Surprise mortgage fees set to come to an end soon

Full story: Richmond Times-Dispatch

WASHINGTON Remember the bad old days of eleventh-hour mortgage settlement cost shocks and mystery junk-fee charges? Remember when the "good-faith estimates" your lender gave you upfront said closing costs would be about $2,000, but somehow they ballooned to $3,500 on the final settlement sheet? Worse yet, you had to come up with the extra money to ...

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