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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549


                                    Form 8-K


                                 CURRENT REPORT

                     Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
                         Securities Exchange Act of 1934


                Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
                                  May 25, 1998


                        RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC.
           (Exact name of the registrant as specified in it's charter)

                          33-95932, 333-8733, 333-33493
                                   333-48327                          51-0368240


Delaware                    (Commission File Number)            (I.R.S. Employee
(State or other                                              Identification No.)
jurisdiction of
incorporation)

8400 Normandale Lake Boulevard                                             55437
Minneapolis, Minnesota                                                (Zip Code)
(Address of Principal
 Executive Offices)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code
(612) 832-7000



Item 5.  Other Events

See the respective monthly reports, each reflecting the required information for
the May 1998 distribution to holders of the following series of Conduit Mortgage
Pass-Through Certificates.


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Master Serviced by Residential Funding Corporation

          1995-QS1   1996-QS1   1996-QS2  1996-QS3  1996-QS4  1996-QS6  1996-QS5
          1996-QS7   1996-QS8   1997-QS1  1997-QS2  1997-QS3  1997-QS3  1997-QS4
          1997-QS5  1997-QS6  1997-QS7  1997-QS8  1997-QS9  1997-QS10  1997-QS11
          1997-QS12 1997-QS13 1998-QS1 1998-QS2 1998-QS3GR1 1998-QS3GR2 1998-QS4
          1998-QS5

Item 7. Financial  Statements and Exhibits (a) Not applicable (b) Not applicable
(c) See Item 5.



                                   SIGNATURES

Pursuant  to the  requirements  of  the  Securities  ExchangeAct  of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC.


 By: /s/Davee Olson


 Name:  Davee Olson
Title:  Chief Financial Officer
Dated: May 25, 1998

















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                                   SIGNATURES

Pursuant  to the  requirements  of  the  Securities  ExchangeAct  of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC.


By:


Name:  Davee Olson
Title:  Chief Financial Officer
Dated: May 25, 1998




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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1995-QS1 (POOL # 4180)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4180
______________________________________________________________________________
_
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
______________________________________________________________________________
_
A-1   76110FAA1    54,500,000.00             0.00     6.600000  %          0.00
A-2   76110FAB9    82,500,000.00    26,387,854.19     6.900000  %  5,512,295.16
A-3   76110FAC7    22,250,000.00    22,250,000.00     7.300000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FAD5    46,000,000.00    46,000,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FAE3    22,100,000.00    22,100,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FAF0    31,109,000.00    31,109,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
R                         514.42     2,326,135.63     0.000000  %          0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  258,459,514.42   150,172,989.82                  5,512,295.16
=====================================================================
==========
______________________________________________________________________________
_
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
______________________________________________________________________________
_

A-1             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-2       151,730.16  5,664,025.32            0.00       0.00     20,875,559.03
A-3       135,354.17    135,354.17            0.00       0.00     22,250,000.00
A-4       287,500.00    287,500.00            0.00       0.00     46,000,000.00
A-5       138,125.00    138,125.00            0.00       0.00     22,100,000.00
A-6       194,431.25    194,431.25            0.00       0.00     31,109,000.00
R          76,172.61     76,172.61            0.00       0.00      2,326,135.63

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          983,313.19  6,495,608.35            0.00       0.00    144,660,694.66
=====================================================================
==========
______________________________________________________________________________
_



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
______________________________________________________________________________
_
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
______________________________________________________________________________
_
A-1      0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
A-2    319.852778  66.815699     1.839153    68.654852   0.000000    253.037079
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     6.083333     6.083333   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     6.250000     6.250000   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     6.250000     6.250000   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.250000     6.250000   0.000000   1000.000000


______________________________________________________________________________
_


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1995-QS1 (POOL # 4180)

                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4180
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       30,351.20
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                     1,848.06

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       81,968.51
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                   11,993.96


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    64   5,508,124.20

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    6     571,721.12

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          4     413,289.46


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            23
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      3,215,665.63

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     144,660,694.66

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,647

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                      12

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS               1,449,773.07

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    5,092,333.12

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                       41,918.65

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                               SENIOR          SUBORDINATE
PERCENTAGE FOR CURRENT DISTRIBUTION          98.45102930 %     1.54897070 %
CURRENT PREPAYMENT PERCENTAGE               100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %
PERCENTAGE FOR NEXT DISTRIBUTION             98.39200580 %     1.60799420 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                               0.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                                    0.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                           0.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          9.33255765
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              296.29

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                55.97034993

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS1 (POOL # 4194)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4194
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-  76110FAG8    52,015,000.00             0.00     6.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FAH6    67,186,000.00    26,731,961.28     6.250000  %  4,467,392.55
A-I-  76110FAJ2    22,562,000.00    22,562,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FAK9    31,852,000.00    31,852,000.00     6.900000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FAL7    14,535,000.00    14,535,000.00     7.050000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FAM5    18,417,136.00    18,417,136.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FAN3    20,000,000.00    20,000,000.00     6.700000  %          0.00
A-II  76110FAQ6    29,374,968.00    13,237,985.77     6.027500  %     11,676.21
R                           0.53     2,026,594.48     0.000000  %          0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  255,942,104.53   149,362,677.53                  4,479,068.76
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-1           0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-2     139,228.97  4,606,621.52            0.00       0.00     22,264,568.73
A-I-3     126,911.25    126,911.25            0.00       0.00     22,562,000.00
A-I-4     183,149.00    183,149.00            0.00       0.00     31,852,000.00
A-I-5      85,393.13     85,393.13            0.00       0.00     14,535,000.00
A-I-6     111,270.20    111,270.20            0.00       0.00     18,417,136.00
A-I-7     111,666.67    111,666.67            0.00       0.00     20,000,000.00
A-II       66,493.30     78,169.51            0.00       0.00     13,226,309.56
R         235,149.57    235,149.57            0.00       0.00      2,026,594.48

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,059,262.09  5,538,330.85            0.00       0.00    144,883,608.77
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
A-I-   397.879935  66.492908     2.072291    68.565199   0.000000    331.387026
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     5.625000     5.625000   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     5.750000     5.750000   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     5.875000     5.875000   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.041667     6.041667   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     5.583334     5.583334   0.000000   1000.000000
A-II   450.655326   0.397488     2.263604     2.661092   0.000000    450.257837


_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1996-QS1 (POOL # 4194)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4194
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       31,445.04
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       74,699.07
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                   19,933.73


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    31   4,160,229.19

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    7   1,032,156.65

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          5     584,994.39


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            15
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      3,490,578.41

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     144,883,608.77

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,283

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       9

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS               2,472,502.63

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,328,956.27

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                               SENIOR          SUBORDINATE
PERCENTAGE FOR CURRENT DISTRIBUTION          98.64317210 %     1.35682790 %
CURRENT PREPAYMENT PERCENTAGE               100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %
PERCENTAGE FOR NEXT DISTRIBUTION             98.60122580 %     1.39877420 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         100,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            1,584,285.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,584,285.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.98737000
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              306.70

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                56.60796180

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS2 (POOL # 4201)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4201
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FAS2    40,000,000.00             0.00     6.400000  %          0.00
A-2   76110FAT0    16,000,000.00     1,987,865.93     7.000000  %  1,987,865.93
A-3   76110FAU7    28,500,000.00    28,500,000.00     7.050000  %  2,319,251.69
A-4   76110FAV5    15,000,000.00    15,000,000.00     7.050000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FAW3    14,000,000.00    14,000,000.00     7.350000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FAX1    10,000,000.00    10,000,000.00     7.450000  %          0.00
A-7   76110FAY9    26,000,000.00    26,000,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-8   76110FAZ6    14,043,411.00    14,043,411.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-9   76110FBA0    18,190,000.00    18,190,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-10  76110FBB8       178,007.00       132,907.13     0.000000  %        152.80
R                           0.00     1,819,114.18     0.000000  %          0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  181,911,418.00   129,673,298.24                  4,307,270.42
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-2        11,595.88  1,999,461.81            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-3       167,437.50  2,486,689.19            0.00       0.00     26,180,748.31
A-4        88,125.00     88,125.00            0.00       0.00     15,000,000.00
A-5        85,750.00     85,750.00            0.00       0.00     14,000,000.00
A-6        62,083.33     62,083.33            0.00       0.00     10,000,000.00
A-7       157,083.33    157,083.33            0.00       0.00     26,000,000.00
A-8        87,771.32     87,771.32            0.00       0.00     14,043,411.00
A-9       113,687.50    113,687.50            0.00       0.00     18,190,000.00
A-10            0.00        152.80            0.00       0.00        132,754.33
R         113,235.54    113,235.54            0.00       0.00      1,819,114.18

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          886,769.40  5,194,039.82            0.00       0.00    125,366,027.82
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1      0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
A-2    124.241621 124.241621     0.724743   124.966364   0.000000      0.000000
A-3   1000.000000  81.377252     5.875000    87.252252   0.000000    918.622748
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     5.875000     5.875000   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     6.125000     6.125000   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.208333     6.208333   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7   1000.000000   0.000000     6.041667     6.041667   0.000000   1000.000000
A-8   1000.000000   0.000000     6.250000     6.250000   0.000000   1000.000000
A-9   1000.000000   0.000000     6.250000     6.250000   0.000000   1000.000000
A-10   746.639907   0.858393     0.000000     0.858393   0.000000    745.781514

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1996-QS2 (POOL # 4201)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4201
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       26,591.43
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       80,206.00
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    2,356.14


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    35   5,369,941.72

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    9   2,176,374.14

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1     110,907.58


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            12
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      2,363,089.87

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     125,366,027.82

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,247

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       3

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                 314,641.30

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,102,586.20

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                               SENIOR          SUBORDINATE
PERCENTAGE FOR CURRENT DISTRIBUTION          98.59715590 %     1.40284410 %
CURRENT PREPAYMENT PERCENTAGE               100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %
PERCENTAGE FOR NEXT DISTRIBUTION             98.54895760 %     1.45104240 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                               0.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                                    0.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                           0.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.78174478
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              312.21

