blog about new Interfaces in Point!

*Please note that UPF will still be available in the Interfaces menu under Flood for a couple months during this transition period over to the Services menu under Flood.

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Checked out the Calyx Network® lately?

September 27, 2012

BJ Bounds

For those of you who work in Point® every day but haven’t peaked at the tabs at the top labeled “Lenders,” “Services,” or “Interfaces,” you might be losing valuable time from your workday.

The Calyx Network is a network of vendors that provide premier services and documents straight from your Point file.  You can order credit, closing docs, appraisals, flood certs, almost anything you need to close a mortgage, without re-keying the borrower information or having to fax paperwork back and forth.  These vendors are tied into Point so you can order straight from a file and receive the information back into the file from which it was ordered.

There are so many vendors to choose from, your favorite might already be listed.  Don’t wait another minute! Check out the vendors in your Point software today and give yourself the gift of time!

For a complete list of vendors, visit the Calyx Network page.

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What are we Talking About when we Talk About the Appraisal Firewall-Calyx Point Interface?

September 24, 2012

Jessica Thompson

As those of you know who manage your own appraisal process, ordering the appraisal is the easy part. Getting the lender-managed appraisal process in place and making sure the proper efficiency, compliance and oversight is there is an entirely different animal. Without the right kind of technology, this can be difficult.

What if the technology you need was available right from within your very own Calyx Point® in an easy, set-it-and-forget-it process?

Appraisal Firewall offers branch administration and corporate controls (video here) to setup and have a scope into each branch’s appraisal activities and to tightly control workflow. All Calyx Point users have this functionality available to them today through the Appraisal Firewall interface. The interface is so much more than just appraisal ordering.  No other LOS-to-Appraisal technology partnership offers this level of functionality. Where many have gone wide with their systems and overlooked the characteristics of detail, we have chosen to go deep with the features and functions available to you in your LOS.

So, then – what are we talking about when we talk about Appraisal Firewall? Control. Control over your appraisal process; control over the setup and administration of your appraisal process; and, control to make sure your appraisal process is efficient and cost-effective while complying with all appraisal independence regulations.

To learn more, you can click here, email Jim Norman at SharperLending (the company behind the Appraisal Firewall technology), or leave a comment here on the Calyx Corner Blog.

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Calyx Network September Update

September 4, 2012

BJ Bounds

This month’s update to the Calyx Network does not include any vendor additions. However, if you are on Point 7.6, you will automatically receive updates to the following forms:

  1. The FHA Home Inspection (HUD-92564-CN) form. This update is just the expiration date as HUD just changed it on the form.
  2. The FHA Consumer Choice Notice Disclosure. This update added some missing text that should be in the “FHA Mortgage Insurance Premium Information” section at the bottom of the form.

Remember, you can only receive these instant updates if you are on the current version of Point because that is the version that contains the functionality for forms updates.   If you need to update your software, call your account representative at 800-362-2599.

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Cover Yourself! Appraisal Firewall’s New Interactive Map Provides Better Control Over Appraisal Coverage Areas for Point Users

August 16, 2012

Jessica Thompson

At the core, Appraisal Firewall aims to deliver superior control over lenders’ appraisal processes by enabling lenders to work with their own appraiser panels (and any AMCs they want to work with).  In the coming weeks, Appraisal Firewall will be providing Point® users with additional tools to better manage their appraisal process.

Appraisal Firewall is in the final stages of testing a new interactive appraiser coverage area map to boost your ability to control your panels. Check out the video here.

They have taken the data from your appraiser panel and enhanced it so that you are presented with a sharp, interactive map-based display.  Beginning at the national level, you can see which states you have appraisers in, and which states you don’t.  You can then drill down into that state and view a county-by-county listing for individual appraisers and their qualifications.  And for those of you in larger counties such as Los Angeles or San Diego, you can even drill down into your coverage by zip code.

As far as appraiser detail goes, you can view appraiser products and pricing, their average turn time, the number of disputed appraisals they have delivered, and lots more!  You can also review appraisers that are not currently in your panel to see if this is an appraiser you might like to add to your panel – possibly extending your coverage area with a validated and trusted appraiser you can build a relationship with.

Pretty cool huh?

PS.  Point users can get all of this from the Point-Appraisal Firewall interface.  To learn more, email Jim Norman at SharperLending (the company behind the Appraisal Firewall technology), or leave a comment here on the Calyx Corner Blog.

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