A practical look at new HMDA reporting requirements and what they mean for private lenders If you are a lender engaged in consumer mortgages, then you are certainly familiar with the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, or HMDA. On the other hand, if you are a private lender engaged in business-purpose loans, then hopefully you have [...]
Beware of consumer laws that apply to business purpose loans. Private lenders are often surprised to hear that some consumer laws apply to business purpose loans. Worse yet, some private lenders have been told by their counsel that federal consumer laws do not apply, even though their attorneys claim to be experts in private lending. [...]
How to determine what qualifies as a business purpose mortgage loan Florida House Bill 935 goes into effect July 1, 2019. It adds stiff penalties for misrepresenting a consumer mortgage loan as a business purpose mortgage loan. The former requires a mortgage lender license to transact. Violations are punishable at minimum as third-degree felonies. We’ve [...]
Florida legislators have introduced the same mortgage licensing language from Senate Bill 1632 into an affordable housing bill, SB 1730. Senator Taddeo, SB 1632’s bill sponsor, requested a temporary postponement of SB 1632 due the presence of the same language in SB 1730. Senator Taddeo made the postponement request during the Senate Committee on Banking [...]
The Florida Senate Banking and Insurance Committee is now scheduled to review SB 1632. You can attend the 4 p.m. EST Committee Meeting on 4/1/2019 to show your opposition in person. More details on how to do this below. Review Date: Monday, April 1 Time: 4-6 p.m. Location: Pat Thomas Committee Room, 412 Knott Building [...]
Current bill aims to remove the long-standing business purpose exception from mortgage lender licensing In 2008, the United States Congress passed the Safe and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act (SAFE Act), which required all state regulators to regulate mortgage loan originators who originated consumer loans secured by 1-4-unit residential properties (“Dwellings”). The states were [...]
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