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                68.91597526


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS3 (POOL # 4211)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4211
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-  76110FBC6    42,855,000.00             0.00     6.780000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FBD4    26,000,000.00     9,192,196.70     7.150000  %  9,192,196.70
A-I-  76110FBE2    10,596,000.00    10,596,000.00     7.290000  %    105,063.02
A-I-  76110FBF9    25,000,000.00    18,875,880.84     7.250000  %    254,368.69
A-I-  76110FBG7    18,587,000.00    18,587,000.00     7.460000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FBH5    21,696,000.00    21,696,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FBJ1     8,047,000.00     8,047,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FBK8    17,436,000.00    17,436,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FBL6    25,145,000.00    25,145,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FBM4    19,000,000.00    19,000,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FBN2    15,875,562.00    15,875,562.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-II  76110FBP7    20,551,438.00    16,146,847.10     7.750000  %    284,910.40
A-P   76110FBQ5     1,166,695.86     1,016,927.51     0.000000  %      4,395.86
R-I   76110FBR3           100.00             0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
R-II  76110FBS1           100.00             0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FBT9    12,528,500.00    12,255,242.21     7.750000  %     13,051.02
M-2   76110FBU6     5,568,000.00     5,446,556.91     7.750000  %      5,800.22
M-3   76110FBV4     4,176,000.00     4,084,917.70     7.750000  %      4,350.17
B-1                 1,809,600.00     1,770,130.99     7.750000  %      1,885.07
B-2                   696,000.00       680,819.61     7.750000  %        725.03
B-3                 1,670,738.96     1,582,872.69     7.750000  %      1,685.65
SPRE                        0.00             0.00     0.710685  %          0.00
A-V   7611OFHY2             0.00             0.00     0.000000  %          0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  278,404,734.82   207,434,954.26                  9,868,431.83
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-1           0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-2      54,326.67  9,246,523.37            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-3      63,849.46    168,912.48            0.00       0.00     10,490,936.98
A-I-4     113,118.33    367,487.02            0.00       0.00     18,621,512.15
A-I-5     114,613.52    114,613.52            0.00       0.00     18,587,000.00
A-I-6     138,985.38    138,985.38            0.00       0.00     21,696,000.00
A-I-7      51,549.38     51,549.38            0.00       0.00      8,047,000.00
A-I-8     111,695.66    111,695.66            0.00       0.00     17,436,000.00
A-I-9     161,079.80    161,079.80            0.00       0.00     25,145,000.00
A-I-10    121,714.70    121,714.70            0.00       0.00     19,000,000.00
A-I-11    101,699.43    101,699.43            0.00       0.00     15,875,562.00
A-II      103,437.30    388,347.70            0.00       0.00     15,861,936.70
A-P             0.00      4,395.86            0.00       0.00      1,012,531.65
R-I             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-II            0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        78,507.53     91,558.55            0.00       0.00     12,242,191.19
M-2        34,890.84     40,691.06            0.00       0.00      5,440,756.69
M-3        26,168.13     30,518.30            0.00       0.00      4,080,567.53
B-1        11,339.53     13,224.60            0.00       0.00      1,768,245.92
B-2         4,361.36      5,086.39            0.00       0.00        680,094.58
B-3        10,139.94     11,825.59            0.00       0.00      1,553,752.90
SPRED     121,855.89    121,855.89            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-V        20,844.54     20,844.54            0.00       0.00              0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,444,177.39 11,312,609.22            0.00       0.00    197,539,088.29
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS3 (POOL # 4211)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4211
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
A-I-   353.546027 353.546027     2.089487   355.635514   0.000000      0.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   9.915347     6.025808    15.941155   0.000000    990.084653
A-I-   755.035234  10.174748     4.524733    14.699481   0.000000    744.860486
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.166327     6.166327   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.406037     6.406037   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.406037     6.406037   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.406037     6.406037   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.406037     6.406037   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.406037     6.406037   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.406037     6.406037   0.000000   1000.000000
A-II   785.679674  13.863283     5.033093    18.896376   0.000000    771.816391
A-P    871.630341   3.767788     0.000000     3.767788   0.000000    867.862553
R-I      0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
R-II     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    978.189106   1.041707     6.266315     7.308022   0.000000    977.147399
M-2    978.189100   1.041706     6.266315     7.308021   0.000000    977.147394
M-3    978.189104   1.041707     6.266315     7.308022   0.000000    977.147397
B-1    978.189097   1.041705     6.266319     7.308024   0.000000    977.147392
B-2    978.189095   1.041710     6.266322     7.308032   0.000000    977.147385
B-3    947.408738   1.008925     6.069135     7.078060   0.000000    929.979452

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
     MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1996-QS3 (POOL # 4211)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4211
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       42,535.30
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       58,884.25
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    1,823.62


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    36   4,139,066.45

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                   12   2,049,381.78

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          2     319,364.25


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             8
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        879,060.30

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     197,539,088.29

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,892

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       2

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                 229,962.68

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    9,457,751.67

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         87.06222500 %    10.50291500 %    1.94462080 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT           89.51977360 %     0.00000000 %   10.48022640 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            86.88950270 %    11.01732098 %    2.03641350 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         164,142.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            2,495,950.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   2,495,950.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.74959100
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              311.78

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                70.95392556


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS4 (POOL # 4216)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4216
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-  76110FBW2    45,914,000.00             0.00     6.850000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FBX0    26,945,000.00     8,550,833.62    11.000000  %  1,161,144.18
A-I-  76110FBY8    15,646,000.00     8,964,346.45     7.300000  %  4,975,968.73
A-I-  76110FBZ5    32,740,000.00    32,740,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FCA9    10,023,000.00    10,023,000.00     7.700000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FCB7    26,811,000.00    26,811,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FCC5    18,046,000.00    18,046,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FCD3     9,094,000.00     9,094,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FCE1    10,284,000.00    10,284,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FCF8    27,538,000.00    27,538,000.00     7.900000  %          0.00
A-II  76110FCG6    16,021,000.00     9,830,393.13     7.250000  %    399,595.57
A-II  76110FCH4     8,580,000.00     8,580,000.00     7.650000  %          0.00
A-P   76110FCJ0     3,039,637.99     2,480,508.97     0.000000  %     48,228.60
A-V   76110FGN7             0.00             0.00     0.755401  %          0.00
R-I   76110FCK7           100.00             0.00     8.000000  %          0.00
R-II  76110FCL5           100.00             0.00     8.000000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FCM3    13,230,500.00    12,967,969.91     8.000000  %     13,913.72
M-2   76110FCN1     5,570,800.00     5,460,259.75     8.000000  %      5,858.48
M-3   76110FCP6     4,456,600.00     4,368,168.61     8.000000  %      4,686.74
B-1   76110FCR2     2,228,400.00     2,184,182.32     8.000000  %      2,343.47
B-2   76110FCS0       696,400.00       682,581.47     8.000000  %        732.36
B-3   76110FCT8     1,671,255.97     1,252,629.64     8.000000  %          0.00
STRI                        0.00             0.00     0.123595  %          0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  278,535,793.96   199,857,873.87                  6,612,471.85
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-1           0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-2      78,289.31  1,239,433.49            0.00       0.00      7,389,689.44
A-I-3      54,468.18  5,030,436.91            0.00       0.00      3,988,377.72
A-I-4     204,381.35    204,381.35            0.00       0.00     32,740,000.00
A-I-5      64,237.67     64,237.67            0.00       0.00     10,023,000.00
A-I-6     178,527.17    178,527.17            0.00       0.00     26,811,000.00
A-I-7     120,163.42    120,163.42            0.00       0.00     18,046,000.00
A-I-8      60,554.48     60,554.48            0.00       0.00      9,094,000.00
A-I-9      68,478.36     68,478.36            0.00       0.00     10,284,000.00
A-I-10    181,075.96    181,075.96            0.00       0.00     27,538,000.00
A-II-1     59,321.24    458,916.81            0.00       0.00      9,430,797.56
A-II-2     54,632.37     54,632.37            0.00       0.00      8,580,000.00
A-P             0.00     48,228.60            0.00       0.00      2,432,280.37
A-V       125,660.89    125,660.89            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-I             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-II            0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        86,350.19    100,263.91            0.00       0.00     12,954,056.19
M-2        36,358.39     42,216.87            0.00       0.00      5,454,401.27
M-3        29,086.45     33,773.19            0.00       0.00      4,363,481.87
B-1        14,543.88     16,887.35            0.00       0.00      2,181,838.85
B-2         4,545.12      5,277.48            0.00       0.00        681,849.11
B-3         7,770.90      7,770.90            0.00       0.00      1,199,639.61
STRIP      10,927.84     10,927.84            0.00       0.00              0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,439,373.17  8,051,845.02            0.00       0.00    193,192,411.99
===============================================================================



































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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS4 (POOL # 4216)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4216
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
A-I-   317.343983  43.093122     2.905523    45.998645   0.000000    274.250861
A-I-   572.948131 318.034560     3.481285   321.515845   0.000000    254.913570
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.242558     6.242558   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.409026     6.409026   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.658729     6.658729   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.658729     6.658729   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.658729     6.658729   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.658728     6.658728   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.575494     6.575494   0.000000   1000.000000
A-II   613.594228  24.941987     3.702718    28.644705   0.000000    588.652241
A-II  1000.000000   0.000000     6.367409     6.367409   0.000000   1000.000000
A-P    816.054076  15.866562     0.000000    15.866562   0.000000    800.187514
R-I      0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
R-II     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    980.157206   1.051640     6.526601     7.578241   0.000000    979.105566
M-2    980.157204   1.051641     6.526601     7.578242   0.000000    979.105563
M-3    980.157207   1.051640     6.526601     7.578241   0.000000    979.105567
B-1    980.157207   1.051638     6.526602     7.578240   0.000000    979.105569
B-2    980.157194   1.051637     6.526594     7.578231   0.000000    979.105557
B-3    749.513936   0.000000     4.649737     4.649737   0.000000    717.807228

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
     MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1996-QS4 (POOL # 4216)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4216
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       41,061.36
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       60,196.31
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    1,731.99


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    48   4,291,683.63

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    5     615,583.55

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          2     470,857.17


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            15
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      2,062,051.62

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     193,192,411.99

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,024

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       2

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                 221,737.41

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    6,306,137.67

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         85.29139730 %    11.40630500 %    2.06116140 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            85.93245520 %    11.78718103 %    2.13007170 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         205,069.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            3,159,391.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   2,785,358.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.98363100
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              303.79

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                69.35999472


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS5 (POOL # 4222)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4222
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-  76110FCU5    23,848,000.00     7,526,764.52     9.500000  %  1,112,627.99
A-I-  76110FCV3    25,000,000.00    12,250,704.20     7.600000  %  1,755,348.14
A-I-  76110FCW1    12,373,000.00             0.00     6.650000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FCX9     7,100,000.00     2,228,844.71     7.450000  %  1,757,823.49
A-I-  76110FCY7    10,137,000.00    10,137,000.00     7.600000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FCZ4     5,558,000.00     5,558,000.00     7.800000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FDA8    16,926,000.00    16,926,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FDB6     6,884,000.00     6,884,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FDC4    11,229,000.00    11,229,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FDD2    22,501,000.00    22,501,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-II  76110FDE0    11,162,000.00     8,075,898.22     8.000000  %    472,601.97
A-II  76110FDF7     4,525,000.00     4,525,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-P   76110FDG5     1,105,878.69       945,134.37     0.000000  %     44,841.79
A-V   76110FGP2             0.00             0.00     0.865776  %          0.00
R     76110FDH3           100.00             0.00     8.000000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FDJ9     7,918,500.00     7,778,277.26     8.000000  %     10,229.17
M-2   76110FDK6     3,958,800.00     3,888,696.63     8.000000  %      5,114.01
M-3   76110FDL4     2,815,100.00     2,765,249.53     8.000000  %      3,636.57
B-1   76110FDM2     1,407,600.00     1,382,673.88     8.000000  %      1,818.35
B-2   76110FDN0       439,800.00       432,011.93     8.000000  %        568.14
B-3   76110FDP5     1,055,748.52     1,000,442.77     8.000000  %      1,315.68

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  175,944,527.21   126,034,698.02                  5,165,925.30
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-1      59,341.73  1,171,969.72            0.00       0.00      6,414,136.53
A-I-2      77,268.57  1,832,616.71            0.00       0.00     10,495,356.06
A-I-3           0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-4      13,780.48  1,771,603.97            0.00       0.00        471,021.22
A-I-5      63,936.86     63,936.86            0.00       0.00     10,137,000.00
A-I-6      35,978.36     35,978.36            0.00       0.00      5,558,000.00
A-I-7     112,375.74    112,375.74            0.00       0.00     16,926,000.00
A-I-8      45,704.51     45,704.51            0.00       0.00      6,884,000.00
A-I-9      74,552.00     74,552.00            0.00       0.00     11,229,000.00
A-I-10    149,389.50    149,389.50            0.00       0.00     22,501,000.00
A-II-1     53,617.81    526,219.78            0.00       0.00      7,603,296.25
A-II-2     30,042.56     30,042.56            0.00       0.00      4,525,000.00
A-P             0.00     44,841.79            0.00       0.00        900,292.58
A-V        90,557.38     90,557.38            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        51,641.83     61,871.00            0.00       0.00      7,768,048.09
M-2        25,817.98     30,931.99            0.00       0.00      3,883,582.62
M-3        18,359.15     21,995.72            0.00       0.00      2,761,612.96
B-1         9,179.91     10,998.26            0.00       0.00      1,380,855.53
B-2         2,868.23      3,436.37            0.00       0.00        431,443.79
B-3         6,642.18      7,957.86            0.00       0.00        999,127.55

