TRAVERSE CITY — The ongoing shutdown in Washington, D.C., is putting some government services on hold and could cause major headaches for the housing industry.

Officials working in offices like the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are not able to perform key parts of their job, which include verifying tax information for mortgages, providing loans, issuing new insurance policies and regulating new home construction.

The situation is concerning to Northern Michigan Realtors like Tommy Corbett, executive director of Brick and Corbett Realty in Traverse City.

“Instability is never good for our business,” Corbett said. “We always want to have people feel things are going normally and they’re

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