Default Fee Appeal System Late Sale Fee Bulk Appeal File Format
Effective February 9, 2015
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Bulk File Format for Late Sale Fee Appeals
Description
Freddie Mac created the Default Fee Appeal System to enable Servicers to submit appeals for late sale fees. The system will permit submission of these appeals via a bulk upload. For each loan submitted in the file, the Servicer can report up to three delay reasons. The Servicer can submit appeals for 1 to 1,000 loans in each file. Use of the system to submit appeal data will eliminate the current email transmission method for servicer appeals of late sale fees and reduce overall response times for appeal decisioning. Data Eligibility Criteria
All Freddie Mac loans with a pending late sale fee that has not yet been billed as per Guide section 66.33(b)
File Format The data file must be in Excel format (.xls or .xlsx)
Because the first two lines are header, the loan data must start on the third line in the file. The detailed format of the data elements is listed in the table below.
Required/ Data No Description Data Type/Size Sample Required if Element applicable 1 FMAC Freddie Mac’s Mortgage Text(9) 120393421 Required Loan loan number Number 2 Servicer The Servicer’s mortgage Text(14) 00012345678912 Optional Loan # loan number 3 Servicer The Servicer Family Text(6) 123456 Required Family number associated with the Number loan 4 Foreclosure The date that the foreclosure Date (MM/DD/YYYY) 11/13/2014 Required Sale Date sale took place 5 Foreclosure The date the foreclosure sale Date (MM/DD/YYYY) 12/02/14 Required Sale was reported Reported Date 6 Appeal The reason the sale was Selected from a list of available Third Party Default Required Reason 1 reported late valid values (see Data Domain section of this document) 7 Appealed Number of days being Text 10 Required Days appealed for appeal reason 1
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Required/ Data No Description Data Type/Size Sample Required if Element applicable 8 Delay Servicer comments Text (1000 character limit) The foreclosure Required Comments regarding appeal reason 1 sale was reported (data element 6) late because…
9 Appeal The reason the sale was Selected from a list of available Application Error Optional Reason 2 reported late valid values (see Data Domain section of this document) 10 Appealed Number of days being Text 10 Required if Days appealed for appeal reason 2 applicable
11 Delay Servicer comments Text (1000 character limit) The foreclosure Required if Comments regarding appeal reason 2 sale was reported applicable (data element 9) late because… 12 Appeal The reason the sale was Selected from a list of available Deed-in-Lieu Optional Reason 3 reported late valid values (see Data Domain section of this document) 13 Appealed Number of days being Text 10 Required if Days appealed in appeal reason 3 applicable
14 Delay Servicer comments Text (1000 character limit) The foreclosure Required if Comments regarding appeal reson 3 sale was reported applicable (data element 13) late because… 15 Additional Servicer may insert any Text (1000 character limit) The foreclosure Optional Servicer additional comments for the sale was reported Comments appeal here. late because…
Data Domain The input file/data must contain exactly the same values as defined in the following data domain in order to be accepted.
Delay Type (Required for Data Element #6 and Required as applicable for Data Elements #9, and #12) – User must select one of the values from the list below
Application Error Deed in Lieu Incorrect Sale Results Reported Other Post Sale BK REO Rollback Delay REO Rollback in Error Repurchase/Make Whole Sale Rescinded/Vacated Third Party Default Third Party Total Debt Transfer of Servicing Upset Bid
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Data File Naming Convention The Servicer should use a unique file name for each file they transmit to Freddie Mac. The file name should not contain any of these special characters: \, /, *, ?, <, >, | Appendix
Sample File* A sample of a data file is copied below for reference.
MAF - Late Sale mock-up12-4.xlsx
*Mocked up data
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