If you act for a lender and wish to complete a private mortgage closing, you should take the following steps
Open the Matter
- Create a new private mortgage lending matter
- Generate the Retainer Agreement
- Send the Retainer Agreement to client for e-signing
- Send initial correspondence to the client
Intake
- Complete client ID verification
- Verify Source of Funds with Client
- Share the Closing Form with the client or their mortgage broker
- Complete the Closing Form
- Send email to client and client's mortgage broker asking for contact information of the Borrower's Solicitor
Commitment Letter
- Generate the Commitment Letter
- Send the Commitment Letter to client for e-signing
- Obtain a fully executed Commitment Letter from the Borrower's Solicitor (and a deposit)
- Upload the signed commitment letter to the Upload Bins
Initial Correspondence
- Send the mortgage instructions to the Borrower's Solicitor
- Send an Upload Request to the Borrower's Solicitor to obtain
- Tax Bills
- Payout Statements
- Banking Information
- Send instructions regarding closing funds to the client
Status Certificate Review
If the property is a resale condo
- obtain the status certificate
- review the status certificate
- generate the status certificate review report
- send the status certificate review report to client
Title Searches
- Complete Title Searches
- Complete Writ Searches
Title Insurance
- Order title insurance
- Receive title insurance policy
Statement of Account and Trust Ledger
- Generate the Statement of Account and Trust Ledger
- Send the Statement of Account and Trust Ledger to the Borrower's Solicitor
Closing
- Generate the security documents
- Send the closing documents to the Borrower's Solicitor
- Send Upload Bins to the Borrower's Solicitor to upload the signed closing documents onto
- Generate Form 9D
- Generate the draft charge XML and import into Teraview
- Generate the Acknowledgement & Direction re Charge
- Send the following documents to client for e-signing
- Form 9D
- Acknowledgement & Direction re Charge
- Draft Charge
- Receive closing funds from client
- Receive signed closing documents
- Receive title insurance policy
- Receive fire insurance policy
- Register charge
- Wire closing funds to the Borrower's Solicitor
Report
- Generate Form 9E
- Send Form 9E to client
- Close matter