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Yes, real estate agents need to protect trademark rights in your brand

Housing Wire

I am a big believer in developing a brand for your real estate business from Day One. While you can develop name recognition over time, I believe that naming your team or brokerage something other than the leader’s name allows more opportunity for scale and differentiation. you will have grounds to demand that they stop.

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Change Lending keeps CDFI certification after agreement with US Treasury 

Housing Wire

Department of Treasury that would keep the firm certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). The CDFI certification is a designation given by the Treasury Department CDFI Fund to specialized organizations that provide financial services to low-income communities and people who lack financing.

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Stavvy’s solution securely digitizes and automates every aspect of the real estate transaction process

Housing Wire

Most digital solutions in the lending industry are designed to solve one problem and built for one audience in mind. Stavvy enables digital transformation by helping organizations navigate complex financial and legal transactions easily and safely, which allows organizations to put customer experience at the forefront.

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The CE Shop Review: Features, pricing and pros & cons

Housing Wire

The CE Shop’s real estate courses are designed by licensed industry leaders, educators and subject matter experts, including real estate brokers, lawyers, CPAs, mortgage loan originators and other professionals with experience in the real estate industry. Some of these documents are PDFs and some are links to external websites.

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HUD ends silence on targeted lending programs

Housing Wire

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Tuesday resolved uncertainty around special purpose credit programs, 45 years after Congress allowed lenders to tailor products to groups that have historically been excluded from homeownership. In a legal memo, HUD stated that SPCPs are allowed under the Fair Housing Act.

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Online notarizations usher in era of trusted transactions

Housing Wire

Over a billion documents are notarized each year — you probably know the drill. You sit down with a notary and the document to be notarized, the notary squints at your ID, looks at you, looks back at your ID, and then fills in some blanks on the document and applies a stamp. The seal is completed, and your document is official.

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Remote online notarization is the proper path forward for digital closings

Housing Wire

Prior to the pandemic, ALTA and MBA saw a need to develop model RON legislation. The model legislation creates legal certainty across the country by providing a uniform and consistent framework that is based on a common set of core principles.

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