To be compliant with Fair housing if you ask any applicants to fill out an application and background check you must ask all.

You certainly need a written agreement that is well written and compliant with the laws for your jurisdiction. 

He is the person we learned how to do our lease options with and we use his forms which were created by his team of lawyers to be Dodd-Frank compliant.

Remember, if the LO isn't fully compliant with law, the tenant gets to sue for every single dollar paid under the LO back, plus treble any other economic damages, plus mandatory attorney's fees.

You want to be sure you are legally compliant here and are doing everything by the book. 

Pay the tax and hope for offset losses or huge gains on the index fund.If you're just tired of being a landlord and owning fixed asset real estate there are passive options that might work for you and are 1031 compliant so they would shelter the tax.

This would normally be taxable but since she qualifies for the sec 121 exemption it comes to her tax free and she reinvests the other $2.5 mil into passive long term 1031 compliant investments and that is her retirement fund.  

I have never had a complaint and everyone has been compliant so far. 

In doing these seller financing loans, do we need to be compliant with the Dodd-Frank Act?  

@Bill F. are Lease-Option contracts DF and/or Safe Act compliant?