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          921,054.78  6,086,980.08            0.00       0.00    120,868,773.18
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS5 (POOL # 4222)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4222
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-   315.614077  46.654981     2.488332    49.143313   0.000000    268.959096
A-I-   490.028168  70.213926     3.090743    73.304669   0.000000    419.814242
A-I-     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
A-I-   313.921790 247.580773     1.940913   249.521686   0.000000     66.341017
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.307276     6.307276   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.473257     6.473257   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.639238     6.639238   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.639237     6.639237   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.639238     6.639238   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.639238     6.639238   0.000000   1000.000000
A-II   723.517131  42.340259     4.803602    47.143861   0.000000    681.176872
A-II  1000.000000   0.000000     6.639240     6.639240   0.000000   1000.000000
A-P    854.645612  40.548557     0.000000    40.548557   0.000000    814.097055
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    982.291755   1.291807     6.521668     7.813475   0.000000    980.999948
M-2    982.291763   1.291808     6.521668     7.813476   0.000000    980.999955
M-3    982.291759   1.291808     6.521669     7.813477   0.000000    980.999950
B-1    982.291759   1.291809     6.521675     7.813484   0.000000    980.999950
B-2    982.291792   1.291814     6.521669     7.813483   0.000000    980.999977
B-3    947.614655   1.246206     6.291441     7.537647   0.000000    946.368881

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
     MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1996-QS5 (POOL # 4222)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4222
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       25,758.38
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       50,488.58
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      997.98


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    29   2,938,122.33

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    8   1,614,220.33

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          2     172,957.90


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            11
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      1,424,320.81

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     120,868,773.18

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,244

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       2

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                 126,431.21

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,996,925.70

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         85.56549370 %    11.45099200 %    2.23361390 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            85.64233670 %    11.92470420 %    2.34347130 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         125,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            3,518,891.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,900,000.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          9.13705200
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              309.02

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                68.69709169


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS7 (POOL # 4228)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4228
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-  76110FDQ3    20,106,154.00             0.00     7.050000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FDR1    43,322,483.00    16,821,817.40     6.056250  %  3,482,580.22
A-I-  76110FDS9             0.00             0.00     2.943750  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FDT7    13,330,948.00     6,060,949.44     7.125000  %  3,421,482.48
A-I-  76110FDU4    24,973,716.00    22,377,288.40     7.600000  %  1,221,957.81
A-I-  76110FDV2             0.00             0.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FDW0     1,000,000.00     1,000,000.00     7.700000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FDX8     9,539,699.00     9,539,699.00     7.700000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FDY6    22,526,000.00    22,526,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FDZ3    11,650,000.00    11,650,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FEA7    30,421,000.00    30,421,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FEB5     8,619,000.00     8,619,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-II  76110FEC3    20,104,000.00    15,596,377.82     8.000000  %    661,813.15
A-P   76110FED1       601,147.92       489,705.98     0.000000  %     10,381.21
A-V   76110FGQ0             0.00             0.00     0.805122  %          0.00
R-I   76110FEE9           100.00             0.00     8.000000  %          0.00
R-II  76110FEF6           100.00             0.00     8.000000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FEG4     9,114,600.00     8,981,576.39     8.000000  %      8,566.70
M-2   76110FEH2     5,126,400.00     5,051,582.43     8.000000  %      4,818.24
M-3   76110FEJ8     3,645,500.00     3,592,295.50     8.000000  %      3,426.36
B-1                 1,822,700.00     1,796,098.49     8.000000  %      1,713.13
B-2                   569,600.00       561,286.95     8.000000  %        535.36
B-3                 1,366,716.75     1,329,835.50     8.000000  %      1,268.41

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  227,839,864.67   166,414,513.30                  8,818,543.07
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-1           0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-2      83,615.97  3,566,196.19            0.00       0.00     13,339,237.18
A-I-3      40,643.06     40,643.06            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-4      35,443.62  3,456,926.10            0.00       0.00      2,639,466.96
A-I-5     139,583.35  1,361,541.16            0.00       0.00     21,155,330.59
A-I-6         487.80        487.80            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-7       6,319.80      6,319.80            0.00       0.00      1,000,000.00
A-I-8      60,288.98     60,288.98            0.00       0.00      9,539,699.00
A-I-9     147,906.28    147,906.28            0.00       0.00     22,526,000.00
A-I-10     76,494.19     76,494.19            0.00       0.00     11,650,000.00
A-I-11    199,745.05    199,745.05            0.00       0.00     30,421,000.00
A-I-12     56,592.57     56,592.57            0.00       0.00      8,619,000.00
A-II      102,406.20    764,219.35            0.00       0.00     14,934,564.67
A-P             0.00     10,381.21            0.00       0.00        479,324.77
A-V       109,967.76    109,967.76            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-I             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-II            0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        58,973.26     67,539.96            0.00       0.00      8,973,009.69
M-2        33,168.82     37,987.06            0.00       0.00      5,046,764.19
M-3        23,587.11     27,013.47            0.00       0.00      3,588,869.14
B-1        11,793.23     13,506.36            0.00       0.00      1,794,385.36
B-2         3,685.42      4,220.78            0.00       0.00        560,751.59
B-3         8,731.73     10,000.14            0.00       0.00      1,328,567.09

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,199,434.20 10,017,977.27            0.00       0.00    157,595,970.23
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS7 (POOL # 4228)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4228
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
A-I-   388.293012  80.387364     1.930083    82.317447   0.000000    307.905648
A-I-   454.652545 256.657102     2.658747   259.315849   0.000000    197.995443
A-I-   896.033590  48.929755     5.589210    54.518965   0.000000    847.103835
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.319800     6.319800   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.319799     6.319799   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.566025     6.566025   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.566025     6.566025   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.566025     6.566025   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     6.566025     6.566025   0.000000   1000.000000
A-II   775.784810  32.919476     5.093822    38.013298   0.000000    742.865334
A-P    814.618106  17.268977     0.000000    17.268977   0.000000    797.349129
R-I      0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
R-II     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    985.405436   0.939888     6.470197     7.410085   0.000000    984.465549
M-2    985.405437   0.939888     6.470197     7.410085   0.000000    984.465549
M-3    985.405431   0.939888     6.470199     7.410087   0.000000    984.465544
B-1    985.405437   0.939886     6.470198     7.410084   0.000000    984.465551
B-2    985.405460   0.939888     6.470190     7.410078   0.000000    984.465572
B-3    973.014708   0.928071     6.388837     7.316908   0.000000    972.086637

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
     MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1996-QS7 (POOL # 4228)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4228
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       33,659.93
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       53,254.95
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    2,842.29


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    33   3,775,440.36

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    7     916,970.17

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1      76,051.97


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            15
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      1,877,984.95

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     157,595,970.23

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,627

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       5

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                 347,797.05

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    8,653,722.46

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         86.89875010 %    10.59129600 %    2.21568470 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            86.44806410 %    11.17328254 %    2.34456640 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         100,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            4,556,797.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   2,278,399.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          9.11255100
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              311.93

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                69.16962072


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS8 (POOL # 4231)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4231
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FEK5     4,000,000.00     2,523,092.83     7.400000  %    184,289.84
A-2   76110FEL3     4,074,824.00     1,003,878.40     7.300000  %    316,125.19
A-3   76110FEM1    13,128,206.00    13,128,206.00     7.050000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FEN9     3,765,148.00     3,765,148.00     7.300000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FEP4    10,500,000.00     7,702,864.94     7.400000  %    752,570.62
A-6   76110FEQ2     2,600,500.00     2,600,500.00     7.400000  %          0.00
A-7   76110FER0    31,579,563.00    21,457,046.73     6.156250  %  1,239,359.25
A-8   76110FES8             0.00             0.00     2.843750  %          0.00
A-9   76110FET6    32,965,000.00     9,622,333.47     0.000000  %  2,599,985.96
A-10  76110FEU3    20,953,719.00    20,458,119.00     7.400000  %     61,841.44
A-11  76110FEV1    13,975,000.00    13,975,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-12  76110FEW9     2,000,000.00     2,000,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-13  76110FEX7    20,646,958.00    20,646,958.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-14  76110FEY5       115,824.70        95,919.89     0.000000  %      1,343.85
A-15  76110FGR8             0.00             0.00     0.901389  %          0.00
R-I   76110FEZ2           100.00             0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
R-II  76110FFA6           100.00             0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FFB4     6,661,000.00     6,575,151.37     7.750000  %     10,668.83
M-2   76110FFC2     4,440,700.00     4,383,467.16     7.750000  %      7,112.61
M-3   76110FFD0     3,108,500.00     3,068,436.88     7.750000  %      4,978.84
B-1                 1,509,500.00     1,490,045.20     7.750000  %      2,417.75
B-2                   444,000.00       438,277.63     7.750000  %        711.15
B-3                 1,154,562.90     1,081,806.07     7.750000  %      1,755.20

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  177,623,205.60   136,016,251.57                  5,183,160.53
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1        15,453.63    199,743.47            0.00       0.00      2,338,802.99
A-2         6,065.55    322,190.74            0.00       0.00        687,753.21
A-3        76,605.55     76,605.55            0.00       0.00     13,128,206.00
A-4        22,749.44     22,749.44            0.00       0.00      3,765,148.00
A-5        47,179.11    799,749.73            0.00       0.00      6,950,294.32
A-6        15,927.75     15,927.75            0.00       0.00      2,600,500.00
A-7       109,333.17  1,348,692.42            0.00       0.00     20,217,687.48
A-8        50,504.15     50,504.15            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-9        58,548.19  2,658,534.15            0.00       0.00      7,022,347.51
A-10      125,303.49    187,144.93            0.00       0.00     20,396,277.56
A-11       89,643.59     89,643.59            0.00       0.00     13,975,000.00
A-12       12,829.14     12,829.14            0.00       0.00      2,000,000.00
A-13      132,441.33    132,441.33            0.00       0.00     20,646,958.00
A-14            0.00      1,343.85            0.00       0.00         94,576.04
A-15      101,477.22    101,477.22            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-I             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-II            0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        42,176.76     52,845.59            0.00       0.00      6,564,482.54
M-2        28,118.05     35,230.66            0.00       0.00      4,376,354.55
M-3        19,682.70     24,661.54            0.00       0.00      3,063,458.04
B-1         9,558.00     11,975.75            0.00       0.00      1,487,627.45
B-2         2,811.36      3,522.51            0.00       0.00        437,566.48
B-3         6,939.31      8,694.51            0.00       0.00      1,079,872.83

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          973,347.49  6,156,508.02            0.00       0.00    130,832,913.00
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1996-QS8 (POOL # 4231)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4231
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    630.773208  46.072461     3.863408    49.935869   0.000000    584.700746
A-2    246.361168  77.580084     1.488543    79.068627   0.000000    168.781084
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     5.835188     5.835188   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     6.042110     6.042110   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5    733.606185  71.673392     4.493249    76.166641   0.000000    661.932793
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.124880     6.124880   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7    679.459900  39.245611     3.462150    42.707761   0.000000    640.214289
A-9    291.895449  78.871105     1.776071    80.647176   0.000000    213.024344
A-10   976.347874   2.951335     5.980012     8.931347   0.000000    973.396539
A-11  1000.000000   0.000000     6.414568     6.414568   0.000000   1000.000000
A-12  1000.000000   0.000000     6.414570     6.414570   0.000000   1000.000000
A-13  1000.000000   0.000000     6.414569     6.414569   0.000000   1000.000000
A-14   828.147105  11.602447     0.000000    11.602447   0.000000    816.544658
R-I      0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
R-II     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    987.111750   1.601686     6.331896     7.933582   0.000000    985.510065
M-2    987.111753   1.601687     6.331896     7.933583   0.000000    985.510066
M-3    987.111752   1.601686     6.331896     7.933582   0.000000    985.510066
B-1    987.111759   1.601689     6.331898     7.933587   0.000000    985.510070
B-2    987.111779   1.601689     6.331892     7.933581   0.000000    985.510090
B-3    936.983225   1.520229     6.010335     7.530564   0.000000    935.308787

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
     MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1996-QS8 (POOL # 4231)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4231
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       27,712.17
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       41,022.20
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      501.33


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    24   2,525,554.90

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    2     231,080.91

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            25
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      2,342,636.01

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     130,832,912.99

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,299

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       1

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                  63,136.68

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,961,255.84

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         87.46531580 %    10.32005700 %    2.21462740 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            86.98976730 %    10.70395423 %    2.29853520 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         158,130.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            3,552,464.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,776,232.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.97834368
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              332.89

