Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Clinch-Powell RC&D Council is a non-profit Community Housing Development Organization and a HUD-approved counseling agency (82394) that, among other activities, helps families with affordable housing goals. Most services are available in alternative formats and locations upon request.
Clinch-Powell receives funding for its housing programs through grants and loans from a number of sources, including but not limited to: USDA Rural Development, US Dept. of Housing & Urban Development [HUD], Corporation for National and Community Service, Federal Home Loan Bank, the Environmental Protection Agency, State of TN, THDA, Fahe/ Just Choice Lending, Citizens Bank & Trust Co. of Grainger County, Rural LISC, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, TVA, Ballad Health, Herron, East TN Foundation, United Way, public fundraising, and private donations.
As a housing counseling agency, Clinch-Powell offers the following services: 1) Pre-Purchase Homebuyer Education Workshops-- utilizing the Realizing the American Dream curriculum; 2) Pre-Purchase Counseling--financial readiness to purchase/own an affordable home; 3) Post-Purchase Counseling and Workshops-- non-delinquency home improvement, energy efficiency; 4) Foreclosure Prevention/Loss Mitigation Counseling—assisting to resolve mortgage defaults; 5) Rental Counseling--locating safe/decent rental housing; 6) Household Budgeting & Credit Repair Counseling and Workshops--financial literacy and personal money management; 7) High-Cost Mortgage Counseling-requirement of certain mortgage loans to ensure borrower’s understanding of the risk of the loan. Clinch-Powell, along with Clinch-Powell Construction Company develops affordable single-family homes to sell to low- to moderate- income families. In addition to coordinating the packaging and servicing of select loan products, subsidiary, TaCL, and Clinch-Powell itself occasionally offers low-interest loans and grants for various affordable housing activities. Clinch-Powell NMLS #195063; S. Karge NMLS#2403630. Please visit http://mortgage.nationwidelicensingsystem.org/ to find more information regarding history and profile as a mortgage lender. Lastly, Clinch-Powell is a property manager for multiple duplexes and single-family rental housing units which it also owns.
In providing counseling services, Clinch-Powell housing counselors will present to their clients several options in the furtherance of their housing goal/service, possibly including recommendations of some of the above listed services. The Clinch-Powell housing counselor will recommend only services that are in the best interest of the client, and will inform the client of any interests the organization has in any particular product or service. Within the agency, individual housing counselors may perform multiple affordable housing activities within the scope of their regular job duties, and as such, will not receive any additional funds or incentives specifically for those activities. Moreover, as per HUD guidelines, housing counselors will not simultaneously participate in specific housing activities.
As the client, you have the right to inquire as to specific relationships Clinch-Powell or its employees have with other entities. You also have the right to choose (or not) the products or services that you feel are right for your household, regardless of any option presented or recommendation made by the housing counselor. YOU ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO UTILIZE/RECEIVE, OR EVEN CONTINUE WITH SERVICES THROUGH YOUR HOUSING COUNSELOR OR CLINCH-POWELL AS A WHOLE. Your decision to utilize or not utilize certain programs and products will not in any way affect your housing counseling service. If you decide to discontinue services with Clinch-Powell, or if your need is beyond the scope of the agency’s capabilities, Clinch-Powell staff will assist you locating a more suitable local agency.
If you/your housing situation meet certain criteria, we may collect personal information directly from you and enter into a computer system call HMIS (Homeless Management Information System). Many agencies that provide assistance use this computer system to gather information about clients that are homeless or at risk of homelessness. We only collect information that we consider to be appropriate. You are not required to provide this information. However, without your information we may not be able to fully assist your needs. All information provided to the HMIS system is safeguarded and held under tightest security.
All programs of Clinch-Powell are available without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation and marital or family status, because all or part of the applicants income derives from any public assistance program; or because the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act. The federal agency that administers compliance with this law concerning this creditor is the Federal Trade Commission- 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20580.