The Need for Mortgage Managers to adopt software

Times change and so does the mortgage industry. For the past few years, mortgage managers managing private investment into mortgages are finding that their business is growing in popularity due to the growth and strength of alternative mortgage financing. This is a good problem.

With the standardized system of banks and trust companies to stay away from construction loans or bridge financing, institutions such as MICs (or Mortgage Investment Corporations) as well as private lenders has been growing exponentially in need to supply financing as well as the amount of available monies for loans.( Available funds are generally earned through private equity investment into mortgages or a group of mortgages and are proving to be popular due to consistent returns and somewhat low risk nature of mortgage investments.) This growth has happened quickly and dramatically and subsequently managers of mortgage investments can find themselves struggling to maintain and stabilize their growth.

Specifically MIC Managers are increasingly finding their staff allocating days to manually input data of new investors, subsequent dividend payments and mortgage data. For instance, some MIC Managers require three staff members 48 hours of data input and calculations each month just to execute interest or dividend calculations and allocations.

With the problem of MICS and Mortgage Investment Managers to successfully maintain and service their loan and investors; consideration for industry specific software is becoming more sensible and vital. Managers are increasingly seeking software to decrease errors of data management and increase efficiency to allow for more time to focus on gaining investments and allocating mortgages.

Canadian software companies such as Dolphin Enterprises www.dolphinent.com are discovering an enormous increase in the mortgage and financial industry interest for their Mortgage Investment Management software. Clients of Dolphin are finding that the adoption of software for applications such as dividend calculations saves their administration staff tens if not hundreds of hours per month for administrative data maintenance. Similarly, the adoption of software further integrates data into a system allowing for management to review and analyze corporate progress to allow for effective decision making thus increasing corporate performance.

With the adoption of a software system specific to maintaining data associated with Mortgage Investment, loan servicing for companies is becoming less cumbersome and more accurate and efficient. Advantages generally received from using software are being realized by Mortgage Companies especially as a result of using industry specific Mortgage Investment Software from companies such as Dolphin Enterprises Ltd.
ADVANTAGES RECEIVED FROM CONVERTING TO SOFTWARE:

• Having all your data integrated into one system is more efficient overall.
• Allows for instant access to information to review corporate status for accurate analysis and proactive planning.
• The cross-referencing of data throughout the corporate records ensures consistency and accuracy with data input and editing.
• Integration provides for the ability for analysis of corporate progress by generating customized reporting.
• Increase revenue through identification of inventory and perhaps see opportunities you didn’t know existed.
• Able to grow quickly and efficiently

Efficiency:
• Many spent hours are saved executing transactions such as dividend runs.

Client Relations:
• Able to generate professional statements and deliver a modern and updated image.
• Statements can be reviewed directly on your web site:
(Instead of all the time and cost required to print, stuff and stamp statements, the system can electronically deliver statements – or better yet be able to put statements password protected online.)
• Client requests can immediately be resolved by instantly searching and reviewing their status and historical records.
• Instantly review mortgage status and be able to quickly respond to questions.

Data input and maintenance:
• Having a format of data entry fields ensures data consistency.
• With mandatory fields ensures complete applications and in some cases data entry suggestions.

Enterprises model on your server:
• Your data is kept with you.
• Able to customize your system to add features unique to you
• Its unique design – one database, one toolbox, one business logic, one source code – means customizations are easy to make and maintenance costs are low.

For more information pertaining to software advantages or specifically Mortgage Investment Management solutions, please contact Dolphin Enterprises at 604-609-6170 or info@dolphinent.com

Shannon Dolphin, Marketing Manager has gained extensive experience in the financial industry in the area of marketing through her company Dolphin Business Development. Her accomplishments have included marketing publicly traded companies through the media and business community, raising funds for companies and well as marketing mortgage products. Shannon's education includes Marketing from BCIT, the Canadian Securities Course, Law exam, Creative Writing and an Internet Marketing course from UBC. Shannon graduated from University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science