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                73.65755648


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
           RESIDENTIAL FUNDING MORTGAGE SECURITIES I, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS1 (POOL # 4237)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4237
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FFE8    33,258,000.00     3,093,182.66     6.750000  %  3,093,182.66
A-2   76110FFF5    10,146,000.00     3,048,395.72     6.750000  %    951,924.32
A-3   76110FFG3    24,816,000.00    24,816,000.00     6.750000  %    952,495.56
A-4   76110FFH1    15,938,000.00    15,938,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FFJ7    10,253,000.00    10,253,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FFK4    31,511,646.00    23,526,841.63    11.000000  %  1,070,914.79
A-7   76110FFL2    17,652,000.00    17,652,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-8   76110FFM0     5,655,589.00     5,655,589.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-9   76110FFN8    19,068,000.00    19,068,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-10  76110FFP3    10,267,765.00    10,267,765.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-11  76110FFQ1    47,506,000.00    47,506,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-12  76110FFR9       212,947.62       185,398.73     0.000000  %     19,779.63
A-13  76110FFS7             0.00             0.00     0.950157  %          0.00
R     76110FFT5           100.00             0.00     7.500000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FFV0     9,377,000.00     9,294,504.56     7.500000  %      6,264.48
M-2   76110FFW8     6,251,000.00     6,196,005.99     7.500000  %      4,176.10
M-3   76110FFW8     4,375,700.00     4,337,204.17     7.500000  %      2,923.27
B-1                 1,624,900.00     1,610,604.72     7.500000  %      1,085.54
B-2                   624,800.00       619,303.24     7.500000  %        417.41
B-3                 1,500,282.64     1,478,777.26     7.500000  %        996.69

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  250,038,730.26   204,546,572.68                  6,104,160.45
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1        17,364.10  3,110,546.76            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-2        17,112.69    969,037.01            0.00       0.00      2,096,471.40
A-3       139,308.79  1,091,804.35            0.00       0.00     23,863,504.44
A-4        89,470.64     89,470.64            0.00       0.00     15,938,000.00
A-5        57,556.94     57,556.94            0.00       0.00     10,253,000.00
A-6       215,228.25  1,286,143.04            0.00       0.00     22,455,926.84
A-7        99,092.47     99,092.47            0.00       0.00     17,652,000.00
A-8        31,748.60     31,748.60            0.00       0.00      5,655,589.00
A-9       107,041.42    107,041.42            0.00       0.00     19,068,000.00
A-10       57,639.83     57,639.83            0.00       0.00     10,267,765.00
A-11      296,314.35    296,314.35            0.00       0.00     47,506,000.00
A-12            0.00     19,779.63            0.00       0.00        165,619.10
A-13      161,633.11    161,633.11            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        57,973.62     64,238.10            0.00       0.00      9,288,240.08
M-2        38,647.03     42,823.13            0.00       0.00      6,191,829.89
M-3        27,052.92     29,976.19            0.00       0.00      4,334,280.90
B-1        10,046.00     11,131.54            0.00       0.00      1,609,519.18
B-2         3,862.85      4,280.26            0.00       0.00        618,885.83
B-3         9,223.74     10,220.43            0.00       0.00      1,477,780.57

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,436,317.35  7,540,477.80            0.00       0.00    198,442,412.23
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
           RESIDENTIAL FUNDING MORTGAGE SECURITIES I, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS1 (POOL # 4237)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4237
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     93.005673  93.005673     0.522103    93.527776   0.000000      0.000000
A-2    300.452959  93.822622     1.686644    95.509266   0.000000    206.630337
A-3   1000.000000  38.382316     5.613668    43.995984   0.000000    961.617684
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     5.613668     5.613668   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     5.613668     5.613668   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6    746.607830  33.984730     6.830118    40.814848   0.000000    712.623099
A-7   1000.000000   0.000000     5.613668     5.613668   0.000000   1000.000000
A-8   1000.000000   0.000000     5.613668     5.613668   0.000000   1000.000000
A-9   1000.000000   0.000000     5.613668     5.613668   0.000000   1000.000000
A-10  1000.000000   0.000000     5.613669     5.613669   0.000000   1000.000000
A-11  1000.000000   0.000000     6.237409     6.237409   0.000000   1000.000000
A-12   870.630674  92.884955     0.000000    92.884955   0.000000    777.745720
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    991.202363   0.668069     6.182534     6.850603   0.000000    990.534295
M-2    991.202366   0.668069     6.182536     6.850605   0.000000    990.534297
M-3    991.202361   0.668069     6.182535     6.850604   0.000000    990.534292
B-1    991.202363   0.668066     6.182534     6.850600   0.000000    990.534298
B-2    991.202369   0.668070     6.182538     6.850608   0.000000    990.534299
B-3    985.665781   0.664335     6.148002     6.812337   0.000000    985.001446

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
           RESIDENTIAL FUNDING MORTGAGE SECURITIES I, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS1 (POOL # 4237)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4237
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       42,177.45
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       45,075.63
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    1,781.12


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    34   4,119,510.24

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    5     576,187.94

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1     208,933.94


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             7
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        895,308.80

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     198,442,412.23

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,905

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       2

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                 224,457.44

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    5,966,247.48

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         88.48293960 %     9.70229000 %    1.81477000 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            88.13752430 %     9.98493752 %    1.86919790 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         182,005.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            2,143,653.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   2,143,653.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.77591722
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              337.63

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                79.36466963


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS2 (POOL # 4240)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4240
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FFY4    31,108,570.00    22,518,508.62     9.000000  %  1,834,933.56
A-2   76110FFZ1    37,000,000.00    18,477,875.14     7.250000  %  3,956,533.84
A-3   76110FGA5     5,200,000.00     5,200,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FGB3    18,200,000.00    18,200,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FGC1    10,000,000.00     7,046,970.05     7.250000  %    630,800.35
A-6   76110FGD9     7,371,430.00     7,371,430.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-7   76110FGE7    10,400,783.00    10,400,783.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-8   76110FGF4    31,000,000.00    31,000,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-9   76110FGG2       130,561.76       127,277.29     0.000000  %     12,049.15
A-10  76110FGH0             0.00             0.00     0.720488  %          0.00
R     76100FGJ6           100.00             0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FGK3     4,931,600.00     4,892,391.27     7.750000  %      3,234.76
M-2   76110FGL1     4,109,600.00     4,076,926.58     7.750000  %      2,695.59
M-3   76110FGM9     2,630,200.00     2,609,288.56     7.750000  %      1,725.21
B-1                 1,068,500.00     1,060,004.87     7.750000  %        700.86
B-2                   410,900.00       407,633.14     7.750000  %        269.52
B-3                   821,738.81       815,205.60     7.750000  %        538.99

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  164,383,983.57   134,204,294.12                  6,443,481.83
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       167,013.14  2,001,946.70            0.00       0.00     20,683,575.06
A-2       110,397.32  4,066,931.16            0.00       0.00     14,521,341.30
A-3        31,067.76     31,067.76            0.00       0.00      5,200,000.00
A-4       108,737.14    108,737.14            0.00       0.00     18,200,000.00
A-5        42,102.60    672,902.95            0.00       0.00      6,416,169.70
A-6        44,041.11     44,041.11            0.00       0.00      7,371,430.00
A-7        66,425.71     66,425.71            0.00       0.00     10,400,783.00
A-8       197,984.82    197,984.82            0.00       0.00     31,000,000.00
A-9             0.00     12,049.15            0.00       0.00        115,228.14
A-10       79,682.31     79,682.31            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        31,245.78     34,480.54            0.00       0.00      4,889,156.51
M-2        26,037.73     28,733.32            0.00       0.00      4,074,230.99
M-3        16,664.51     18,389.72            0.00       0.00      2,607,563.35
B-1         6,769.83      7,470.69            0.00       0.00      1,059,304.01
B-2         2,603.39      2,872.91            0.00       0.00        407,363.62
B-3         5,206.40      5,745.39            0.00       0.00        814,666.61

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          935,979.55  7,379,461.38            0.00       0.00    127,760,812.29
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS2 (POOL # 4240)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4240
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    723.868330  58.984825     5.368718    64.353543   0.000000    664.883505
A-2    499.402031 106.933347     2.983711   109.917058   0.000000    392.468684
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     5.974569     5.974569   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     5.974568     5.974568   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5    704.697005  63.080035     4.210260    67.290295   0.000000    641.616970
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     5.974568     5.974568   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7   1000.000000   0.000000     6.386607     6.386607   0.000000   1000.000000
A-8   1000.000000   0.000000     6.386607     6.386607   0.000000   1000.000000
A-9    974.843553  92.286976     0.000000    92.286976   0.000000    882.556577
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    992.049491   0.655925     6.335830     6.991755   0.000000    991.393566
M-2    992.049489   0.655925     6.335831     6.991756   0.000000    991.393564
M-3    992.049487   0.655924     6.335834     6.991758   0.000000    991.393563
B-1    992.049481   0.655929     6.335826     6.991755   0.000000    991.393552
B-2    992.049501   0.655926     6.335824     6.991750   0.000000    991.393575
B-3    992.049530   0.655926     6.335833     6.991759   0.000000    991.393616

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
     MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS2 (POOL # 4240)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4240
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       27,276.94
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       29,387.68
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    1,537.92


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    22   2,150,340.34

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    4     708,193.40

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             6
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        900,000.54

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     127,760,812.29

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,267

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       1

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                 200,399.51

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    6,354,737.16

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         89.66157630 %     8.63578800 %    1.70263600 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            89.14785410 %     9.05672924 %    1.78724100 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         100,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            4,931,520.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,900,600.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.79839536
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              339.12

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                77.72096132


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS3 (POOL # 4244)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4244
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FGS6    32,109,000.00    12,759,691.72     7.250000  %  3,286,182.86
A-2   76110FGT4    26,579,000.00    26,579,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-3   76110FGU1    16,821,000.00    16,821,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FGV9    23,490,000.00    23,490,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FGW7     7,138,000.00     7,138,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FGX5     1,000,000.00     1,000,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-7   76110FGY3    15,374,000.00     9,845,626.21     9.500000  %    938,909.39
A-8   76110FGZ0    27,500,000.00    27,500,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-9   76110FHA4       107,351.50       104,277.14     0.000000  %        650.06
A-10  76110FHB2             0.00             0.00     0.733940  %          0.00
R     76110FHC0           100.00             0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FHD8     5,346,700.00     5,303,611.18     7.750000  %      3,423.21
M-2   76110FHE6     4,112,900.00     4,079,754.32     7.750000  %      2,633.27
M-3   76110FHF3     2,632,200.00     2,610,987.20     7.750000  %      1,685.26
B-1                 1,069,400.00     1,060,781.76     7.750000  %        684.68
B-2                   411,200.00       407,886.17     7.750000  %        263.27
B-3                   823,585.68       816,948.40     7.750000  %        527.30

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  164,514,437.18   139,517,564.10                  4,234,959.30
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1        76,979.32  3,363,162.18            0.00       0.00      9,473,508.86
A-2       165,880.69    165,880.69            0.00       0.00     26,579,000.00
A-3       104,980.59    104,980.59            0.00       0.00     16,821,000.00
A-4       151,488.84    151,488.84            0.00       0.00     23,490,000.00
A-5        46,033.52     46,033.52            0.00       0.00      7,138,000.00
A-6         6,449.07      6,449.07            0.00       0.00      1,000,000.00
A-7        77,832.84  1,016,742.23            0.00       0.00      8,906,716.82
A-8       177,349.65    177,349.65            0.00       0.00     27,500,000.00
A-9             0.00        650.06            0.00       0.00        103,627.08
A-10       85,208.95     85,208.95            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        34,203.40     37,626.61            0.00       0.00      5,300,187.97
M-2        26,310.65     28,943.92            0.00       0.00      4,077,121.05
M-3        16,838.46     18,523.72            0.00       0.00      2,609,301.94
B-1         6,841.06      7,525.74            0.00       0.00      1,060,097.08
B-2         2,630.48      2,893.75            0.00       0.00        407,622.90
B-3         5,268.57      5,795.87            0.00       0.00        816,421.10

