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MHA HAMP Reporting Update Q1 2015 Base NPV Documentation Supplement Available

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On March 3, Making Home Affordable (MHA) released a HAMP Reporting Update, subtitled Q1 2015 Base NPV Documentation Supplement Available.

HAMP REPORTING UPDATE

Q1 2015 Base NPV Documentation Supplement Available

The Q1 2015 Base NPV Model Documentation Supplement is now available for the Home Affordable Modification Program® (HAMP) for use with Base NPV Model Version 6.0 beginning April 1, 2015. The supplement provides the following:

  • REO Sale Value Parameters
  • Historical and Projected Home Price Index
  • Foreclosure and REO Disposition Timelines and Costs
  • Home Price Decline Protection Incentive Matrix
  • Default Model Parameters
  • Pre-payment Model Parameters
  • HAMP Tier 2 Assumptions and Parameters

Servicers can access the Q1 2015 Base NPV Model Documentation Supplement in the Base NPV Model Tools & Documents section of HMPadmin.com (login required).

Important Actions for Certain Servicers: HAMP-registered servicers using an NPV model that has been implemented or customized for their own systems must implement the new Q1 2015 data tables for use beginning April 1, 2015.

To fulfill model versioning requirements, servicers should continue to use the Base NPV Model Version 5 and the Q4 2014 data tables for January 1 through March 31, 2015, and other appropriate supplement data tables for earlier quarters.

Questions?
Email the HAMP Solution Center or call 1-866-939-4469.

Please click here to view the online update.

About Safeguard 
Safeguard Properties is the mortgage field services industry leader, preserving vacant and foreclosed properties across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Founded in 1990 by Robert Klein and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Safeguard provides the highest quality service to our clients by leveraging innovative technologies and proactively developing industry best practices and quality control procedures. Consistent with Safeguard’s values and mission, we are an active supporter of hundreds of charitable efforts across the country. Annually, Safeguard gives back to communities in partnership with our employees, vendors and clients. We also are dedicated to working with community leaders and officials to eliminate blight and stabilize neighborhoods. Safeguard is dedicated to preserving today and protecting tomorrow.  Website: www.safeguardproperties.com.

MHA HAMP Reporting Update HAMP NPV Transaction Portal Outage and Updated Reporting Forms Posted

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On March 16, Making Home Affordable (MHA) released a HAMP Reporting Update, subtitled HAMP NPV Transaction Portal Outage and Updated Reporting Forms Posted.

HAMP REPORTING UPDATE

HAMP NPV Transaction Portal Outage

Due to system maintenance, the HAMP NPV Transaction Portal will be unavailable from 8:00 a.m. ET Saturday, March 21 through 8:00 a.m. ET Monday, March 23, 2015.

Servicers will not be able to access the HAMP NPV Transaction Portal during this time period.

Updated Reporting Forms Posted

An updated version of the Servicer Reporting Overview diagram has been posted on HMPadmin.com. Changes have been made to the diagram to reflect updates to the program, and transaction descriptions with time frames have been added.

This document can be found in the Learning Center and Program sections on both the open and secure sides of HMPadmin.com.

The LPI Date Correction Request Form (login required) has been updated and can be found in the Data Reporting tab on the secure side of HMPadmin.com. Servicers should begin utilizing the updated version today.

Questions?
Email the HAMP Solution Center or call 1-866-939-4469.

Please click here to view the online update.

About Safeguard 
Safeguard Properties is the mortgage field services industry leader, preserving vacant and foreclosed properties across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Founded in 1990 by Robert Klein and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Safeguard provides the highest quality service to our clients by leveraging innovative technologies and proactively developing industry best practices and quality control procedures. Consistent with Safeguard’s values and mission, we are an active supporter of hundreds of charitable efforts across the country. Annually, Safeguard gives back to communities in partnership with our employees, vendors and clients. We also are dedicated to working with community leaders and officials to eliminate blight and stabilize neighborhoods. Safeguard is dedicated to preserving today and protecting tomorrow.  Website: www.safeguardproperties.com.

