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Manual Underwriting for Higher-Risk FHA Loans
March 22, 2019
George Brooks
To minimize credit risk in FHA’s forward mortgage portfolio, lenders have been ordered to manually underwrite loan applicants with low credit scores and high debt-to-income ratios. [Includes one data chart.]
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