Certain SFR operators have been criticized for gobbling up thousands of properties for corporate ownership, thus removing these units from the inventory of homes available for sale.
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors recently announced that all states and U.S. territories now use a single, common exam to assess mortgage loan originators. In the past, a mortgage license candidate would need to take the national exam and a separate test for each state license. Now, MLOs only need take a national test – the National SAFE MLO Test with Uniform State Content – to hold a license. State regulators started to test a uniform national exam five years ago ...