MHA HAMP Reporting Update HAMP NPV Transaction Portal Outage

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On March 23, Making Home Affordable (MHA) released a HAMP Reporting  Update, subtitled HAMP NPV Transaction Portal Outage.

HAMP REPORTING UPDATE

HAMP NPV Transaction Portal Outage

Due to system maintenance, the HAMP NPV Transaction Portal will be unavailable from 9:00 p.m. ET Friday, March 27 through 8:00 a.m. ET Monday, March 30, 2015.

Servicers will not be able to access the HAMP NPV Transaction Portal during this time period.

Questions?
Email the HAMP Solution Center or call 1-866-939-4469.

Please click here to view the online update.

About Safeguard 
Safeguard Properties is the mortgage field services industry leader, preserving vacant and foreclosed properties across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Founded in 1990 by Robert Klein and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Safeguard provides the highest quality service to our clients by leveraging innovative technologies and proactively developing industry best practices and quality control procedures. Consistent with Safeguard’s values and mission, we are an active supporter of hundreds of charitable efforts across the country. Annually, Safeguard gives back to communities in partnership with our employees, vendors and clients. We also are dedicated to working with community leaders and officials to eliminate blight and stabilize neighborhoods. Safeguard is dedicated to preserving today and protecting tomorrow.  Website: www.safeguardproperties.com.

MHA HAMP Reporting Update February 2015 UP Survey Now Available

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On March 16, Making Home Affordable (MHA) released a HAMP Reporting Update, subtitled February 2015 UP Survey Now Available.

HAMP REPORTING UPDATE

February 2015 UP Survey Now Available

The February 2015 UP survey is now available on HMPadmin.com (login required). Servicers that have executed a Servicer Participation Agreement (SPA) and that have cumulative UP activity must complete and upload their UP survey response to the HAMP Reporting Tool (login required) by Monday, March 23, 2015.

SPA servicers that have any cumulative UP activity as of February 28, 2015 must submit an UP survey at this time.

For details on downloading and submitting the UP survey response, log in to HMPadmin.com, navigate to the HAMP Loan Reporting Tools & Documents area, and select the UP Survey tab.

Questions?
For more information, email the HAMP Solution Center or call 1-866-939-4469.

For questions specifically regarding the survey contents, email the HAMP Servicer Survey team.

Please click here to view the online update.

About Safeguard 
Safeguard Properties is the mortgage field services industry leader, preserving vacant and foreclosed properties across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Founded in 1990 by Robert Klein and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Safeguard provides the highest quality service to our clients by leveraging innovative technologies and proactively developing industry best practices and quality control procedures. Consistent with Safeguard’s values and mission, we are an active supporter of hundreds of charitable efforts across the country. Annually, Safeguard gives back to communities in partnership with our employees, vendors and clients. We also are dedicated to working with community leaders and officials to eliminate blight and stabilize neighborhoods. Safeguard is dedicated to preserving today and protecting tomorrow.  Website: www.safeguardproperties.com

Freddie Mac Publishes New Historical Guide Snapshot

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On February 27, Freddie Mac issued an announcement titled New Historical Guide Snapshot Available.

New Historical Guide Snapshot Available

We recently published a new Historical Guide Snapshot, which reflects Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide (Guide) requirements as published on December 18, 2014.

This valuable resource is comprised of two comprehensive PDF files that contain:

  • All Guide Bulletins and Industry Letters published between October and December 2014, and
  • All Guide chapters, Guide forms, Guide exhibits, directories, and the Glossary as they were published on December 18, 2014. This file includes a table of contents and easy-to-use navigational bookmarks. We use highlighting, in both the table of contents and the text, to indicate updates made between the last Historical Guide Snapshot date and December 18, 2014.

Disclaimer: Historical Guide Snapshots must be read in conjunction with all applicable Guide Bulletins. They are not official versions of the Guide. You are responsible for compliance with the official Guide and Guide Bulletins, which contain specific Guide changes and applicable effective dates, as posted on AllRegs®.

For More Information

Please click here to view the announcement online.

