RESPRO® To Host Affiliated Business Regulatory Seminars

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Real Estate Services Providers Council (RESPRO®) will host two Affiliated Business Regulatory Seminars with two of the nation's top legal experts, Jay Varon of Foley & Lardner, LLP and Phillip Schulman of K&L Gates LLP, on November 1 in Miami, Florida and November 3 in Chicago, Illinois.

RESPRO®'s Affiliated Businesses Regulatory Seminars will provide attendees an overview of how recent and expected regulatory changes under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, RESPA, FHA, and court decisions particularly impact affiliated businesses in the home buying and financing industry.  

Highlights Include:

• How the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act's new "ability to repay", risk retention, HOEPA, and state preemption provisions will impact the way companies create and manage  affiliated businesses.  
• What to expect over the coming year in RESPA rulemaking and enforcement after being  transferred from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on July 21, 2011.
• How recent HUD and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) developments particularly impact affiliated businesses.
• How to structure a marketing agreement in compliance with RESPA and other laws.
• An overview of pending class action lawsuits involving affiliated businesses, along with class action trends to expect in the future.
• A set-aside time for attendees to ask the speakers their most pressing regulatory compliance questions.

For more information on RESPRO®'s 2011 Affiliated Business Regulatory Seminars, visit http://seminars.respro.org/.  

The Real Estate Services Providers Council, Inc. (RESPRO®) is a national, non-profit trade association of real estate broker-owners, homebuilders, mortgage lenders, title insurers and agencies, and other settlement service providers united to deliver diversified services to consumers through strategic alliances across the home buying and financing industry.  For more information about RESPRO®, see www.respro.org.  

CONTACT: Sue Johnson at 202-862-2051, Ext. 210; [email protected]

SOURCE Real Estate Services Providers Council