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What is RESPA?

The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act: a consumer-protection law for residential mortgage settlement. Loans for business, commercial, or agricultural purposes are generally exempt.

Where you will use it: this term comes up in the Real Estate Finance course, and the full course glossary collects every term in one place.

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From the free Real Estate Finance course by Devon Coombs, CPA, MBA.