Deal Allows Risky Home Loans for ‘Business Purposes’

Riverside Press-Enterprise (Calif.), Sept. 12, 2019–Jeff Lazerson
Now there is a bright line lifting consumer protections against unlimited points, high rates, balloon payments and prepayment penalties for every financially desperate borrower who can’t get a mortgage through institutional channels. Such loans now are possible so long as he or she provides a business purpose.

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