About Rachel Dollar
About Rachel Dollar
Rachel Dollar is one of the
foremost innovators and thought leaders in the real estate finance industry and
writes prolificly on mortgage banking issues, most notably, mortgage
fraud. She is a California attorney, a certified
mortgage banker and a certified financial crimes investigator and has
been widely quoted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times
and other publications. She has been recognized as one of the 100
Most Influential Real Estate Leaders in the United States and her website,
Mortgage Fraud Blog (www.mortgagefraudblog.com) was recognized in 2007 by Inman News as the Most
Innovative Real Estate Blog. Ms. Dollar is a nationally recognized
speaker on the topics of mortgage banking and mortgage fraud. She has
trained law enforcement mortgage fraud task forces, regulators and
lenders across the United States. Ms. Dollar has also testified
before Congress and has appeared on C-Span, CNN, CBS News and other
radio and television programs.
As an attorney, Ms. Dollar represents
lending institutions and investors in mortgage banking
related litigation. Ms. Dollar’s clients have included insurance
companies, major banks, mortgage lenders, secondary market investors and other
financial service companies. She has been involved in the discovery,
investigation, resolution and litigation of most of the large-scale mortgage
fraud schemes in play across the country over the past several years. Ms. Dollar
is a shareholder with the law firm of Smith Dollar PC and maintains offices in
Santa Rosa, California.
Ms. Dollar is an author of Protect Yourself from Real Estate and Mortgage
Fraud the first full
scope mortgage fraud book released by a major publisher (Kaplan Publishing,
August 2007.)
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