As an educator in the real estate and mortgage lending sector, I enjoy hearing stories from students about what it was like to sell real estate and originate loans in the 1950s and 1960s, before the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974….discrimination happened to people who are still […]
A “Risk Management” Alert bulletin was distributed to real estate brokers in Washington State this week in anticipation of yet another new state law, SB 6847 that will go into effect on June 12th. Here is the bulletin June 3, 2008 SUBJECT: RISK MANAGEMENT ALERT To Share at This Week’s Office Meetings THIS WARNING APPLIES TO […]
There is a lot of confusion, anger and fear surrounding the new Distressed Property Law. I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon and do a critical analysis of the law here. Instead, jump into the way-back machine and take a trip through these links to 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 when foreclosure rescue scams started to […]