The “alternative methods for documenting income” for self-employed borrowers includes the use of unaudited income statements. But borrowers will now have to provide three months of bank statements instead of the traditional two.
Under the new language, a loan meets the general QM definition if its annual percentage rate exceeds the average prime offer rate (APOR) for a comparable transaction by less than 2.25 percentage points.
Justice Stephen Breyer raised eyebrows by characterizing the net worth sweep as a nationalization of the enterprises. “That’s what they did,” he said. “If you look at their giving the net worth to Treasury, it’s nationalizing the company.”