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Article #70: California Mortgage License - A Must for a Californian Broker

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Licensed Californian Brokers have detailed information about your past,
undergone extensive training and possess your prior ten-year work history, and
a California Mortgage License. There is residence with names and addresses. You
actually no separate Californian Mortgage need not take an examination or any
License or Californian Mortgage Broker continuing education courses to get a
License. Anyone who has a California Real Californian Mortgage Broker License under
Estate Broker License is automatically this scheme.
licensed to work as a mortgage broker in You further pay a non-refundable $200
California. application fee and a $100 investigation
There are, in fact, two separate ways to fee. You must obtain and maintain a
becoming a mortgage broker in California. Surety Bond of $25,000 to guarantee the
One is through the California Department license.
of Corporations, based on the California California Mortgage License - Under
Finance Lenders Law (CFL). The other is California's DRE
through The California Department of Real If you have a California Real Estate
Estate (DRE). Broker License, you are automatically
If you have been licensed under the DRE, licensed to operate as a Californian
you can perform the normal broker and Mortgage Broker. This allows you to list
negotiating business with banks, thrift and sell real estate and negotiate loans.
and loans, savings and loans, and credit You can also negotiate first mortgages or
unions. subordinate mortgages.
If licensed to perform under the You cannot automatically broker or
Department of Corporations, you can negotiate a deal in California even if
negotiate loans only with mortgage you are a licensed mortgage broker in any
lenders licensed under the CFL. other state of the union. You still need
Here are some details about both the a California Real Estate Broker License.
procedures to get the Californian You can, however, co-broker a mortgage
Mortgage License: deal and share the commission with
California Mortgage License - Under CFL someone who already has a California Real
Law Estate Broker License.
If you are a mortgage broker, licensed After paying an examination fee of $50,
under CFL Law of the California you'll need to sit for an examination
Department of Corporations, you are also covering all aspects of the real estate
known as the negotiator, and as having a business and real estate financing. Prior
Negotiator License. to this examination, you'll also need to
You are only authorized to act as a have finished two college-level statutory
negotiator to negotiate loans made by a courses. After becoming a California
licensed lender under CFL Law. You are Mortgage Broker, you need to take 45
not authorized to make direct loans, nor hours of approved continuing education
authorized to negotiate or broker loans courses.
to institutions authorized to mortgage When applying for a DRE Californian
brokers under the DRE. Mortgage Broker License, you pay a $165
Licenses issued under the CFL Law are license fee and a $65 fingerprinting fee.
neither transferable nor assignable, and California Mortgage License and Internet
may be issued to individuals, Advertisement
Corporations, Limited Liability Companies Without a Californian Mortgage Broker
(LLCs), and partnerships. License, you may not solicit California
When applying for a California Mortgage residents for mortgage offers failing
License under CFL, you need to furnish which you could be sanctioned by a Desist
proof of US citizenship or of your Alien and Refrain Order.
status. You will also need to furnish






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