About Safeguard 
Safeguard Properties is the mortgage field services industry leader, preserving vacant and foreclosed properties across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Founded in 1990 by Robert Klein and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Safeguard provides the highest quality service to our clients by leveraging innovative technologies and proactively developing industry best practices and quality control procedures. Consistent with Safeguard’s values and mission, we are an active supporter of hundreds of charitable efforts across the country. Annually, Safeguard gives back to communities in partnership with our employees, vendors and clients. We also are dedicated to working with community leaders and officials to eliminate blight and stabilize neighborhoods. Safeguard is dedicated to preserving today and protecting tomorrow.  Website: www.safeguardproperties.com.

Freddie Mac March 2015 U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook

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On March 11, Freddie Mac released its monthly U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook.

Freddie Mac March 2015 U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook

MCLEAN, VA–(Marketwired – Mar 11, 2015) – Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) released today its U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for March, highlighting some of the positive tailwinds at the start of the spring homebuying season. A video preview, along with the complete March 2015 U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook and forecast table, is available here.

Outlook Highlights

  • Expect 2015 to be the best year for home sales and new home construction since 2007 when total home sales were about 5.8 million for the year.
  • Improved job prospects have started to drive those aged 25-34 back to the labor force, with 76.8 percent employed as of last month, up from 75.9 percent last year.
  • Expect rising rents at or above inflation in 2015 to push more would-be homeowners into the market. Rents increased an average of 3.6 percent in 2014 and nearly 11 percent over the last three years.
  • Due to some recent upward pressure on Treasury bond yields, the 2015 forecast for the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was increased slightly to at 4.0 percent for the year.

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Attributed to Len Kiefer, Deputy Chief Economist, Freddie Mac.

“This month kicks off the spring homebuying season. Between now and the end of June, we’ll see about 40 percent of all home sales for the year. So these next few months will essentially tell us whether or not 2015 will be a good or bad year for housing markets. Overall, we’re feeling good about housing and we expect this year to be the best year for home sales and new home construction since 2007 when we saw total home sales about 5.8 million for the year.”

Please click here to view the March 2015 U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook in its entirety.

About Safeguard 
Safeguard Properties is the mortgage field services industry leader, preserving vacant and foreclosed properties across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Founded in 1990 by Robert Klein and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Safeguard provides the highest quality service to our clients by leveraging innovative technologies and proactively developing industry best practices and quality control procedures. Consistent with Safeguard’s values and mission, we are an active supporter of hundreds of charitable efforts across the country. Annually, Safeguard gives back to communities in partnership with our employees, vendors and clients. We also are dedicated to working with community leaders and officials to eliminate blight and stabilize neighborhoods. Safeguard is dedicated to preserving today and protecting tomorrow.  Website: www.safeguardproperties.com.

Freddie Mac: January 2015 Performance Data Now Available in Scorecard

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On March 6, Freddie Mac issued an announcement titled January 2015 Performance Data Now Available in Scorecard.

January 2015 Performance Data Now Available in Scorecard

Your January 2015 performance data is now available in your Freddie Mac Servicer Success Scorecard (Scorecard) via the Servicer Performance Profile. Your Scorecard reflects the updates we announced in Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide (Guide) Bulletin 2014-19 [pdf].

As a reminder, the 2015 Scorecard Preview is no longer available. If you have questions, contact your Account Manager or Customer Support (800-FREDDIE).

Training and Resources

For More Information

  • Review Guide Bulletin 2014-19 [pdf]. 
  • Sign up for the Single-Family Week in Review and receive all the latest Single-Family news in one convenient weekly email.
  • Contact your Freddie Mac representative.

Please click here to view the announcement online.

About Safeguard 
Safeguard Properties is the mortgage field services industry leader, preserving vacant and foreclosed properties across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Founded in 1990 by Robert Klein and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Safeguard provides the highest quality service to our clients by leveraging innovative technologies and proactively developing industry best practices and quality control procedures. Consistent with Safeguard’s values and mission, we are an active supporter of hundreds of charitable efforts across the country. Annually, Safeguard gives back to communities in partnership with our employees, vendors and clients. We also are dedicated to working with community leaders and officials to eliminate blight and stabilize neighborhoods. Safeguard is dedicated to preserving today and protecting tomorrow.  Website: www.safeguardproperties.com.

