All Posts Tagged With: "Martinez"
Real Estate Settlements: Public Cheated Out Of $10 Billion — Per Year!
It was in 2002 when HUD Secretary Mel Martinez told the world that consumers could save as much as $10 billion a year by making the settlement process more competitive. Martinez — now a Republican senator from Florida — offered a simple proposal: Instead of buyers and sellers purchasing settlement services one transaction at a [...]
19Sep2008 | Peter G. Miller | 1 comment | Continued
How To Cut Closing Costs
It may well have been the most unusual stewardship seen by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in recent years. HUD Secretary Mel Martinez has both resigned and left behind an impressive record.
What’s remarkable about Martinez — now a U.S. senator from Florida — is that during his time in Washington HUD operated [...]
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