Onboarding to the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Electronic Appraisal Delivery (EAD) portal is underway for FHA-approved mortgagees participating in the first onboarding phase. The second onboarding phase begins on Nov. 15, 2015, and mortgagees intending to participate in this phase must be registered before this date.
Mortgagees should register now for their chosen onboarding phase, even if it is later in the schedule or if their chosen phase is tentative. If plans change, mortgagees can reschedule their onboarding to a different available phase using the instructions in FHA Connection’s (FHAC) Electronic Appraisal Delivery sign up screen.
After the second onboarding phase begins Nov. 15, there are five onboarding phases remaining that reflect the start date to the end date:
- Dec. 15, 2015 to Feb. 15, 2016
- Jan. 15, 2016 to March 15, 2016
- Feb. 15, 2016 to April 15, 2016
- March 15, 2016 to May 15, 2016
- April 15, 2016 to June 15, 2016
Mortgagees must register for and participate in an onboarding phase on or before EAD portal’s June 27, 2016 mandatory use date. To do so, mortgagee’s designated FHAC Applications Coordinator should follow these steps:
- The FHAC Application Coordinator logs in to FHAC and selects the Lender Functions option.
- On the Lender Functions screen, the FHAC Application Coordinator choses the second item in the menu, Electronic Appraisal Delivery Sign Up. The onboarding phase information and registration capability are displayed on this screen.
- The FHAC Application Coordinator selects the chosen onboarding phase to complete the registration process.
Mortgagees must be registered to participate in their chosen onboarding phase before the start date of the phase, and must register to participate in an onboarding phase for each of their approved FHA Lender IDs. More details about the onboarding phase are available in FHA’s Onboarding to the EAD Portal fact sheet.