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Fintech Maxwell launches POS feature that offers tailored workflows for lenders

Housing Wire

Lenders can also define workflows and business rules for any mortgage product, including construction loans, manufactured home loans, home equity loans and bridge loans. Unlike off-the-shelf POS solutions, Blueprint Builder allows lenders to customize technology that is designed to help improve operations, Maxwell noted.

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HUD launches Office of Manufactured Housing Programs

Housing Wire

Previously organized under the Office of Housing ’s Office of Risk Management and Regulatory Affairs , the new structure is designed to make clear the role that manufactured housing can play in addressing the nation’s housing needs. The department also included a new description for the office and its responsibilities.

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Converting Residences to Businesses - Part 1 - Retail Space

Eppraisal

Small retailers, for instance, paying rents on spaces that were now seldom visited, considered selling out of the house as an alternative. Expanding a House to Include a Store There are several considerations to address when creating retail space at your residential property. Living at home during construction 5. Permitting 3.

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The Supply Chain Reaction – Interview with Greg Stephens

Appraisal Buzz

My appraisal organization involvement includes Appraisal Institute membership where I hold the SRA and AI-RRS designations. I am past President of the North Texas Chapter, the National Association of Appraisers, where I hold the MNAA designation and am currently on the Board of Directors. Buzz: How are we experiencing one currently?

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The Supply Chain Revisited – Interview with Greg Stephens

Appraisal Buzz

My appraisal organization involvement includes Appraisal Institute membership where I hold the SRA and AI-RRS designations. I am also the past President of the North Texas Chapter of the National Association of Appraisers where I hold the MNAA designation and am currently on the Board of Directors. .

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Opinion: A more balanced approach to manufactured home energy efficiency?

Housing Wire

We also commend the administration for the White House initiative announced a week ago Monday to “Ease the Burden of Housing Costs,” which a Housing Wire article noted is designed to reduce regulatory hurdles. Both the standards and the underlying methodology used to develop them are fundamentally flawed.

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. TreeHouse worked with Tesla on an ecofriendly home battery and opened a 25,000-square-foot retail store in Dallas.