Affiliated Business Arrangements: Navigating a Complex Compliance Minefield in 2025
Affiliated business arrangements, or ABAs, have become a staple strategy for many lenders, real‑estate brokers, builders, and title agencies that...
Navigating Regulatory Compliance When Hosting Mortgage Events
Mortgage businesses frequently organize events – from first-time homebuyer seminars to open houses, happy hours to charity events – to create and...
Navigating Compliance in Branch P&L Mortgage Models
In the mortgage industry, the Branch P&L (Profit and Loss) model has increasingly become a popular structure. Branch leaders often desire autonomy...
RESPA 101: How Mortgage Marketers Can Stay Compliant
Today’s mortgage marketers don’t have it easy. Not only are they tasked with finding creative and unique ways to help their business stand out from...
Marketing Service Agreements Compliance Essentials
Marketing Service Agreements, or MSAs, have long been a significant topic within the mortgage industry, offering both opportunities and challenges...
Working the Network: How Mortgage Loan Officers Are Using LinkedIn
Despite the rapid addition of new platforms to the social media landscape, LinkedIn remains one of the most popular in terms of use, beating out...
ADA Website Compliance Risks
Designed to bring a world of information to the fingertips of everyone with a computer, the internet has not only brought a slew of privacy issues to...
Contests & Sweepstakes....and a Lawsuit?
Contest, sweepstakes, giveaways—they are all the same, right? Not exactly. While in our everyday language usage, we might use these terms...