To the Students from the July 11-12 Mortgage Pre-licensing Class

Hi Everyone,

Here’s the follow up from some of the questions and discussions from class today.

Here’s a recent blog post on those Cash Call radio ad
Interesting that Cash Call is in trouble with the AG’s office in California. Read more here.

I mentioned these movies during the course of both days:

There Will Be Blood

Charlie Wilson’s War

The Kite Runner

An Education

Red Dragon

DAY 2

Here’s a fantastic interview between Jon Stewart and Elizabeth Warren, the head of the new CFPB.

We talked a bit about the CSBS and the AAMR. Here’s the announcement regarding their published guidelines on non-traditional loans.

Here’s HUD’s FAQ booklet on RESPA. If I were a test writer, this would be a fantastic source for possible test questions.

And then we have the story about Fidelity Title paying a 4.5 million dollar RESPA fine to HUD yesterday.

Here’s the story about the ECOA violations at Cornerstone Home Lending….this story mentions the mortgage insurance cmpany involved.  Here’s the HUD Memo on the Fair Housing violation.