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23 November 2022 | 24 replies
Here's what I do know....Mortgage fraud is a crime in which the intent is to materially misrepresent or omit information on a mortgage loan application in order to obtain a loan or to obtain a larger loan than could have been obtained had the lender or borrower known the truth.In United States federal courts, mortgage fraud is prosecuted as wire fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering, with penalties of up to thirty years' imprisonment.
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1 November 2013 | 56 replies
These agencies have more assets available for prosecution than you do for any defense.Seller financing will need to comply, in origination and servicing, to do so you will need to go much deeper in compliance aspects and set in place entity structures that will likely take several operations and oversight into consideration, acted out by different players.
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17 October 2023 | 39 replies
However, what I AM is an actual landlord and as such, I am keenly aware of what does and does not work as "evidence" in court for both evictions and for criminal prosecutions.
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20 October 2017 | 17 replies
I am helping seller draft a letter to state attorney's office as well as to DBPR urging them to prosecute.
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23 May 2019 | 2 replies
I'm hearing that the FAA is prosecuting people for unlicensed commercial flying.
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25 March 2014 | 56 replies
You will be signing affidavits under penalty of prosecution and perjury that no outside agreements exist and everything is stated on the HUD 1 at closing.
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23 January 2020 | 70 replies
There are news articles which seem to say so. https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/bill-would-help-break-floridas-solar-panel-stranglehold-10971356 While I am admittedly not a lawyer, I can find no record of any landlord in the US ever having been sued or prosecuted for charging a tenant for the electricity produced by solar panels that the landlord owns on his/her own property, when the tenant living in that property has used the electricity.
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5 August 2021 | 24 replies
This is because taxes are so low and the population is so small, the tax base is inadequate for police to have the resources to actually investigate or prosecute crime.
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31 December 2013 | 66 replies
Joe, agreed but you've mentioned that several times, it's still in effect and can be enforced, actually, all past regs can be prosecuted by the CFPB as well, so we will see.
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29 September 2015 | 43 replies
While in theory this is great but. the chances of default are high.. then you as the meat inside the wrap need to make payments to your seller while you prosecute the foreclosures.