In addition, various state agencies provide Michigan laws and regulations for the areas they regulate. The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services provides lending laws, regulations, and policy statements. The Corporations, Securities and Land Development Bureau provides laws governing condominiums, land sales, subdivisions, and manufactured homes. Laws and regulations of other states can be found at Cornell University's Law School , Findlaw , and AllLaw . To search for legal information, use LawCrawler , the legal information search engine, or use an intelligent meta-search engine, such as Google .
DIRT is a real estate lawyers' discussion group.
The purpose is to exchange commentary and information concerning legal issues affecting transactions in real estate. The list consists primarily of attorneys in private practice and law professors specializing in real estate matters. There are also some real estate brokers and attorneys with public agencies and banks. Message volume varies, but commonly runs 5 to 20 messages per workday. Residential specialist attorneys, title insurers, lenders and others interested in the residential market will want to subscribe to this alternative list.