Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• REAL ESTATE SETTLEMENT PROCEDURES ACT
  
  Known as RESPA. A consumer protection law that requires lenders to give homebuyers advance notice of closing costs, which are payable at the closing or settlement meeting. It outlaws kickbacks and illegal markups in costs.
  
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