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User Groups are used when assigning access rights within Point If your organization has several users who have similar access needs, you can create user groups to make administration more efficient and manageable 1. Log into your PointCentral Administration site. 2. From the left Navigation Menu, go to User Groups, then Add User Group. 3. […]

Technology in the mortgage and finance sector will create a transparency and borrower satisfaction ranking that can’t be beat. New technological advances are made daily but the mortgage industry has been chastised as one that won’t evolve in a technological nature. This leads us to ask ourselves what great mortgage technology would actually look like […]

We have been very busy behind the scenes here at focusIT to get Pulse ready for 2017. A lot of the changes were made behind the scenes but not all of them, below is a list of the changes coming out in Pulse 4.0 early next year! •Speed: We have improved the loading of the […]

Every expert in the sector is pointing to an outrageously mismatched market come Spring 2017. Spring housing season is usually the busy time of year for real estate, mortgage, and lending; but this projection could have a very negative effect on this time of the year. Buyers aren’t going to find that perfect home on […]

The post-election mortgage market continues to rise exponentially, but in this last week we did see a couple of days of reprieve. After three straight days of descending mortgage rates they began to rise again in what we could call a period of unrest among lenders. There were also weaknesses in the bond market but […]

HomeUnion, based out of Irvine, California, released a list of the top prospective rental markets that they’re calling the “opportunity” list for prospective real estate investors. The single-family-rental acquisition and management company cited higher retirement rates and booming job markets as their reasoning behind the top three choices for hot new rental markets. Cities that […]

1. Log into Pulse 2. Click on Setting 3. Click on Pipeline View     4. Click on Add and a new box will appear 5. In the first box enter the field ID number 6. In the second box enter the field name 7. When done save 8. Now click on “My Account” button […]

1. Log into Point 2. Click on the Folder were your files are located 3. Click on Utilities on the top menu bar  4. Click on Dropdown List from the menu 5. Now click on the field you want to add names too, like Underwriter, Doc Prep or Closer  6. Click on Add in the […]

With the regular reports from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, among other agencies, anyone working in the sector should be following market trends. Most currently experts have noticed a trend in new home sales taking month up and downturns as well as a decline in cash sales altogether. Combining […]

The steps are as follows: 1) Log into Calyx 2) Click on Utilities 3) Click on Loan Field ID 4) Click on Borrower Point will open a blank file with all the field ID numbers display like the sample below. So First name is field ID 100 and Last name is 101.