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          984,296.09  5,219,255.39            0.00       0.00    135,282,604.80
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS3 (POOL # 4244)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4244
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    397.386768 102.344603     2.397437   104.742040   0.000000    295.042165
A-2   1000.000000   0.000000     6.241043     6.241043   0.000000   1000.000000
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     6.241043     6.241043   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     6.449078     6.449078   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     6.449078     6.449078   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.449070     6.449070   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7    640.407585  61.071249     5.062628    66.133877   0.000000    579.336336
A-8   1000.000000   0.000000     6.449078     6.449078   0.000000   1000.000000
A-9    971.361742   6.055435     0.000000     6.055435   0.000000    965.306307
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    991.941044   0.640247     6.397105     7.037352   0.000000    991.300797
M-2    991.941044   0.640247     6.397104     7.037351   0.000000    991.300798
M-3    991.941038   0.640248     6.397105     7.037353   0.000000    991.300790
B-1    991.941051   0.640247     6.397101     7.037348   0.000000    991.300804
B-2    991.941075   0.640248     6.397082     7.037330   0.000000    991.300827
B-3    991.940996   0.640249     6.397112     7.037361   0.000000    991.300746

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DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS3 (POOL # 4244)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4244
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       28,595.81
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       33,580.59
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    29   2,774,437.11

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    0           0.00

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             8
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      1,585,041.90

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     135,282,604.80

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,279

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,144,893.34

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         89.75709610 %     8.60345000 %    1.63945370 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            89.44306850 %     8.86042295 %    1.68971620 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         100,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            2,785,164.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,623,566.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.80477028
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              341.98

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                82.23144857


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS4 (POOL # 4247)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4247
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FHK2    43,231,010.00    16,086,962.45     7.250000  %  4,964,628.56
A-2   76110FHL0    35,775,000.00    35,775,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-3   76110FHM8    22,398,546.00    22,398,546.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FHN6    24,498,244.00    18,466,234.11    10.000000  %  1,103,250.66
A-5   76110FHP1    17,675,100.00    17,675,100.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FHQ9     7,150,100.00     7,150,100.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-7   76110FHR7    52,000,000.00    52,000,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-8   76110FHS5       155,284.33       153,250.00     0.000000  %        145.12
A-9   76110FHT3             0.00             0.00     0.742743  %          0.00
R     76110FHU0           100.00             0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FHV8     7,186,600.00     7,134,424.76     7.750000  %      7,499.98
M-2   76110FHW6     4,975,300.00     4,939,178.95     7.750000  %      5,192.26
M-3   76110FHX4     3,316,900.00     3,292,819.05     7.750000  %      3,461.54
B-1                 1,216,200.00     1,207,370.30     7.750000  %      1,269.23
B-2                   552,900.00       548,885.91     7.750000  %        577.01
B-3                   995,114.30       987,889.73     7.750000  %      1,038.51

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  221,126,398.63   187,815,761.26                  6,087,062.87
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1        97,129.44  5,061,758.00            0.00       0.00     11,122,333.89
A-2       216,001.38    216,001.38            0.00       0.00     35,775,000.00
A-3       135,237.37    135,237.37            0.00       0.00     22,398,546.00
A-4       153,786.14  1,257,036.80            0.00       0.00     17,362,983.45
A-5       110,398.21    110,398.21            0.00       0.00     17,675,100.00
A-6        46,147.98     46,147.98            0.00       0.00      7,150,100.00
A-7       335,616.97    335,616.97            0.00       0.00     52,000,000.00
A-8             0.00        145.12            0.00       0.00        153,104.88
A-9       116,174.19    116,174.19            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        46,046.81     53,546.79            0.00       0.00      7,126,924.78
M-2        31,878.31     37,070.57            0.00       0.00      4,933,986.69
M-3        21,252.42     24,713.96            0.00       0.00      3,289,357.51
B-1         7,792.58      9,061.81            0.00       0.00      1,206,101.07
B-2         3,542.61      4,119.62            0.00       0.00        548,308.90
B-3         6,376.01      7,414.52            0.00       0.00        986,851.22

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        1,327,380.42  7,414,443.29            0.00       0.00    181,728,698.39
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS4 (POOL # 4247)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4247
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    372.116276 114.839523     2.246754   117.086277   0.000000    257.276753
A-2   1000.000000   0.000000     6.037774     6.037774   0.000000   1000.000000
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     6.037775     6.037775   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4    753.777867  45.033867     6.277435    51.311302   0.000000    708.744000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     6.245974     6.245974   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.454173     6.454173   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7   1000.000000   0.000000     6.454173     6.454173   0.000000   1000.000000
A-8    986.899322   0.934544     0.000000     0.934544   0.000000    985.964778
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    992.739927   1.043606     6.407315     7.450921   0.000000    991.696321
M-2    992.739925   1.043607     6.407314     7.450921   0.000000    991.696318
M-3    992.739923   1.043607     6.407314     7.450921   0.000000    991.696316
B-1    992.739928   1.043603     6.407318     7.450921   0.000000    991.696325
B-2    992.739935   1.043606     6.407325     7.450931   0.000000    991.696328
B-3    992.739960   1.043609     6.407314     7.450923   0.000000    991.696354

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS4 (POOL # 4247)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4247
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       38,602.43
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       36,169.31
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    26   2,748,518.97

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    4     264,629.22

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1     238,463.98


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             7
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      1,404,970.93

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     181,728,698.39

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,708

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    5,889,662.28

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                       76,314.11

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         90.34939450 %     8.18832800 %    1.46227710 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            90.03636460 %     8.44680511 %    1.50970800 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         146,943.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            6,633,792.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   2,211,264.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.81849902
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              342.28

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                82.18317646


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS5 (POOL # 4248)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4248
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FHZ9    33,300,000.00    12,061,025.31     7.250000  %  2,995,770.99
A-2   76110FJA2    10,800,000.00    10,800,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-3   76110FJB0    29,956,909.00    21,992,293.54    10.000000  %  1,123,414.12
A-4   76110FJC8    24,000,000.00    24,000,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FJD6    11,785,091.00    11,785,091.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FJE4    18,143,000.00    18,143,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-7   76110FJF1     4,767,000.00     4,767,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-8   76110FJG9             0.00             0.00     0.750000  %          0.00
A-9   76110FJH7    42,917,000.00    42,917,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-10  76110FJJ3       340,158.57       283,661.96     0.000000  %        301.16
A-11  76110FJK0             0.00             0.00     0.631569  %          0.00
R-I   76110FJL8           100.00             0.00     8.000000  %          0.00
R-II  76110FJM6           100.00             0.00     8.000000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FJN4     6,730,000.00     6,687,451.77     8.000000  %      4,185.14
M-2   76110FJP9     4,330,000.00     4,302,625.00     8.000000  %      2,692.67
M-3   76110FJQ7     2,886,000.00     2,867,754.22     8.000000  %      1,794.70
B-1                 1,058,000.00     1,051,311.14     8.000000  %        657.93
B-2                   481,000.00       477,959.04     8.000000  %        299.12
B-3                   866,066.26       860,590.82     8.000000  %        538.55

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  192,360,424.83   162,996,763.80                  4,129,654.38
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1        72,839.92  3,068,610.91            0.00       0.00      9,065,254.32
A-2        65,224.23     65,224.23            0.00       0.00     10,800,000.00
A-3       183,196.74  1,306,610.86            0.00       0.00     20,868,879.42
A-4       144,942.74    144,942.74            0.00       0.00     24,000,000.00
A-5        71,173.47     71,173.47            0.00       0.00     11,785,091.00
A-6       120,905.57    120,905.57            0.00       0.00     18,143,000.00
A-7        31,767.45     31,767.45            0.00       0.00      4,767,000.00
A-8        26,812.54     26,812.54            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-9       259,187.82    259,187.82            0.00       0.00     42,917,000.00
A-10            0.00        301.16            0.00       0.00        283,360.80
A-11       85,752.61     85,752.61            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-I             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-II            0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        44,565.41     48,750.55            0.00       0.00      6,683,266.63
M-2        28,672.84     31,365.51            0.00       0.00      4,299,932.33
M-3        19,110.81     20,905.51            0.00       0.00      2,865,959.52
B-1         7,005.97      7,663.90            0.00       0.00      1,050,653.21
B-2         3,185.13      3,484.25            0.00       0.00        477,659.92
B-3         5,735.00      6,273.55            0.00       0.00        860,052.27

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        1,170,078.25  5,299,732.63            0.00       0.00    158,867,109.42
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS5 (POOL # 4248)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4248
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    362.192952  89.963093     2.187385    92.150478   0.000000    272.229860
A-2   1000.000000   0.000000     6.039281     6.039281   0.000000   1000.000000
A-3    734.130933  37.501002     6.115342    43.616344   0.000000    696.629930
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     6.039281     6.039281   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     6.039280     6.039280   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.664034     6.664034   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7   1000.000000   0.000000     6.664034     6.664034   0.000000   1000.000000
A-9   1000.000000   0.000000     6.039281     6.039281   0.000000   1000.000000
A-10   833.910961   0.885352     0.000000     0.885352   0.000000    833.025609
R-I      0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
R-II     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    993.677826   0.621863     6.621903     7.243766   0.000000    993.055963
M-2    993.677829   0.621864     6.621903     7.243767   0.000000    993.055965
M-3    993.677831   0.621864     6.621902     7.243766   0.000000    993.055967
B-1    993.677826   0.621862     6.621900     7.243762   0.000000    993.055964
B-2    993.677838   0.621871     6.621892     7.243763   0.000000    993.055967
B-3    993.677805   0.621858     6.621895     7.243753   0.000000    993.055966

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DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS5 (POOL # 4248)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4248
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       33,526.61
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       38,915.84
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    28   3,137,155.23

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    7     792,251.29

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          2     167,300.30


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             8
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        934,916.46

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     158,867,109.42

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,524

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,027,574.08

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         90.01451520 %     8.51672700 %    1.46875760 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            89.76091560 %     8.71744852 %    1.50605940 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         146,943.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            5,770,813.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,923,604.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.93827291
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              343.56

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                82.58825045


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS6 (POOL # 4249)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4249
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FJR5    42,946,000.00    31,856,518.50     7.500000  %  2,226,572.34
A-2   76110FJS3    15,683,000.00    15,683,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-3   76110FJT1    18,746,000.00    18,746,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FJU8     2,046,000.00     2,046,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FJV6    21,277,000.00    20,632,862.49     7.500000  %     66,661.46
A-6   76110FJW4       164,986.80       137,232.71     0.000000  %        509.28
A-7   76110FJX2             0.00             0.00     0.740552  %          0.00
R     76110FJY0           100.00             0.00     7.500000  %          0.00
M-1                 2,654,400.00     2,574,039.95     7.500000  %      8,316.31
M-2   76110FKA0     1,061,700.00     1,029,557.80     7.500000  %      3,326.34
M-3   76110FKB8       690,100.00       669,207.71     7.500000  %      2,162.10
B-1                   371,600.00       360,350.07     7.500000  %      1,164.23
B-2                   159,300.00       154,477.29     7.500000  %        499.09
B-3                   372,446.48       361,170.93     7.500000  %      1,166.88

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                  106,172,633.28    94,250,417.45                  2,310,378.03
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_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       199,082.27  2,425,654.61            0.00       0.00     29,629,946.16
A-2        98,008.43     98,008.43            0.00       0.00     15,683,000.00
A-3       117,150.16    117,150.16            0.00       0.00     18,746,000.00
A-4        12,786.15     12,786.15            0.00       0.00      2,046,000.00
A-5       128,941.81    195,603.27            0.00       0.00     20,566,201.03
A-6             0.00        509.28            0.00       0.00        136,723.43
A-7        58,158.34     58,158.34            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        16,086.06     24,402.37            0.00       0.00      2,565,723.64
M-2         6,434.06      9,760.40            0.00       0.00      1,026,231.46
M-3         4,182.11      6,344.21            0.00       0.00        667,045.61
B-1         2,251.95      3,416.18            0.00       0.00        359,185.84
B-2           965.38      1,464.47            0.00       0.00        153,978.20
B-3         2,257.08      3,423.96            0.00       0.00        360,004.05

