Ginnie Mae MBS Guide — Full Verbatim Text
The Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) — free, verbatim, and searchable. 46 documents: the Guide’s chapters, the All Participants Memoranda that amend it between reissues, and its appendices, carrying 726 extracted requirements.
A Guide chapter carries the date of its last Guide revision. Ginnie Mae amends the Guide between reissues by All Participants Memoranda, so a chapter’s date is not proof that no APM has since changed it — the APMs are listed below for that reason.
MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) — chapters 34
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 1 — General Features of the Program
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 2 — Eligibility Requirements – Approval as a Ginnie Mae Issuer
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 3 — Eligibility Requirements – Maintaining Ginnie Mae Issuer Status
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 4 — Issuers and Subservicers – Responsibilities
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 5 — Issuers – Risks and Liabilities
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 6 — Fees
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 8 — Application for Commitment Authority and Pool and Loan Package Numbers
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 9 — Eligible Mortgages, Pools and Loan Packages
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 10 — Assembling and Submitting Pool and Loan Package Issuance Documents
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 11 — Issuer Responsibilities Related to Pool and Loan Package Certification
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 12 — The Prospectus, Securities and Securities Marketing
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 13 — Document Custodians — Eligibility and Responsibilities
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 14 — Pool and Loan Package Administration — General
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 15 — Payments to Security Holders
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 16 — Custodial Accounts
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 17 — Pool, Loan Package and Loan Accounting and Reporting
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 18 — Mortgage Delinquency and Default
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 19 — Reporting Remaining Principal Balances
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 20 — Maturity or Termination of Pool
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 21 — Transfer and Pledges
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 22 — Converting Ginnie Mae I Pools to Ginnie Mae II Pools
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 23 — Conditions for Default – Ginnie Mae Remedies
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 24 — Single Family, Level Payment Pools and Loan Packages — Special Requirements
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 25 — Buydown Mortgage Pools — Special Requirements
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 26 — Adjustable Rate Mortgage Pools and Loan Packages
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 27 — Graduated Payment Mortgage Pools and Loan Packages — Special Requirements
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 28 — Growing Equity Mortgage Pools and Loan Packages
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 29 — Serial Note Pools — Special Requirements
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 30 — Manufactured Home Loan Pools and Loan Packages
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 31 — Project Loan Pools — Special Requirements
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 32 — Construction Loan Pools — Special Requirements
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 33 — Ginnie Mae Initiatives — Special Provisions
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 34 — Special Assistance Programs
- Ginnie Mae MBS Guide (5500.3, Rev. 1) Chapter 35 — Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Loan Pools – Special Requirements (HECM / HMBS)
All Participants Memoranda (APMs) 8
- Ginnie Mae All Participants Memorandum APM 26-01 — Eligibility to Transfer Pools Backed by eNotes via Pools Issued for Immediate Tr
- Ginnie Mae All Participants Memorandum APM 26-02 — Clarification of Pooling Eligibility for Mortgages Subject to Beneficial Interes
- Ginnie Mae All Participants Memorandum APM 26-03 — Periodic Maintenance and Miscellaneous Announcements APM Periodically, Ginnie Ma
- Ginnie Mae All Participants Memorandum APM 26-04 — Audit Schedules Report for Issuers’ Audited Financial Statements All Ginnie Mae
- Ginnie Mae All Participants Memorandum APM 26-05 — Elimination of 15-Day Advance Notice Requirement This APM announces the removal
- Ginnie Mae All Participants Memorandum APM 26-06 — Temporary Revision of Delinquency Calculations In 2025, the Federal Housing Admi
- Ginnie Mae All Participants Memorandum APM 26-07 — Multifamily Reimbursement Claim Submissions In 2025, Ginnie Mae launched its Gin
- Ginnie Mae All Participants Memorandum APM 26-08 — Clarification of Re-Performing Loan Seasoning Requirements To support Agency and
Appendices 4
46 sections in total.
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