TRID, of course.

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Presented by Prairie Title         
Commentary by Frank Pellegrini, Prairie Title CEO        

August 24, 2015 – TRID. What else? As we move toward implementation of the new TILA-RESPA integrated disclosure rule in six short weeks it’s a challenge to focus on anything else. On Oct. 3 our world will change dramatically. Rarely does such a drastic, externally-imposed change in the way business is transacted occur in an industry, but occur it will.

TRID is a direct descendant of the Dodd-Frank act, passed into law in 2010 in the wake of the financial calamity that roiled the world beginning in late 2008. At more than 2,300 pages, Dodd-Frank is a behemoth. Among its offspring is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which is charged with creating and then enforcing hundreds of rules like TRID that will govern how financial services businesses will interact with consumers.

CFPB’s advice to consumers before they enter the home buying process is: Know before you owe. On the industry side, we had all better “know” long before we get the closing table. Dodd-Frank enforcement penalties are steep. Even one violation can cost you $5,000 and it goes up sharply from there.

It is unclear at this point exactly how stringent CFPB enforcement policies will be in the early months of the TRID era. Directory Cordray stated in a June 3 letter to members of Congress that the CFPB’s “oversight of the implementation of the Rule will be sensitive to the progress made by those entities that have squarely focused on making good-faith efforts to come into compliance with the rule on time.” Clearly, the key term is “good-faith efforts.” We will all make mistakes, but it seems if we prepare properly and make every effort to comply with the new rule the Bureau will be tolerant of those mistakes in the early going.
If you’re looking for more information as you continue to prepare, there are resources aplenty, including:

· CFPB’s Know Before You Owe page
· TRID questions answered during ALTA town hall
· Mortgage Bankers Association guidance
· Realtor.org’s TRID page

Let’s keep the discussion going. Call or email me, or write a comment.

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