1. SELLER FINANCING--FEDERAL REGULATION
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2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.”

5. 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.

6. 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)