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          646,303.80  2,956,681.83            0.00       0.00     91,940,039.42
===============================================================================
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AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    741.780806  51.845861     4.635642    56.481503   0.000000    689.934945
A-2   1000.000000   0.000000     6.249342     6.249342   0.000000   1000.000000
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     6.249342     6.249342   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     6.249340     6.249340   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5    969.726112   3.133029     6.060150     9.193179   0.000000    966.593083
A-6    831.779936   3.086792     0.000000     3.086792   0.000000    828.693144
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    969.725720   3.133028     6.060149     9.193177   0.000000    966.592691
M-2    969.725723   3.133032     6.060149     9.193181   0.000000    966.592691
M-3    969.725706   3.133024     6.060151     9.193175   0.000000    966.592682
B-1    969.725700   3.133019     6.060145     9.193164   0.000000    966.592680
B-2    969.725612   3.133019     6.060138     9.193157   0.000000    966.592593
B-3    969.725717   3.133041     6.060146     9.193187   0.000000    966.592703

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DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS6 (POOL # 4249)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4249
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       19,521.82
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       19,311.96
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    16   1,424,718.70

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    2     362,460.38

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             2
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        201,251.76

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                      91,940,039.42

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,184

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    2,005,818.80

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         94.52913660 %     4.54007100 %    0.93079230 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            94.40960410 %     4.63236772 %    0.95112910 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         154,147.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            2,123,453.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,894,825.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.55718245
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              162.11

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                86.59485649


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS7 (POOL # 4255)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4255
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FKC6    82,491,000.00    62,414,699.31     7.500000  %  4,851,959.00
A-2   76110FKD4    20,984,000.00    20,984,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-3   76110FKE2    11,000,000.00    11,000,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FKF9     4,000,000.00     4,000,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FKG7    17,500,000.00    17,500,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FKH5    17,500,000.00    17,500,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-7   76110FKJ1    21,925,000.00    19,056,957.02     9.500000  %    693,137.00
A-8   76110FKP7       156,262.27       148,703.22     0.000000  %        120.09
A-9   76110FKQ5             0.00             0.00     0.777924  %          0.00
R     76110FKK8           100.00             0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FKL6     6,697,000.00     6,643,868.71     7.750000  %      4,114.76
M-2   76110FKM4     3,827,000.00     3,796,638.12     7.750000  %      2,351.38
M-3   76110FKN2     2,870,200.00     2,847,429.00     7.750000  %      1,763.50
B-1                 1,052,400.00     1,044,050.69     7.750000  %        646.61
B-2                   478,400.00       474,604.56     7.750000  %        293.94
B-3                   861,188.35       854,356.04     7.750000  %        529.13

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                  191,342,550.62   168,265,306.67                  5,554,915.41
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_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       388,196.05  5,240,155.05            0.00       0.00     57,562,740.31
A-2       130,512.62    130,512.62            0.00       0.00     20,984,000.00
A-3        68,415.88     68,415.88            0.00       0.00     11,000,000.00
A-4        24,878.50     24,878.50            0.00       0.00      4,000,000.00
A-5       112,471.56    112,471.56            0.00       0.00     17,500,000.00
A-6       105,215.33    105,215.33            0.00       0.00     17,500,000.00
A-7       150,134.37    843,271.37            0.00       0.00     18,363,820.02
A-8             0.00        120.09            0.00       0.00        148,583.13
A-9       108,551.28    108,551.28            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        42,699.79     46,814.55            0.00       0.00      6,639,753.95
M-2        24,400.78     26,752.16            0.00       0.00      3,794,286.74
M-3        18,300.28     20,063.78            0.00       0.00      2,845,665.50
B-1         6,710.06      7,356.67            0.00       0.00      1,043,404.08
B-2         3,050.25      3,344.19            0.00       0.00        474,310.62
B-3         5,490.90      6,020.03            0.00       0.00        853,826.91

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        1,189,027.65  6,743,943.06            0.00       0.00    162,710,391.26
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS7 (POOL # 4255)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4255
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    756.624351  58.818041     4.705920    63.523961   0.000000    697.806310
A-2   1000.000000   0.000000     6.219625     6.219625   0.000000   1000.000000
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     6.219625     6.219625   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     6.219625     6.219625   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     6.426946     6.426946   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.012305     6.012305   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7    869.188462  31.614002     6.847634    38.461636   0.000000    837.574459
A-8    951.625879   0.768516     0.000000     0.768516   0.000000    950.857363
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    992.066404   0.614418     6.375958     6.990376   0.000000    991.451986
M-2    992.066402   0.614419     6.375955     6.990374   0.000000    991.451983
M-3    992.066407   0.614417     6.375960     6.990377   0.000000    991.451989
B-1    992.066410   0.614415     6.375960     6.990375   0.000000    991.451995
B-2    992.066388   0.614423     6.375941     6.990364   0.000000    991.451965
B-3    992.066416   0.614418     6.375957     6.990375   0.000000    991.451998

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DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS7 (POOL # 4255)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4255
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       34,412.10
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       25,032.97
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      761.72


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    20   1,884,530.26

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    3     359,872.54

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             4
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      1,112,594.66

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     162,710,391.26

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,512

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       1

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                  97,446.18

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    5,450,680.01

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         90.68447330 %     7.90400000 %    1.41152700 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            90.37212490 %     8.16155999 %    1.45885530 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         200,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            5,740,277.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,913,425.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.84789206
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              345.07

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                85.03617765


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS8 (POOL # 4256)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4256
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FKU6    13,399,900.00     6,581,631.60     7.000000  %    822,947.80
A-2   76110FKV4    20,850,000.00    10,997,026.96     7.000000  %  1,189,211.55
A-3   76110FKW2    16,320,750.00    12,986,481.70    10.000000  %    402,431.87
A-4   76110FKX0    19,700,543.00    19,700,543.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FKY8    21,419,142.00    21,419,142.00     7.150000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FKZ5     6,323,320.00     6,323,320.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-7   76110FLA9    16,496,308.00    16,496,308.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-8   76110FLB7    25,998,036.00    21,668,881.59     7.500000  %    522,510.35
A-9   76110FLC5     5,000,001.00     5,000,001.00     7.375000  %          0.00
A-10  76110FLD3    54,507,000.00    54,507,000.00     7.500000  %          0.00
A-11  76110FLE1        26,409.16        26,242.98     0.000000  %         21.60
A-12  76110FLF8             0.00             0.00     0.876916  %          0.00
R     76110FLG6           100.00             0.00     7.500000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FLH4     7,631,000.00     7,591,329.49     7.500000  %      4,864.71
M-2   76110FLJ0     4,361,000.00     4,338,328.91     7.500000  %      2,780.11
M-3   76110FLK7     3,270,500.00     3,253,497.98     7.500000  %      2,084.92
B-1                 1,199,000.00     1,192,766.87     7.500000  %        764.35
B-2                   545,000.00       542,166.78     7.500000  %        347.43
B-3                   981,461.72       976,359.52     7.500000  %        625.69

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  218,029,470.88   193,601,028.38                  2,948,590.38
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1        38,378.14    861,325.94            0.00       0.00      5,758,683.80
A-2        64,124.75  1,253,336.30            0.00       0.00      9,807,815.41
A-3       108,179.23    510,611.10            0.00       0.00     12,584,049.83
A-4       114,875.81    114,875.81            0.00       0.00     19,700,543.00
A-5       127,573.50    127,573.50            0.00       0.00     21,419,142.00
A-6        38,188.76     38,188.76            0.00       0.00      6,323,320.00
A-7        99,627.01     99,627.01            0.00       0.00     16,496,308.00
A-8       135,378.63    657,888.98            0.00       0.00     21,146,371.24
A-9        30,717.40     30,717.40            0.00       0.00      5,000,001.00
A-10      340,538.25    340,538.25            0.00       0.00     54,507,000.00
A-11            0.00         21.60            0.00       0.00         26,221.38
A-12      141,422.31    141,422.31            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        47,427.64     52,292.35            0.00       0.00      7,586,464.78
M-2        27,104.17     29,884.28            0.00       0.00      4,335,548.80
M-3        20,326.57     22,411.49            0.00       0.00      3,251,413.06
B-1         7,451.93      8,216.28            0.00       0.00      1,192,002.52
B-2         3,387.24      3,734.67            0.00       0.00        541,819.35
B-3         6,099.91      6,725.60            0.00       0.00        975,733.83

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        1,350,801.25  4,299,391.63            0.00       0.00    190,652,438.00
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS8 (POOL # 4256)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4256
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    491.170203  61.414473     2.864062    64.278535   0.000000    429.755730
A-2    527.435346  57.036525     3.075528    60.112053   0.000000    470.398821
A-3    795.703733  24.657682     6.628325    31.286007   0.000000    771.046051
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     5.831099     5.831099   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     5.956051     5.956051   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.039353     6.039353   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7   1000.000000   0.000000     6.039352     6.039352   0.000000   1000.000000
A-8    833.481483  20.098070     5.207264    25.305334   0.000000    813.383412
A-9   1000.000000   0.000000     6.143479     6.143479   0.000000   1000.000000
A-10  1000.000000   0.000000     6.247606     6.247606   0.000000   1000.000000
A-11   993.707486   0.817898     0.000000     0.817898   0.000000    992.889588
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    994.801401   0.637493     6.215128     6.852621   0.000000    994.163908
M-2    994.801401   0.637494     6.215127     6.852621   0.000000    994.163907
M-3    994.801400   0.637493     6.215126     6.852619   0.000000    994.163908
B-1    994.801393   0.637490     6.215121     6.852611   0.000000    994.163903
B-2    994.801431   0.637486     6.215119     6.852605   0.000000    994.163945
B-3    994.801427   0.637488     6.215128     6.852616   0.000000    994.163921

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS8 (POOL # 4256)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4256
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       40,102.71
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                     4,734.16

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       35,058.32
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    28   3,152,803.66

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    1     139,878.53

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             7
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      1,317,172.13

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     190,652,438.00

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,702

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    2,824,522.49

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         90.75579520 %     7.84356100 %    1.40064380 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            90.61882320 %     7.95868482 %    1.42139720 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         220,247.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            6,459,120.27
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   2,180,295.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.70373868
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              346.63

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                87.44342553


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS9 (POOL # 4263)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4263
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FLL5    53,750,000.00    35,444,191.31     6.750000  %  5,131,478.59
A-2   76110FLM3    17,420,000.00    17,420,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-3   76110FLN1    22,971,538.00    19,643,209.23    10.000000  %    932,996.09
A-4   76110FLP6    38,010,000.00    38,010,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FLQ4    17,163,462.00    17,163,462.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FLR2    29,977,000.00    29,977,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-7   76110FLS0    16,065,000.00    16,065,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-8   76110FLT8    54,645,000.00    54,645,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-9   76110FLU5             0.00             0.00     0.992341  %          0.00
R     76110FLV3           100.00             0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FLW1     8,130,000.00     8,092,264.50     7.250000  %      5,252.05
M-2   76110FLX9     5,420,000.00     5,394,843.00     7.250000  %      3,501.37
M-3   76110FLY2     4,065,000.00     4,046,132.25     7.250000  %      2,626.03
B-1                 1,490,500.00     1,483,581.81     7.250000  %        962.88
B-2                   677,500.00       674,355.37     7.250000  %        437.67
B-3                 1,219,925.82     1,214,263.51     7.250000  %        788.08

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  271,005,025.82   249,273,302.98                  6,078,042.76
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       199,265.79  5,330,744.38            0.00       0.00     30,312,712.72
A-2        97,934.53     97,934.53            0.00       0.00     17,420,000.00
A-3       163,604.91  1,096,601.00            0.00       0.00     18,710,213.14
A-4       213,690.66    213,690.66            0.00       0.00     38,010,000.00
A-5        96,492.28     96,492.28            0.00       0.00     17,163,462.00
A-6       181,013.13    181,013.13            0.00       0.00     29,977,000.00
A-7        97,006.91     97,006.91            0.00       0.00     16,065,000.00
A-8       329,968.39    329,968.39            0.00       0.00     54,645,000.00
A-9       206,025.29    206,025.29            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        48,864.33     54,116.38            0.00       0.00      8,087,012.45
M-2        32,576.22     36,077.59            0.00       0.00      5,391,341.63
M-3        24,432.16     27,058.19            0.00       0.00      4,043,506.22
B-1         8,958.46      9,921.34            0.00       0.00      1,482,618.93
B-2         4,072.03      4,509.70            0.00       0.00        673,917.70
B-3         7,332.21      8,120.29            0.00       0.00      1,213,475.43

