For purchase loans, Blend identifies any large deposits in a borrower's connected asset statement(s). For each large deposit, Blend then generates a follow-up request that enables the borrower to explain the deposit.
- Large Deposits LOE - Borrower Experience
- Large deposits letter of explanation is triggered
- Statements Blend can parse to determine large deposits
- Blend's MQI calculation
- Large deposits letter of explanation is not triggered
- Large deposits with a co-borrower
- Read the generated Large Deposit LOE
Large Deposits LOE - Borrower Experience
Borrower is asked to explain the large deposit(s).
Borrower is asked about the source of the deposit.
Large deposits letter of explanation is triggered
If a borrower's Generated Asset Statement or manually uploaded Bank of America statements indicate a deposit >=50% of monthly qualifying income (MQI) and MQI >= $800, Blend will provide the borrower a guided experience in sourcing the deposit, and allow the borrower to upload supporting documentation when necessary.
Possible supporting documentation include proof of sale, paystubs, 2 months of bank statements, or other.
Note: Blend will not request an explanation if it is able to detect that the deposit is a direct deposit, SSA income, IRS refund, or pension income. If a transaction has a transaction type, Blend uses that to detect the source of the deposit.
Statements Blend can parse to determine large deposits
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Blend will parse all Asset Statements generated via Asset Connectivity in Blend
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Using Blend Vision, Blend will additionally parse recognizable and complete Bank of America bank statements that a borrower manually uploaded in Blend.
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Blend Vision will improve its coverage of financial institutions over time
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Blend's MQI calculation
Blend’s MQI calculation is a sum across all borrower self-reported income sources. Detailed below is Blend’s calculation of the contribution from each source of income:
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Employment
- Monthly income = (annual base + annual overtime + annual bonus + annual commission) / 12
- Monthly income = hourly rate * # hours per week * 4.34 (average number of weeks per month) + annual overtime / 12 + annual bonus / 12 + annual commission / 12
- If salaried pay
- If hourly pay
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Military
- Monthly income = annual base / 12
- Monthly income = hourly rate * # hours per week * 4.34 (average number of weeks per month)
- If salaried pay
- If hourly pay
- Rental
- Monthly income = monthly rent - mortgage payments on property
- Business/Self-Employment
- Monthly income = net annual income / 12
- Other
- Monthly income = borrower-stated monthly income
Large deposits letter of explanation is not triggered
If the source of a large deposit is identifiable from the asset statement and is an acceptable source of funds, no further explanation or documentation is required from the borrower. Examples of acceptable sources include:
- Payroll deposits from an employer
- Social Security Administration deposits
- IRS or State income tax refunds
- Transfer between verified accounts
Large deposits with a co-borrower
- Total monthly income will equal incomes of both the borrower and co-borrower.
- For sharing co-borrower accounts, both borrowers will be shown split deposits on accounts that are from the borrower, co-borrower, and asset accounts that are shared.
- For non-sharing co-borrowers accounts, the borrowers will be shown their individual large deposits separately.
Read the generated Large Deposit LOE
Note:
- Your lender may choose not to require signatures on LOEs.
- This feature is only for purchase, NOT refinance loans or HELOC (Fannie Mae guidelines don't require refi's to explain large deposits).
- This feature doesn't work for borrowers that manually upload bank statements for institutions other than Bank of America.
- We will not reconcile Large Deposit LOEs. If the same large deposit still appears on the refreshed GAS as one we've already issued a Large Deposit LOE for, we will still request a new Large Deposit LOE.