8 Basic Requirements of the Ability to Repay Mortgage Rule

Regardless of whether you believe that the so-called Great Recession was caused by reckless and irresponsible mortgage lending or government perversion of free markets by encouraging banks to make risky mortgage loans to people with questionable credit and practically no down payment or a combination of the two, one thing is irrefutable;

The government has created a whole new bureaucracy called the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau (CFPB) whose authority is far reaching and made possible by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act).