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SELLER FINANCING--FEDERAL REGULATION TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION: TILA TREATMENT OF SELLER FINANCER AS A CREDITOR. SAFE ACT (amended through Dodd Frank) REQUIREMENTS FOR A SELLER FINANCER TO REGISTER AS AN MLO. QM CONSIDERTIONS. SERVICING CONSIDERATIONS AND SMALL SERVICER EXEMPTIONS—SECONDARY MARKET. LEGISLATION REQUIRED AS CFPB WILL NOT USE EXEMPTION AUTHORITY.
SELLER FINANCING--FEDERAL REGULATION CURATIVE LEGISLATION UNDER CONSIDERATION CSSF APPROACH—TARGETED TO NONCONTROVERSIAL STRUCTURES: FIX 1: -by striking ‘‘3 properties’’ and inserting ‘‘5 properties’’ FIX 2: by striking ‘‘a person, estate, or trust’’ and inserting ‘‘a person or entity (including a corporation, partnership, proprietorship, association, cooperative, estate, or trust)’’ NOTE: CFPB says they can combine separate entity ownership structures for ability to repay requirements.
SELLER FINANCING--FEDERAL REGULATION CURATIVE LEGISLATION UNDER CONSIDERATION CSSF APPROACH: FIX 3: [relating to no front end compensation] “has received any other compensation related to such loan, including origination points or fees and excluding interest payments.’’ FIX 4: “by adding ….new clause: ‘‘(ii) is not a high-cost mortgage.”
SELLER FINANCING--FEDERAL REGULATION CURATIVE LEGISLATION UNDER CONSIDERATION CSSF APPROACH: FIX 5: has— ‘‘(I) a fixed rate; or ‘‘(II) an adjustable rate that was not determined by a prior contractual obligation between the consumer and such a person or entity and— ‘‘(aa) is adjustable after 5 or more years (as determined by the addition of a margin to a widely available index rate) subject to reasonable annual and lifetime limitations on interest rate increases or is determined by a prior obligation that is included in or assumed by the terms of the loan; or ‘‘(bb) with respect to any part of such loan contractually required to be used to make payments on an existing mortgage loan secured by such a property, is adjustable on or after the date of a rate adjustment on such existing mortgage loan.
SELLER FINANCING--FEDERAL REGULATION CURATIVE LEGISLATION UNDER CONSIDERATION ALTERNATIVE APPROACH: SAFE ACT EXEMPTION— UP TO 24 ORIGINATIONS IN ANY 12 MONTH PERIOD BUT ONLY FOR ORIGINATORS DOING RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOANS FOR PROPERTY THEY OWN. (RELATES TO TILA THRESHOLD OF 5 FOR RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOANS AND 25 FOR OTHER FORMS OF CREDIT BEFORE BECOME A CREDITOR)