Regarding Donna - MI companies have been and are likely to continue to be the fly in the ointment, and the regulations do not address or compensate them.

Also, banks don't fall under most DRE regulations.

There used to be a lot more of these types of lenders, but since the downturn and with tighter regulations, these are fewer of them around.

http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2010/pr10125.html

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basically looking for someone who has worked on rentals and can do a quick, but good job. simple paint job with some prep necessary, nothing fancy just need to throw on a fresh coat to meet city regulations. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

And if you are guilty of attempting to influence the BPO, it is not fraud as much as a direct violation of the SAFE Act and other statutes/regulations which specifically describe making attempts to influence, even though I have not seen a definition of influencing.

The ideal change, of course, would have been to fix the impediments to a free market instead of making it more regulated.

Washington is not CA, but they still like to regulate everything they can get there hands on.

If you are going to use realtors, then it will depend on what your local MLS regulations will allow for.

Blaming realtors, escrow companies, title companies, banks and the government for one's own stupidity is what leads to a nanny state where the government creates a billion pages of regulations so that dumb people can be protected from the consequences of their actions.I agree that the government loan guaranty program is an awful idea and helped create the bubble.