Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Roger Alford, a law professor from Notre Dame, was also called to testify on Friday. Under cross examination on Friday, he clarified that the legal question of whether there was a conspiracy between the defendants was not under his purview, stating: “That’s the job of the jury.”

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The Appraiser Coach

JANUARY 23, 2024

The law of delegation is real, and it works. There are those who have discovered the law of delegation, and have found someone who is loyal and will do anything to help their business succeed. Find out what they really want to do, and train them accordingly. Yes and no. Find out what your employee’s strengths are.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As with every state where buyer agency laws exist, the licensee’s native status is as a transaction broker or facilitator unless and until a separate, bilateral agency agreement is executed. Even though the form, the law and the standard has been around for many years, few engage with it simply out of fear.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

The changes include communicating to applicants that they have the right to request a reconsideration of value (ROV); explaining why an ROV is denied or the valuation is unchanged; and training its credit, valuation and customer service staff on the topic.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

Like he did in the Sitzer-Burnett trial, Ketchmark referenced brokerage training materials and speeches given by CEOs like Gary Keller of Keller Williams , in which commissions are discussed. It is against the law. It was against the law in the 1890s [when the Sherman Antitrust Act was created] and it is against the law today.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

As one of the largest networks in the real estate and mortgage industry, Homes for Heroes was built to give back to firefighters, EMS, law enforcement, military, healthcare professionals and teachers and provide an easier route for them to buy or sell a home.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nearly 50 interviews from staff members in the federal government, financial technology companies, mortgage lenders and consumer advocates found that the ability of AI to improve racial equity can be undermined by the data used to train the algorithm, not just by the algorithm itself.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The DOJ alleges that the bank also failed to train and incentivize its staff to market and advertise its mortgage services to compensate for its lack of presence in these areas. In this case, the alleged redlining occurred from 2016 through at least 2021, when the bank failed to open a branch in majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

” NCRC had previously provided training to Movement Mortgage, at the lender’s request, in 2019. The community group’s findings, however, “reinforced the need not only for training but for continuing monitoring,” said Brad Blower, NCRC general counsel. further impacts the number of approvals in majority-minority census tracts.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

He also claimed Wells Fargo didn’t compensate mortgage professionals for non-sales work, clawed back vacation pay from commissions and did not pay overtime wages as required by laws. Wells Fargo, the largest depository mortgage lender in America, has been plagued by scandals in recent years.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On Thursday, the trade group informed members that it was bringing in a third-party human resources reporting system and a third-party independent law firm to conduct a review of the organization. The letter also addresses a separate letter from Denise Drake, an attorney at Polsinelli Law Firm , to Goldberg dated July 14, 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

FinCE N is a law enforcement arm of the U.S. FinCEN also solicits comments on whether and how to assign a reporting requirement to any or all of the following entities: Title insurance companies, title or escrow companies, real estate agents or brokers, real estate attorneys or law firms, settlement or closing agents.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

.” Many of the individual agents in the study had other full-time jobs as “teachers, government workers, restaurant servers, commercial employees, and a large number in associated industries – mortgage lending, real estate appraisal, commercial and residential investment, and the practice of real estate law.”

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Inman

JULY 4, 2023

How fair housing is taught matters, writes broker-owner Teresa Boardman. Unfortunately, most fair housing courses are worse than useless.

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Appraiserblogs

MAY 5, 2023

Related Posts: Exactly How Are Property Data Collectors Professionally… Somebody explain to me exactly how Property Data Collectors are “professionally trained” per Fannie Mae directives. This program allows for… The post AMC Hires a Convicted Felon as Property Data Collector appeared on Appraisers Blogs.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

“While these technologies have enormous potential, they also carry risks of violating fair lending laws and perpetuating the very disparities that they have the potential to address,” he said.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This is the little-known Law of Amara that describes how we perceive the impact of new technology on our lives. Deep Learning can be trained to identify anything in an image. Today, it’s being trained to provide condition and quality scores from house photos. This technology is now being rebranded as Computer Vision.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Topics include: Real estate license law, agency, contracts, real property, ownership, taxes, water law, land development and zoning, deeds and title transfer, escrow and settlement, fair housing, leases & more AZ Contract Writing Course: 6 hrs of required instruction. Deluxe: Required 90 hrs of coursework.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

Federal regulations mandate that nonbank LOs take training prior to being certified. These organizations impose response training responsibilities on banks to have a well-trained staff,” said a source who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about bank regulation. “So Learning materials up to par?