FHLMC Guide Bulletin 2015-3 Updates Announced

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On March 17, Freddie Mac released an update titled Modification Updates Announced in Guide Bulletin 2015-3.

Modification Updates Announced in Guide Bulletin 2015-3

Today, in Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide (Guide) Bulletin 2015-3, we announced changes that enhance our modification options and expand borrower eligibility using our loss mitigation toolkit. All changes are effective for new evaluations conducted on or after July 1, 2015, but you’re encouraged to implement them immediately.

To continue to provide effective options for you to help borrowers keep their homes, we’re updating the following requirements:

Step-Rate Mortgages

  • Offering borrowers with Step-Rate Mortgages the opportunity for an earlier modification with our Freddie Mac Streamlined Modification (Streamlined Modification).
  • Adding a new eligible hardship to our Freddie Mac Standard Modification (Standard Modification) Imminent Default Hardship test.

Eligibility Exclusions for:

  • Streamlined Modification: Our three-step exclusion test (based on payment history, hardship reason and FICO® score) will no longer apply to Step-Rate Mortgages.
  • Standard and Streamlined Modification:  
  • Increasing the permitted total number of previous loan modifications from one to two.
  • Adjusting our requirements so a mortgage that was both:
  • Previously modified under Guide Section B65.18(a), and
  • Became 60 or more days delinquent within 12 months of the modification effective date, is only ineligible for a Streamlined or Standard Modification if the borrower was unable to bring the mortgage current following the original delinquency.

Borrower Response Packages for Streamlined Modifications

Updating Streamlined Modification requirements for situations when you receive a complete Borrower Response Package after the Streamlined Modification solicitation is sent to the borrower, but prior to you sending the modification agreement. 

Please read Guide Bulletin 2015-3 for more details on these changes and for additional updates.

Reminders

For More Information

Please click here to view the online update.

Please click here to view Guide Bulletin 2015-3 [pdf].

About Safeguard 
Safeguard Properties is the mortgage field services industry leader, preserving vacant and foreclosed properties across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Founded in 1990 by Robert Klein and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Safeguard provides the highest quality service to our clients by leveraging innovative technologies and proactively developing industry best practices and quality control procedures. Consistent with Safeguard’s values and mission, we are an active supporter of hundreds of charitable efforts across the country. Annually, Safeguard gives back to communities in partnership with our employees, vendors and clients. We also are dedicated to working with community leaders and officials to eliminate blight and stabilize neighborhoods. Safeguard is dedicated to preserving today and protecting tomorrow.  Website: www.safeguardproperties.com.

FHFA?s Actions Increase Emphasis on Removing GSEs? Non-Performing Loans

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On March 13, DS News released an article discussing the recent actions of the Federal Housing Finance Agency as an indication that it is looking to clear Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s seriously delinquent loan portfolios and focus on borrower foreclosure prevention.

FHFA’s Actions Increase Emphasis on Removing GSEs’ Non-Performing Loans

Recent actions by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) indicate that the Agency is placing an increased emphasis on the clearing out of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s seriously delinquent loan portfolios and steering more borrowers toward foreclosure prevention and loss mitigation actions, using foreclosure only as an absolute last resort.

In early March, FHFA announced enhanced requirements for the sales of non-performing loans owned or backed by the GSEs. The new requirements state that servers must offer a “waterfall of resolution tactics” that include a short sale, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure, or loan modification before resorting to foreclosure, and requiring bidders for the loans to demonstrate a successful record of loan resolution through foreclosure alternatives.

FHFA Director Mel Watt said that he believed the enhanced requirements combined with the GSEs’ non-performing loans (NPL) sales will “result in more favorable outcomes for borrowers and local communities” and will also reduce the losses to the GSEs and taxpayers. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been under FHFA’s conservatorship since 2008, when they required a $188 billion bailout to stay afloat. The enhanced rules also encourage servicers to sell REO or foreclosed properties to a non-profit or to someone who will occupy the property as a primary residence.

