Chapter 26
Mortgages and lending laws
The documents behind a loan, the loan programs and the federal rules
The promissory note and the mortgage or deed of trust; mortgagor and mortgagee; acceleration, due-on-sale and defeasance clauses; assumption and "subject to"; conventional, FHA and VA loans; the primary and secondary markets; Truth in Lending, RESPA, the Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure, and ECOA. With a 3D loan desk to work.
- 26.1The note and the security instrumentA promise, and something to back it
- 26.2Clauses, and passing a loan onWhat the lender may do, and when
- 26.3Loan programs and loan typesFHA insures, VA guarantees, neither lends
- 26.4Primary and secondary marketsWhere loans are made, and where they are sold
- 26.5The federal lending lawsDisclose the cost, keep settlement honest, lend without bias
- 26.6Play it out: the loan deskOne loan, from signing to payoff