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,711,237.30  7,789,280.06            0.00       0.00    243,195,260.22
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS9 (POOL # 4263)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4263
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    659.426815  95.469369     3.707271    99.176640   0.000000    563.957446
A-2   1000.000000   0.000000     5.621959     5.621959   0.000000   1000.000000
A-3    855.110756  40.615308     7.122070    47.737378   0.000000    814.495448
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     5.621959     5.621959   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     5.621959     5.621959   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.038400     6.038400   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7   1000.000000   0.000000     6.038401     6.038401   0.000000   1000.000000
A-8   1000.000000   0.000000     6.038400     6.038400   0.000000   1000.000000
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    995.358487   0.646009     6.010373     6.656382   0.000000    994.712479
M-2    995.358487   0.646009     6.010373     6.656382   0.000000    994.712478
M-3    995.358487   0.646010     6.010371     6.656381   0.000000    994.712477
B-1    995.358477   0.646011     6.010372     6.656383   0.000000    994.712466
B-2    995.358480   0.646007     6.010376     6.656383   0.000000    994.712472
B-3    995.358480   0.646006     6.010374     6.656380   0.000000    994.712470

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS9 (POOL # 4263)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4263
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       55,730.28
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       26,946.77
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    29   3,050,892.73

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    5     261,976.63

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1      35,104.90


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             4
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        281,988.13

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     243,195,260.22

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,296

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    5,916,259.04

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         91.61344590 %     7.03374100 %    1.35281260 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            91.40942450 %     7.20485271 %    1.38572280 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         153,458.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            8,130,151.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   2,710,050.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.59412208
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              347.56

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                89.73828418


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
       MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS10 (POOL # 4264)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4264
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   7611OFMN0   199,969,492.00   178,636,753.25     7.250000  %  7,177,168.03
A-2   76110FMP5    10,000,000.00    10,000,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-3   7611OFMQ3    25,143,000.00    25,143,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-4   7611OFMR1    64,916,508.00    64,599,241.96     7.250000  %     42,056.00
A-5   7611OFMS9        76,250.57        75,866.17     0.000000  %         65.59
A-6   7611OFMT7             0.00             0.00     0.945577  %          0.00
R     7611OFMU4           100.00             0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
M-1   7611OFMV2    10,602,000.00    10,550,196.51     7.250000  %      6,868.49
M-2   7611OFMW0     6,524,000.00     6,492,122.43     7.250000  %      4,226.56
M-3   7611OFMX8     4,893,000.00     4,869,091.81     7.250000  %      3,169.92
B-1   7611OFMY6     1,794,000.00     1,785,234.15     7.250000  %      1,162.24
B-2   7611OFMZ3       816,000.00       812,012.86     7.250000  %        528.64
B-3   7611OFNA7     1,468,094.11     1,460,920.74     7.250000  %        951.11

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  326,202,444.68   304,424,439.88                  7,236,196.58
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     1,078,541.16  8,255,709.19            0.00       0.00    171,459,585.22
A-2        60,376.22     60,376.22            0.00       0.00     10,000,000.00
A-3       151,803.93    151,803.93            0.00       0.00     25,143,000.00
A-4       390,025.79    432,081.79            0.00       0.00     64,557,185.96
A-5             0.00         65.59            0.00       0.00         75,800.58
A-6       239,720.03    239,720.03            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        63,698.10     70,566.59            0.00       0.00     10,543,328.02
M-2        39,196.98     43,423.54            0.00       0.00      6,487,895.87
M-3        29,397.74     32,567.66            0.00       0.00      4,865,921.89
B-1        10,778.57     11,940.81            0.00       0.00      1,784,071.91
B-2         4,902.63      5,431.27            0.00       0.00        811,484.22
B-3         8,820.49      9,771.60            0.00       0.00      1,459,969.63

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,077,261.64  9,313,458.22            0.00       0.00    297,188,243.30
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    893.320033  35.891315     5.393529    41.284844   0.000000    857.428718
A-2   1000.000000   0.000000     6.037622     6.037622   0.000000   1000.000000
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     6.037622     6.037622   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4    995.112706   0.647848     6.008114     6.655962   0.000000    994.464859
A-5    994.958726   0.860190     0.000000     0.860190   0.000000    994.098536
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    995.113800   0.647849     6.008121     6.655970   0.000000    994.465952
M-2    995.113800   0.647848     6.008121     6.655969   0.000000    994.465952
M-3    995.113797   0.647848     6.008122     6.655970   0.000000    994.465949
B-1    995.113796   0.647848     6.008122     6.655970   0.000000    994.465948
B-2    995.113799   0.647843     6.008125     6.655968   0.000000    994.465956
B-3    995.113821   0.647847     6.008123     6.655970   0.000000    994.465968

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS10 (POOL # 4264)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4264
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       62,830.30
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       50,277.73
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    43   5,334,660.99

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    6     385,358.51

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1      29,636.58


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             8
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        967,157.14

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     297,188,243.30

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,650

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    7,037,993.83

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         91.46715950 %     7.19944600 %    1.33339470 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            91.26503380 %     7.36810633 %    1.36498010 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         206,726.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            9,786,073.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   3,262,024.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.52111667
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              348.82

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                91.10546170


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
       MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS11 (POOL # 4265)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4265
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   7611OFLZ4    99,650,000.00    90,035,060.12     7.000000  %  1,820,972.69
A-2   7611OFMD2        43,142.76        39,547.63     0.000000  %        231.59
A-3   7611OFME0             0.00             0.00     1.000986  %          0.00
R     7611OFMF7           100.00             0.00     7.000000  %          0.00
M-1   7611OFMG5     3,043,000.00     2,987,266.36     7.000000  %      9,441.95
M-2   7611OFMH3       892,000.00       875,662.70     7.000000  %      2,767.74
M-3   7611OFMJ9       419,700.00       412,013.05     7.000000  %      1,302.26
B-1   7611OFMK6       367,000.00       360,278.26     7.000000  %      1,138.74
B-2   7611OFML4       262,400.00       257,594.04     7.000000  %        814.19
B-3   7611OFMM2       263,388.53       258,564.46     7.000000  %        817.26

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  104,940,731.29    95,225,986.62                  1,837,486.42
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       524,202.84  2,345,175.53            0.00       0.00     88,214,087.43
A-2             0.00        231.59            0.00       0.00         39,316.04
A-3        79,281.77     79,281.77            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        17,392.49     26,834.44            0.00       0.00      2,977,824.41
M-2         5,098.29      7,866.03            0.00       0.00        872,894.96
M-3         2,398.83      3,701.09            0.00       0.00        410,710.79
B-1         2,097.61      3,236.35            0.00       0.00        359,139.52
B-2         1,499.76      2,313.95            0.00       0.00        256,779.85
B-3         1,505.41      2,322.67            0.00       0.00        257,747.20

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          633,477.00  2,470,963.42            0.00       0.00     93,388,500.20
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    903.512896  18.273685     5.260440    23.534125   0.000000    885.239212
A-2    916.668985   5.367992     0.000000     5.367992   0.000000    911.300992
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    981.684640   3.102843     5.715573     8.818416   0.000000    978.581798
M-2    981.684641   3.102848     5.715572     8.818420   0.000000    978.581794
M-3    981.684656   3.102835     5.715583     8.818418   0.000000    978.581820
B-1    981.684632   3.102834     5.715559     8.818393   0.000000    978.581798
B-2    981.684604   3.102858     5.715549     8.818407   0.000000    978.581745
B-3    981.684586   3.102831     5.715549     8.818380   0.000000    978.581717

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS11 (POOL # 4265)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4265
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       19,706.74
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                     2,737.49

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        6,360.23
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                     9     637,583.29

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    0           0.00

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             0
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                              0.00

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                      93,388,500.20

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,048

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    1,536,422.28

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         94.58811680 %     4.49112500 %    0.92075800 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            94.49904490 %     4.56312089 %    0.93591240 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         100,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            2,098,815.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,961,157.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.32322819
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              167.27

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                88.99166134


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
       MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS12 (POOL # 4270)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4270
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FNB5    57,575,000.00    43,645,774.34     7.000000  %  3,959,313.06
A-2   76110FNC3    22,405,757.00    20,415,867.62     9.000000  %    565,616.15
A-3   76110FND1    62,824,125.00    62,824,125.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FNE9    24,294,118.00    24,294,118.00     6.875000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FNF6    26,000,000.00    26,000,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FNG4    22,583,041.00    22,583,041.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-7   76110FNR0    59,318,800.00    59,132,013.07     7.250000  %     38,345.98
A-8   76110FNH2             0.00             0.00     0.896643  %          0.00
R     76110FNJ8           100.00             0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FNK5    10,433,600.00    10,400,745.99     7.250000  %      6,744.68
M-2   76110FNL3     4,471,600.00     4,457,519.54     7.250000  %      2,890.62
M-3   76110FNM1     4,471,500.00     4,457,419.84     7.250000  %      2,890.55
B-1   76110FNN9     1,639,600.00     1,634,437.12     7.250000  %      1,059.90
B-2   76110FNP4       745,200.00       742,853.46     7.250000  %        481.73
B-3   76110FNQ2     1,341,561.05     1,337,336.65     7.250000  %        867.24

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  298,104,002.05   281,925,251.63                  4,578,209.91
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       254,536.80  4,213,849.86            0.00       0.00     39,686,461.28
A-2       153,080.79    718,696.94            0.00       0.00     19,850,251.47
A-3       366,382.58    366,382.58            0.00       0.00     62,824,125.00
A-4       139,150.31    139,150.31            0.00       0.00     24,294,118.00
A-5       157,044.12    157,044.12            0.00       0.00     26,000,000.00
A-6       136,405.15    136,405.15            0.00       0.00     22,583,041.00
A-7       357,166.73    395,512.71            0.00       0.00     59,093,667.09
A-8       210,602.66    210,602.66            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        62,822.15     69,566.83            0.00       0.00     10,394,001.31
M-2        26,924.13     29,814.75            0.00       0.00      4,454,628.92
M-3        26,923.52     29,814.07            0.00       0.00      4,454,529.29
B-1         9,872.26     10,932.16            0.00       0.00      1,633,377.22
B-2         4,486.95      4,968.68            0.00       0.00        742,371.73
B-3         8,077.72      8,944.96            0.00       0.00      1,336,469.41

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,913,475.87  6,491,685.78            0.00       0.00    277,347,041.72
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    758.068160  68.767921     4.420960    73.188881   0.000000    689.300239
A-2    911.188478  25.244233     6.832208    32.076441   0.000000    885.944245
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     5.831877     5.831877   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     5.727737     5.727737   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     6.040158     6.040158   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.040159     6.040159   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7    996.851134   0.646439     6.021139     6.667578   0.000000    996.204696
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    996.851134   0.646438     6.021138     6.667576   0.000000    996.204695
M-2    996.851136   0.646440     6.021140     6.667580   0.000000    996.204696
M-3    996.851133   0.646439     6.021138     6.667577   0.000000    996.204694
B-1    996.851134   0.646438     6.021139     6.667577   0.000000    996.204696
B-2    996.851127   0.646444     6.021135     6.667579   0.000000    996.204683
B-3    996.851131   0.646441     6.021135     6.667576   0.000000    996.204691

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS12 (POOL # 4270)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4270
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       58,257.59
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                     1,546.18

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       27,960.34
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    34   3,319,441.97

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    2     233,769.64

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             2
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        237,033.25

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     277,347,041.72

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,508

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,395,386.79

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         91.83105720 %     6.85135000 %    1.31759300 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            91.70159600 %     6.95992984 %    1.33847410 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         175,592.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            5,962,080.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   2,981,040.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.47448515
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              350.02

