Tag Archive for: EPO

What Are Early Pay Off Penalties?

Early Pay Off Penalties (also referred to as EPOs) are often confused with Prepayment Penalties. The EPO meaning in mortgage language relates to fees charged to a lender when a borrower pays off their loan within a certain period after the loan is sold on the secondary market.Read More

Early Payoff Penalties – Six Months Is All We Ask :)

A borrower with substantial funds recently requested an $8,000 lender credit from us to cover his closing costs. In order to give him the large credit, we had to increase […]Read More

Early Pay Off Penalties – Six Months Is All We Ask :)

Shockingly, rates have fallen about 1/4% over the last month. We say shockingly because we were told that this time they were going up for sure (after about twenty false […]Read More

Markets Closed; Veteran’s Day; Brutal Early Pay Off Penalties

We are repeating a blog from May b/c we continue to incur so many Early Pay Off penalties, and b/c a Realtor asked about them yesterday. … a borrower informed us […]Read More

Early Pay Off Penalties For Most Mortgages – Fee Paid By Lenders

Early Pay Off Penalties (EPO) Yesterday a borrower informed us that she intended to pay off her mortgage soon after we close because she was expecting a windfall from the […]Read More

“Early Pay Off Penalties” That Originating Lenders Pay

We discussed the general lack of prepayment penalties (they no longer exist) on Monday. But I also mentioned “Early Pay Off” or “EPO” fees. What Are “Early Pay Off” Penalties? […]Read More