the wasserblawg

Big news today from Washington, for sellers who would consider offering financing to potential buyers and for lucky souls who's parents or other benevolent freinds or family might consider financing their real estate purchases - HUD announced rules that may actually let you execute on your plans. Shockingly, the  Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008, or  SAFE Act seems to have outlawed these sorts of financing tools.  The SAFE Act established  minimum standards for state  licensing of residential mortgage loan originators in order to increase uniformity, improve  accountability of loan originators, combat fraud, and enhance consumer protections.  but in enacting restrictions on their qualifications and authority, the law included everyone  in the universe who made, or wanted to make, mortgage loans.  The SAFE Act defines “loan originator” to mean  “an individual who takes a residential mortgage loan application; and offers or negotiates the  terms