• Meet with FDIC, FHFA, and Treasury officials to discuss South Florida real estate market and construction loan policies of lenders in the South Florida Market.
• Meet with banking regulators, major mortgage market government sponsored enterprises, government mortgage insurers, and government leaders to secure adoption of construction loan policies, mortgage underwriting guidelines, and other resources to stabilizers the economic and job creation engine for South Florida.

Duration: January 8, 2009 to May 31, 2009

General Issues: Economics/Economic Development, Budget/Appropriations, Urban Development/Municipalities, Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation, Housing

Spending: about $120,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB), Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC), Treasury - Dept of