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Appraiserblogs

APRIL 25, 2023

Fannie Mae took a direct shot at appraisers with the announcement of… FNMA Property Data Collectors Program Violates WV Law The Fannie Mae Property Data Collectors program seems to have run afoul of West Virginia law. The fact is, Fannie… The post Certified Appraisers vs.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If true, that would violate federal laws, including the Dodd-Frank Act , which requires minimum standards for all mortgage products. However, on Oct. Richards claimed that these loans, part of Project Alpha, were approved without proper documentation and excluded from internal audit. But “instead, Richards crumbled.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

There are 39 states that have passed RON laws. They are willing to drive change across their operations and work with advisors, like Falcon, to develop a roadmap to integrate digitalization into policies, processes, and training. The landscape of investors accepting eClosed loans and eMortgages has grown exponentially.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Key takeaways AceableAgent offers courses for every stage or your real estate journey, from prelicensing to post-licencing and training to hone your professional skills. 2 End of Course Exam Attempts Online Course With 3 Hours Each of Core Law & Ethics, 8 Hours of Specialty. Includes specialty, core Law & Ethics CE training.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

In addition to complying with state laws, you must make a plan on how to train and certify staff and comply with the rules and expectations set by your underwriting and lending partners. Ensuring that your RON vendor complies with your state’s laws is imperative when preparing to offer RON. How should you prepare for RON?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2023

” Colgate Selden, a former lawyer with the CFPB and current partner at the law firm Blank Rome LLP , agrees: “I think there’s a way you can do it to reduce your risk. The Fair Housing Act and other similar laws in states also enforce fair lending in the housing sector. But nothing is risk-free.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

Davis alleges that these fees went to increasing technology fees and the purchase of “unneeded goods and services” from KWRI-owned and affiliated companies, such as MAPS training and coaching. We will continue to act professionally, follow the law, and aggressively defend these baseless claims.” Davis has ignored those courts.

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Appraiserblogs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

and Bias Training.other states will also modify their appraisal license renewal CE class requirements to include some form of anti-bias training. Folks,… Amrock Mandatory Diversity Training An appraiser shared the following with us. Why I'm Leaving Residential Appraisal - Dear AMC, Goodbye!

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 2, 2022

To that end, the CRN is devising an educational program to expose the appraisal community to proper training on Fair Housing laws as they impact the appraisal profession. Additionally, we are developing training for our CRN members on how to build a Fair Housing Compliance Management Program.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

6 months course access Ridgeline: All features of Base + Livestream option and Forms Training 101. Covers reciprocal application process, relevant laws & regulations Base Non-Credit NH Reciprocity: For anyone licensed in MA seeking NH reciprocity eligibility. Covers licensing laws & the reciprocal licensing process.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Considerations for attorneys in Ohio If you are an active, licensed attorney in the state of Ohio, you may be able to apply some of your law degree credits toward the Ohio prelicensing course requirements. Be honest and truthful Not be convicted of a disqualifying offense. Ready to find a real estate brokerage?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

John Levonick is a senior partner with the law firm Garris Horn LLP , which serves mortgage companies, secondary market investors, quality control firms, third-party review firms and others in the financial services space. “We So, having a prefunding eligibility review better ensures that the loan transaction can be problem free.”

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JUNE 18, 2022

comparable sales, income, and cost), there are many other elements that may apply based on the statutes, case law, and procedural rules in a given state. As a result, appraisers who have this kind of specialized training can often command hourly rates significantly above those who do not. About the Author.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

Hundreds of trained real estate professionals volunteer to teach participants about urban development, land use, the housing market and non-market forces that shape their communities. academically-inclined minority youth are often pushed towards professions that are seen as “safe bets,” like medicine, engineering, accounting and law.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

With civil rights bills like the Fair Housing Act (FHAct) and Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) now the law of the land, most lenders will note that they rely on supposedly objective borrower screening algorithms to make lending decisions. But the results tell a different story.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Title Leader is designed specifically for default services law firms, whether you have a captive title company or not. No more unique, unwritten, workflow-silos, that are hard to train, that have wide cracks, and that vary greatly in effectiveness. #3. Title Leader. Now more work can be done by fewer FTEs! #2. All 50 states and D.C.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In agent training videos, Blefari said he pre-writes a 6% commission into all his listing agreements and that he only negotiates commissions if they go up. “I But such an indirect claim is prohibited by Supreme Court case law.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In a blog post, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ’s regulator and conservator said it found examples of “overt references to race, ethnicity, and other prohibited bases under federal fair lending laws,” which FHFA said indicate the “continued presence of valuation bias.”.

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