Federal · Title 12 — Banks and Banking
12 U.S.C. § 1709: Equity skimming; penalty; persons liable; one dwelling exemption
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purchasing one- to four-family dwellings (including condominiums and cooperatives) which are subject to a loan in default at time of purchase or in default within one year subsequent to the purchase and the loan is secured by a mortgage or deed of trust insured or held by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, or the loan is made by the Department of Veterans Affairs, failing to make payments under the mortgage or deed of trust as the payments become due, regardless of whether the purchaser is obligated on the loan, and applying or authorizing the application of rents from such dwellings for his own use,
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