New Award System Launches: Earlier today we implemented our new award system designed to stimulate even more activity from our members.

I thought tough gun control laws prevented that?

There were other pieces of legislation proposed before (and after), but the key "real" bill that passed was the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Mortgage Licensing Act that provided a template for the state's to implement.

Now that the HVCC has been implemented, there are numerous stories about higher costs for appraisals, poor service, the inability to use one appraisal for more than one lender, the poor quality of appraisals, and the inability to make corrections to inaccurate information on an appraisal report.

TeriJust to let you know what you wanted to do the first time is really a simultaneous close or a "dry" close where you use the funds from the second part of the deal to close the first part.Even though this is legal, it is getting much harder to find a title company to do them.and lenders are putting in conditions to prevent them.What your now going to do is a true double close or "wet" close where each transaction is funded separately.

Ralph, If I tow the line, what's to prevent them from wrecking the house out of spite and/or making my life miserable as I try to show the house during the month of July to prospective buyers?

You could look for investors... but then again, those same investors could go snatch up the property and implement your plan.

So I said, "Let me get this straight, HUD will waive the 90 seasoning requirement on a HUD REO for an FHA buyer, but they will NOT waive it for an FHA buyer on a short sale that would prevent another HUD REO?".

One could argue that we didn't spend enough in that war to prevent the recession...

I know the theory now i need to implement it.