Both GSEs amassed a backlog of seriously delinquent loans amid massive numbers of defaults in the run-up to the financial crisis and have been working to clear them out ever since. The numbers are steadily declining – both Enterprises reported their lowest level of seriously delinquent mortgage loans since the last decade. Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reported a seriously delinquent loan rate of 1.86 percent for February; Fannie Mae’s rate has declined month-over-month for 38 straight months now. Freddie Mac’s rate was the lowest in nine years.

To the end of clearing out the GSEs’ non-performing loan portfolios, Freddie Mac made its first sale of 2015 in early March when it auctioned off 1,975 NPLs with an aggregate unpaid balance of $392 million. Last year, Freddie Mac made its first sale of NPLs when it sold a bundle with an aggregate UPB of $596 million.

While Freddie Mac’s financial report for 2014 indicated that the GSE has helped 1.07 million borrowers avoid foreclosure since 2009, the number has been steadily declining annually since peaking at 275,000 in 2010 at the height of the foreclosure wave. In 2014, Freddie Mac helped 120,000 homeowners avoid foreclosure with either a loan modification, forbearance agreement, repayment plan, or short sale/deed-in-lieu of foreclosure. Granted, foreclosure numbers are not near what they were in 2010, but the government has indicated that there are many borrowers out there who could be taking advantage of loss mitigation programs who are not.

Please click here to view the article online.

About Safeguard 
Safeguard Properties is the mortgage field services industry leader, preserving vacant and foreclosed properties across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Founded in 1990 by Robert Klein and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Safeguard provides the highest quality service to our clients by leveraging innovative technologies and proactively developing industry best practices and quality control procedures. Consistent with Safeguard’s values and mission, we are an active supporter of hundreds of charitable efforts across the country. Annually, Safeguard gives back to communities in partnership with our employees, vendors and clients. We also are dedicated to working with community leaders and officials to eliminate blight and stabilize neighborhoods. Safeguard is dedicated to preserving today and protecting tomorrow.  Website: www.safeguardproperties.com.

FHFA Report Details Progress on the 2014 Strategic Plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Conservatorships

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On March 16, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a news release announcing a Progress Report describing activities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac undertook in 2014 to further FHFA’s conservatorship goals.

News Release

FHFA Report Details Progress on the 2014 Strategic Plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Conservatorships

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) issued a Progress Report today on the initiatives outlined in the 2014 Strategic Plan for the Conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the 2014 Conservatorship Scorecard.  The Progress Report describes activities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac undertook in 2014 to further FHFA’s conservatorship goals: Maintain, Reduce, and Build. 

The report notes important progress made in advancing access to credit, continuing and enhancing loss mitigation and foreclosure prevention efforts, reducing risk to taxpayers by increasing the role of private capital in the mortgage market, and furthering the development of the Common Securitization Platform (CSP) and a Single Security.

“I’m very proud of the work we’ve accomplished over the past year,” said FHFA Director Melvin L. Watt.  “Some very important steps have been taken to meet our strategic goals and, while much more remains to be done, we look forward to continuing collaboration with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and to receiving input from stakeholders as we move forward.”

Interested parties are invited to provide written input on this report via email to: ConservatorshipStrategicPlan@fhfa.gov?.?
 
Attachments:

2014 FHFA Progress Report
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Contacts:
?Media:  Corinne Russell (202) 649-3032 / Stefanie Johnson (202) 649-3030?
Consumers: Consumer Communications or (202) 649-3811?

Please click here to view the news release online.

