Encompass LO Connect Updates and Enhancements to Features - 21.4 Critical Patch 4

Encompass has rolled back the changes made in the Encompass 21.4 Major Release that automated the calculation of the present monthly housing expenses for rent, mortgage, and real estate taxes. The rollback is also going to affect Encompass LO Connect These fields display on various input forms for loans using either the 2009 and 2020 versions of the URLA forms.

The calculation updates implemented in the Encompass 21.4 Major Release were intended to bring the Encompass values for these fields into alignment with the values used in Fannie Mae DU (Desktop Underwriter) for loans using the new URLA forms by introducing automated calculations for the present rent, mortgage, and real estate taxes (Encompass field IDs 119, 120, and 123) and adding Lock icons to these fields to enable manual entry as needed. Details about these updates were described in the Automated Calculation of Present Housing Expenses entry in the release notes for the Encompass 21.4 Major Release.

The calculation and lock changes introduced with the Encompass 21.4 Major Release have now been reversed for all three fields for loans using either the 2009 or 2020 URLA input forms. The automated calculations and Lock icons have been removed, and the present monthly housing expenses fields for rent, mortgage, and real estate taxes have reverted to their previous state prior to the Encompass 21.4 major Release.

An intermittent issue was discovered where changes to a status on the Update Tracking Status window for enhanced conditions sometimes would not update consistently. This issue has been fixed, and now changes to the Update Tracking Status window for enhanced conditions are updated consistently.