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Forclosure & Modification Counseling?
If you were to offer a counseling service to distressed homeowners are there any licenses or approvals you need to obtain? I ask because theres been some news stories about people offering these services taking advantage of people. Also a realtor told me its illegal to profit off of people by stepping them through the loan mod process, I think perhaps thats just for realtors though...I got someone whos done dozens of these home mods if any of you are concerned, I say this because I know theres always someone who will jump on you lol...
If theres no regulation, how would I charge for the service? Just get a payment processor that can run card not present transactions and get their card number?
Thanks.