All Posts Tagged With: "regulators"
Regulators Offer “Reputation Risk” Advice To Reverse Mortgage Lenders
A gaggle of federal regulators are advising reverse mortgage lenders to avoid “reputation risk” by focusing “on the need to provide adequate information to consumers about reverse mortgage products; to provide qualified independent counseling to consumers considering these products; and to avoid potential conflicts of interest.” Big deal. After all, reverse mortgage borrowers are already [...]
23Aug2010 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
National Real Estate & Mortgage Associations
Below is a quick and handy list of the most important real estate and mortgage associations in the U.S. American Arbitration Association Appraisal Institute Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO) Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute (CCIM) Community Associations Institute (CAI) Council of Residential Specialists Counselors of Real [...]
30Dec2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Should You Expect Less Hiring A Real Estate Broker?
There’s little doubt that one of the hottest topics in the world of real estate regulation concerns the matter of minimum service requirements for brokers: Do they protect the public or are they simply a way to hold down competition from low-priced firms and new business models? During the past few years many states have [...]
19Sep2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
The Mortgage Mess: Should We Blame Only Borrowers?
With so much mortgage mayhem in the news it follows that we must blame someone for today’s growing real estate reverses, so why not fault he borrower? The blame game was part of an interesting discussion that took place at the annual Five Star Default Servicing Conference, an event that attracted several thousand attendees to [...]
4Sep2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
