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Personal residence as collateral for business loan
I am a partner in a hard money lending business, but sometimes a deal comes along that we are not interested in doing for whatever reason. Occasionally I will do a deal myself. In this case, I have a borrower who needs money for one of his many entrepreneurial pursuits. He has offered to collateralize with a stock pledge across multiple of his companies and his primary residence. I want to cross collateralize against both, but I am being told that I have to be a licensed mortgage broker to take the primary residence as collateral due to Dodd Frank. I thought I was ok since the loan was not for consumer purposes. Who is right?