Allowable fees are a State law issue. If you take it into income, then it will be a finance charge. If you hold it in an escrow account, the balancing of that account is going to be a nightmare. There is still a question as to whether the fee is actually paid to a public official at the time the loan is made - as it might not be for 30 years and who is to say what the charge will be then?
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