(Audio Only) Financing & Developing Workforce Housing in Massachusetts

Our guest speakers, Sarah Barnat, President of Barnat Development LLC, and Deborah Morse, Relationship Manager at MassHousing, discuss opportunities and challenges in financing and developing Workforce Housing in Massachusetts.

MassDevelopment Financing Programs - An Overview (Audio)

e‐Recording is Here to Stay: Evolving Technology at the Registries of Deeds (Audio)

Buyer’s Attorney Beware: Risks of Purchasing Occupied Property (Audio)

Panelists will review the risks of purchasing occupied property starting at the “Offer to Purchase” stage and continuing through the P&S negotiation and finally, following through until the closing is complete. Many new buyers of multi‐family property are finding themselves stuck with under‐market tenants, non‐paying tenants, illegal apartments, statutory violations, etc. Many of these issues can and should be handled at the offer stage. A diligent conveyancing attorney should become familiar with the rights and responsibilities of being a landlord or engage an eviction/landlord‐tenant attorney at a very early stage.

Introducing REBA’s Model Trust for a Two-Unit Condominium (May, 2, 2016 Audio)

Click here for the written materials (PDF)

Form 63: Condominium Declaration of Trust for a Two-Unit Condominium  can be accessed by REBA Members in the Standards & Forms Area of reba.net: 
http://www.reba.net/standards-forms/forms/

Information about the REBA Condominium Law and Practice Section can be found by Clicking Here.

TRID: Dialogue on Current Compliance Issues (Audio and Written Materials May 2, 2016)

Click here for the written materials (PDF)

The TRID Rider referenced in the written materials can be accessed by REBA Members at: http://www.reba.net/member-section/cfpb-resource-page/

Free ALTA Resources:

http://alta.org/cfpb/

Title Topics: TRID Electronic Collaboration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTfow3ZGSY4&feature=youtu.be

Title Topics: 5 Key Areas to Prime Your Operation for the New Closing Process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rze5WuhBz0A&feature=youtu.be

Advising Clients in a Changing Landscape: New Challenges of Residential Mortgage Underwriting

Advising Clients in a Changing Landscape:

New Challenges of Residential Mortgage Underwriting (Audio)

Shant Banosian, Brian L. Lynch, Christine J. Miele

The CFPB has utterly changed residential real estate transactions, not only with the TRID Rule for closing attorneys, but with the Ability to Repay Rule and the Qualified Mortgage (“QM”) Guidelines rules for our lender clients. Join our panel of mortgage broker underwriters for a roadmap to these new federally mandated protocols which have been in effect now since January. Any lawyer who represents buyers – or sellers – in residential transactions should attend this program.

The Impending TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule (Audio)

The Practical effects of the CFPB’s Authority over our Lender Clients

 

 

 

Ruth A. Dillingham; Michelle L. Korsmo; Julie M. Palmaccio

The new Integrated Mortgage Disclosure rule takes effect on August 1, 2015. You must be prepared for new procedures, new documents and changes to some common business practices. The panelists will discuss issues as diverse as anticipated purchase and sale agreement revisions, the increased liability for lenders if the rule is not followed and how to set your firm apart by adoption of ALTA Best Practices.

  

CFPB: Encryption and Data Security Requirements (Audio Only)

From The 2015 REBA Spring Conference

Rick Diamond; Christopher J. Gulotta; Richard M. Reass

The CFPB, the OCC, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve requires lenders to be compliant with federal consumer protection and privacy laws. Lenders will look to conveyancing attorneys to validate their compliance with these regulations. Our panel will address how law firms can start the compliance process; implement data security controls; develop written policies; and conduct onsite security assessments. These experts will describe how to take action now to protect conveyancing practices under the new guidelines from the sophisticated scams.

Recent Developments in Massachusetts Case Law (Audio Only)

Recent Developments in Massachusetts Case Law (Audio Only)

Philip S. Lapatin

From the 2017 REBA Spring Conference

May 1, 2017