Tez Romero

Tez Romero

Mortgage Professional America

Mary Tez Romero-Maquipotin

Senior Legal Researcher

3+ years experience14,479 Total views on Mortgage Professional America in 2025

Mary's specialty topics

Legal Cases Regulation Compliance

Tez Romero is a Senior Legal Researcher at Key Media. Since joining the company in 2023, she has covered legal and regulatory developments across a range of industries and jurisdictions.

For Mortgage Professional, she reports on court decisions, newly filed lawsuits, regulatory developments, and legislative changes affecting mortgage brokers, lenders, servicers, and the broader mortgage industry. Her coverage focuses on the legal, compliance, and consumer protection issues shaping the mortgage sector.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“The mortgage industry operates at the intersection of lending, regulation, and consumer protection. Covering the legal and regulatory developments shaping that balance gives me the opportunity to help readers understand not only what is changing, but why it matters.”

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Featured content from Mary

Class action accuses Fairway, Hallmark of loan originator kickback scheme Borrowers accuse D.R. Horton, DHI Mortgage of hiding true FHA loan costs UWM sues California broker over eight allegedly fraudulent loans

Previous experience

  • Key Media — Legal Researcher

Education

  • Juris Doctor, Holy Name University
  • B.S. in Business administration Major in Marketing Management, Holy Name University

Read the latest stories by Mary

Veteran sues Shellpoint, alleging it told him to miss a payment to get help

He says he called before missing a payment - his credit took a 120-day-late hit anyway

Veteran sues Shellpoint, alleging it told him to miss a payment to get help

Debt buyer Legacy Mortgage sued over alleged threat to foreclose discharged debt

A discharged debt, a foreclosure warning, and a Social Security number on the envelope

Debt buyer Legacy Mortgage sued over alleged threat to foreclose discharged debt

CMBS trust moves to foreclose on office park over $130 million loan

A 2016 CMBS loan hit its maturity date, and now the trust wants the property sold

CMBS trust moves to foreclose on office park over $130 million loan

Homeowner alleges Nationstar foreclosed after serving her at a vacant house

She kept coming back to check the mail. The foreclosure, she alleges, went the other way

Homeowner alleges Nationstar foreclosed after serving her at a vacant house

Colorado homeowners allege mortgage collector can't prove it owns their loan

They asked who really owned the loan. The default date then jumped eight years, they allege

Colorado homeowners allege mortgage collector can't prove it owns their loan

Amtrak names Goldman Sachs and Bank of America in bid to condemn D.C. land

A 580-square-foot parcel, a planned rail bridge, and a defendant list stacked with lenders

Amtrak names Goldman Sachs and Bank of America in bid to condemn D.C. land

Onity and Equifax misreported a paid-off mortgage, lawsuit alleges

They paid the mortgage off and never left the house - their credit file said otherwise

Onity and Equifax misreported a paid-off mortgage, lawsuit alleges

Freddie Mac sues Oregon memory care borrower, seeks facility receiver

Freddie Mac says two loans went unpaid - now it wants a receiver running the facility

Freddie Mac sues Oregon memory care borrower, seeks facility receiver

Lawsuit accuses LGI Homes, loanDepot of drawing renters into costly loans

Sales staff ran credit and pushed loans - all without a mortgage license, the suit claims

Lawsuit accuses LGI Homes, loanDepot of drawing renters into costly loans

Trustee seeks to foreclose $34.4M CMBS loan after alleged first-payment default

A 2026 bond-deal loan allegedly failed on its first payment weeks after being securitized

Trustee seeks to foreclose $34.4M CMBS loan after alleged first-payment default