About Safeguard 
Safeguard Properties is the mortgage field services industry leader, preserving vacant and foreclosed properties across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Founded in 1990 by Robert Klein and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Safeguard provides the highest quality service to our clients by leveraging innovative technologies and proactively developing industry best practices and quality control procedures. Consistent with Safeguard’s values and mission, we are an active supporter of hundreds of charitable efforts across the country. Annually, Safeguard gives back to communities in partnership with our employees, vendors and clients. We also are dedicated to working with community leaders and officials to eliminate blight and stabilize neighborhoods. Safeguard is dedicated to preserving today and protecting tomorrow.  Website: www.safeguardproperties.com.

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CEO

Alan Jaffa

Alan Jaffa is the Chief Executive Officer for Safeguard Properties, steering the company as the mortgage field services industry leader. He also serves on the board of advisors for SCG Partners, a middle-market private equity fund focused on diversifying and expanding Safeguard Properties’ business model into complimentary markets.

Alan joined Safeguard in 1995, learning the business from the ground up. He was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2002, and was named CEO in May 2010. His hands-on experience has given him unique insights as a leader to innovate, improve and strengthen Safeguard’s processes to assure that the company adheres to the highest standards of quality and customer service.

Under Alan’s leadership, Safeguard has grown significantly with strategies that have included new and expanded services, technology investments that deliver higher quality and greater efficiency to clients, and strategic acquisitions. He takes a team approach to process improvement, involving staff at all levels of the organization to address issues, brainstorm solutions, and identify new and better ways to serve clients.

In 2008, Alan was recognized by Crain’s Cleveland Business in its annual “40-Under-40” profile of young leaders. He also was named a NEO Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award finalist in 2013.

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Esq., General Counsel and EVP

Linda Erkkila

Linda Erkkila is the General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Safeguard Properties, with oversight of legal, human resources, training, and compliance. Linda’s broad scope of oversight covers regulatory issues that impact Safeguard’s operations, risk mitigation, strategic planning, human resources and training initiatives, compliance, insurance, litigation and claims management, and counsel related to mergers, acquisition and joint ventures.

Linda assures that Safeguard’s strategic initiatives align with its resources, leverage opportunities across the company, and contemplate compliance mandates. She has practiced law for 25 years and her experience, both as outside and in-house counsel, covers a wide range of corporate matters, including regulatory disclosure, corporate governance compliance, risk assessment, compensation and benefits, litigation management, and mergers and acquisitions.

Linda earned her JD at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. She holds a degree in economics from Miami University and an MBA. Linda was previously named as both a “Woman of Influence” by HousingWire and as a “Leading Lady” by MReport.

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COO

Michael Greenbaum

Michael Greenbaum is the Chief Operating Officer of Safeguard Properties, where he has played a pivotal role since joining the company in July 2010. Initially brought on as Vice President of REO, Mike’s exceptional leadership and strategic vision quickly propelled him to Vice President of Operations in 2013, and ultimately to COO in 2015. Over his 14-year tenure at Safeguard, Mike has been instrumental in driving change and fostering innovation within the Property Preservation sector, consistently delivering excellence and becoming a trusted partner to clients and investors.

A distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Mike earned a degree in Quantitative Economics. Following his graduation, he served in the U.S. Army’s Ordnance Branch, where he specialized in supply chain management. Before his tenure at Safeguard, Mike honed his expertise by managing global supply chains for 13 years, leveraging his military and civilian experience to lead with precision and efficacy.

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CFO

Joe Iafigliola

Joe Iafigliola is the Chief Financial Officer for Safeguard Properties. Joe is responsible for the Control, Quality Assurance, Business Development, Marketing, Accounting, and Information Security departments. At the core of his responsibilities is the drive to ensure that Safeguard’s focus remains rooted in Customer Service = Resolution. Through his executive leadership role, he actively supports SGPNOW.com, an on-demand service geared towards real estate and property management professionals as well as individual home owners in need of inspection and property preservation services. Joe is also an integral force behind Compliance Connections, a branch of Safeguard Properties that allows code enforcement professionals to report violations at properties that can then be addressed by the Safeguard vendor network. Compliance Connections also researches and shares vacant property ordinance information with Safeguard clients.

Joe has an MBA from The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and holds a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University’s Honors Accounting program.

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Business Development

Carrie Tackett

Business Development Safeguard Properties