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Entries Tagged as 'Law and Regulations'

Tougher Lead Laws Coming?

March 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Maryland’s Groundbreaking Lead Law Marylanders can be proud that we introduced a ground breaking lead paint law in the 1990′s.  This was politics at it’s best creating a law that was a win – win for both tenants and landlords.  If landlords registered their properties and took steps to prevent lead paint hazards they would [...]

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Tags: Law and Regulations · real estate

Gobbledygook

March 8th, 2010 · No Comments

I recently wrote about the SAFE Mortgage Licensing Act.  Here is some of the actual wording from the proposed regulations regarding the SAFE Act. As noted earlier, the SAFE Act encourages CSBS and AARMR to establish and maintain the NMLSR, and  these organizations have development of the NMLSR under way.   In addition to developing [...]

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Tags: Humor · Law and Regulations

Owner Financing? – Not Unless You Are Licensed!

March 7th, 2010 · 4 Comments

HUD has proposed new mortgage licensing regulations that would affect how investors do owner financing.  Unless you are selling your own personal residence you would have to be a licensed mortgage loan originator in order to offer owner financing.  I felt this is an unreasonable and unnecessary requirement and submitted a comment saying so (See [...]

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Tags: Law and Regulations · real estate