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                93.03700716


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
       MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS13 (POOL # 4277)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4277
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FNS8    31,499,000.00    29,492,069.66     7.250000  %    521,665.37
A-2   76110FNT6    30,750,000.00    25,491,712.84     7.250000  %  1,366,796.97
A-3   76110FNU3    40,799,000.00    40,799,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FNV1     6,745,000.00     6,745,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FNW9     4,235,415.00     4,235,415.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FNX7    10,499,000.00    10,499,000.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-7   76110fNY5    62,999,000.00    62,844,865.41     7.250000  %     41,516.34
A-8   76110FNZ2    15,495,000.00    10,153,592.39     7.250000  %  1,388,402.64
A-9   76110FPA5    68,339,000.00    68,339,000.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-10  76110fPB3             0.00             0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-11  76110FPC1   100,038,312.00    95,174,572.59     0.000000  %  1,264,708.20
A-12  76110FPD9             0.00             0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-13  76110FPE7             0.00             0.00     5.125000  %          0.00
A-14  76110FPF4             0.00             0.00     9.375000  %          0.00
A-15  76110FPG2    26,249,000.00    24,576,568.67     7.000000  %    434,718.38
A-16  76110FPH0     2,386,273.00     2,234,233.77    10.000000  %     39,519.86
A-17  76110FPJ6       139,012.74       138,499.94     0.000000  %        128.68
A-18  76110FPK3             0.00             0.00     0.855512  %          0.00
R-I   76110FPL1           100.00             0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
R-II  76110FPM9           100.00             0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FPN7    16,267,000.00    16,227,200.85     7.250000  %     10,719.95
M-2   76110FPP2     5,422,000.00     5,408,734.42     7.250000  %      3,573.10
M-3   76110FPQ0     6,507,000.00     6,491,079.84     7.250000  %      4,288.11
B-1   76110FPR8     2,386,000.00     2,380,162.36     7.250000  %      1,572.37
B-2   76110FPS6     1,085,000.00     1,082,345.42     7.250000  %        715.01
B-3   76110FPT4     1,952,210.06     1,947,433.74     7.250000  %      1,286.52

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  433,792,422.80   414,260,486.90                  5,079,611.50
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       178,129.76    699,795.13            0.00       0.00     28,970,404.29
A-2       153,967.92  1,520,764.89            0.00       0.00     24,124,915.87
A-3       246,422.73    246,422.73            0.00       0.00     40,799,000.00
A-4        40,739.26     40,739.26            0.00       0.00      6,745,000.00
A-5        25,581.58     25,581.58            0.00       0.00      4,235,415.00
A-6        63,413.13     63,413.13            0.00       0.00     10,499,000.00
A-7       379,578.01    421,094.35            0.00       0.00     62,803,349.07
A-8        61,326.89  1,449,729.53            0.00       0.00      8,765,189.75
A-9       398,528.97    398,528.97            0.00       0.00     68,339,000.00
A-10       14,233.18     14,233.18            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-11            0.00  1,264,708.20            0.00       0.00     93,909,864.39
A-12      287,423.44    287,423.44            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-13      101,589.31    101,589.31            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-14      185,834.12    185,834.12            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-15      143,321.89    578,040.27            0.00       0.00     24,141,850.29
A-16       18,613.23     58,133.09            0.00       0.00      2,194,713.91
A-17            0.00        128.68            0.00       0.00        138,371.26
A-18      295,251.90    295,251.90            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-I             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-II            0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        98,011.01    108,730.96            0.00       0.00     16,216,480.90
M-2        32,668.33     36,241.43            0.00       0.00      5,405,161.32
M-3        39,205.61     43,493.72            0.00       0.00      6,486,791.73
B-1        14,375.99     15,948.36            0.00       0.00      2,378,589.99
B-2         6,537.28      7,252.29            0.00       0.00      1,081,630.41
B-3        11,762.35     13,048.87            0.00       0.00      1,946,147.22

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,796,515.89  7,876,127.39            0.00       0.00    409,180,875.40
===============================================================================





























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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
       MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1997-QS13 (POOL # 4277)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4277
____________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    936.285903  16.561331     5.655093    22.216424   0.000000    919.724572
A-2    828.998792  44.448682     5.007087    49.455769   0.000000    784.550110
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     6.039921     6.039921   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     6.039920     6.039920   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     6.039923     6.039923   0.000000   1000.000000
A-6   1000.000000   0.000000     6.039921     6.039921   0.000000   1000.000000
A-7    997.553380   0.659000     6.025143     6.684143   0.000000    996.894380
A-8    655.281858  89.603268     3.957850    93.561118   0.000000    565.678590
A-9   1000.000000   0.000000     5.831648     5.831648   0.000000   1000.000000
A-11   951.381233  12.642239     0.000000    12.642239   0.000000    938.738994
A-15   936.285903  16.561331     5.460090    22.021421   0.000000    919.724572
A-16   936.285903  16.561331     7.800126    24.361457   0.000000    919.724572
A-17   996.311129   0.925671     0.000000     0.925671   0.000000    995.385459
R-I      0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
R-II     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    997.553381   0.659000     6.025144     6.684144   0.000000    996.894381
M-2    997.553379   0.659000     6.025144     6.684144   0.000000    996.894379
M-3    997.553379   0.659000     6.025144     6.684144   0.000000    996.894380
B-1    997.553378   0.658998     6.025142     6.684140   0.000000    996.894380
B-2    997.553382   0.658995     6.025143     6.684138   0.000000    996.894387
B-3    997.553378   0.659002     6.025146     6.684148   0.000000    996.894370

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DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1997-QS13 (POOL # 4277)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4277
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       85,895.98
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       50,589.29
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    48   5,280,962.92

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    1     329,955.14

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             5
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      1,055,013.52

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     409,180,875.40

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        3,502

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,805,922.18

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         91.90167200 %     6.79196400 %    1.30636420 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            91.80652350 %     6.86943981 %    1.32171290 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         262,848.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            8,675,848.46
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   4,337,924.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.38244828
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              351.02

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                94.32642294


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS1 (POOL # 4281)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4281
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FPU1    64,326,000.00    59,151,218.37     7.000000  %  2,311,720.06
A-2   76110FPV9   117,395,000.00   111,733,839.34     7.000000  %  2,528,999.21
A-3   76110FPW7    51,380,000.00    51,380,000.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FPX5     1,862,000.00     1,862,000.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FPY3    65,040,000.00    65,040,000.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FPZ0             0.00             0.00     1.082287  %          0.00
R     76110FQB2           100.00             0.00     7.000000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FQC0    11,351,500.00    11,329,665.43     7.000000  %      7,339.87
M-2   76110FQD8     4,054,000.00     4,046,202.15     7.000000  %      2,621.31
M-3   76110FQE6     4,865,000.00     4,855,642.19     7.000000  %      3,145.71
B-1   76110FQF3     1,783,800.00     1,780,368.87     7.000000  %      1,153.40
B-2   76110FQG1       810,800.00       809,240.43     7.000000  %        524.26
B-3   76110FQH9     1,459,579.11     1,456,771.60     7.000000  %        943.78

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  324,327,779.11   313,444,948.38                  4,856,447.60
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       344,920.33  2,656,640.39            0.00       0.00     56,839,498.31
A-2       651,538.11  3,180,537.32            0.00       0.00    109,204,840.13
A-3       299,605.10    299,605.10            0.00       0.00     51,380,000.00
A-4        10,857.63     10,857.63            0.00       0.00      1,862,000.00
A-5       379,258.77    379,258.77            0.00       0.00     65,040,000.00
A-6       282,592.69    282,592.69            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        66,065.12     73,404.99            0.00       0.00     11,322,325.56
M-2        23,594.06     26,215.37            0.00       0.00      4,043,580.84
M-3        28,314.04     31,459.75            0.00       0.00      4,852,496.48
B-1        10,381.62     11,535.02            0.00       0.00      1,779,215.47
B-2         4,718.81      5,243.07            0.00       0.00        808,716.17
B-3         8,494.67      9,438.45            0.00       0.00      1,455,827.82

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,110,340.95  6,966,788.55            0.00       0.00    308,588,500.78
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    919.553810  35.937569     5.362067    41.299636   0.000000    883.616241
A-2    951.776816  21.542648     5.549965    27.092613   0.000000    930.234168
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     5.831162     5.831162   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     5.831165     5.831165   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     5.831162     5.831162   0.000000   1000.000000
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    998.076504   0.646599     5.819946     6.466545   0.000000    997.429904
M-2    998.076505   0.646598     5.819946     6.466544   0.000000    997.429906
M-3    998.076504   0.646600     5.819947     6.466547   0.000000    997.429903
B-1    998.076505   0.646597     5.819946     6.466543   0.000000    997.429908
B-2    998.076505   0.646596     5.819943     6.466539   0.000000    997.429909
B-3    998.076493   0.646597     5.819945     6.466542   0.000000    997.429882

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS1 (POOL # 4281)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4281
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       64,985.25
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       41,827.01
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    35   4,468,826.42

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    6     535,749.39

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1      99,937.85


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             4
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        337,381.21

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     308,588,500.78

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,604

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,653,383.74

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         92.25449610 %     6.45456600 %    1.29093830 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            92.13769720 %     6.55189770 %    1.31040510 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         218,111.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            6,486,556.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   3,243,278.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.36170057
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              351.91

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                95.14710754


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS2 (POOL # 4284)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4284
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FQJ5    20,000,000.00    19,341,166.51     6.750000  %    456,956.77
A-2   76110FQK2   158,282,400.00   153,068,312.66     6.500000  %  3,616,410.68
A-3   76110FQLO    82,584,000.00    82,584,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FQM8    38,888,850.00    37,862,828.84     6.256250  %    711,632.48
A-5   76110FQN6             0.00             0.00     2.769525  %          0.00
A-6   76110FQP1    13,504,750.00    13,144,895.14     6.156250  %    249,589.79
A-7   76110FQQ9    86,753,900.00    86,753,900.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-8   76110FQR7       138,732.69       138,385.21     0.000000  %        188.28
A-9   76110FQS5             0.00             0.00     0.984013  %          0.00
R-I   76110FQT3           100.00             0.00     7.000000  %          0.00
R-II  76110FQU0           100.00             0.00     7.000000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FQV8    17,350,800.00    17,328,302.05     7.000000  %     11,382.34
M-2   76110FQW6     5,422,000.00     5,414,969.56     7.000000  %      3,556.90
M-3   76110FQX4     5,422,000.00     5,414,969.56     7.000000  %      3,556.90
B-1   76110FQY2     2,385,700.00     2,382,606.58     7.000000  %      1,565.05
B-2   76110FQZ9     1,084,400.00     1,082,993.92     7.000000  %        711.38
B-3   76110FRA3     1,952,351.82     1,949,820.29     7.000000  %      1,280.77

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  433,770,084.51   426,467,150.32                  5,056,831.34
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       108,774.74    565,731.51            0.00       0.00     18,884,209.74
A-2       828,972.76  4,445,383.44            0.00       0.00    149,451,901.98
A-3       464,452.49    464,452.49            0.00       0.00     82,584,000.00
A-4       197,364.38    908,996.86            0.00       0.00     37,151,196.36
A-5       117,701.73    117,701.73            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-6        67,424.07    317,013.86            0.00       0.00     12,895,305.35
A-7       505,974.53    505,974.53            0.00       0.00     86,753,900.00
A-8             0.00        188.28            0.00       0.00        138,196.93
A-9       349,645.44    349,645.44            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-I             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-II            0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1       101,063.81    112,446.15            0.00       0.00     17,316,919.71
M-2        31,581.71     35,138.61            0.00       0.00      5,411,412.66
M-3        31,581.71     35,138.61            0.00       0.00      5,411,412.66
B-1        13,896.07     15,461.12            0.00       0.00      2,381,041.53
B-2         6,316.34      7,027.72            0.00       0.00      1,082,282.54
B-3        11,371.93     12,652.70            0.00       0.00      1,948,539.52

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,836,121.71  7,892,953.05            0.00       0.00    421,410,318.98
===============================================================================















































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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS2 (POOL # 4284)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4284
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    967.058326  22.847838     5.438737    28.286575   0.000000    944.210487
A-2    967.058325  22.847838     5.237302    28.085140   0.000000    944.210487
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     5.624001     5.624001   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4    973.616572  18.299139     5.075089    23.374228   0.000000    955.317433
A-6    973.353460  18.481629     4.992619    23.474248   0.000000    954.871831
A-7   1000.000000   0.000000     5.832297     5.832297   0.000000   1000.000000
A-8    997.495327   1.357142     0.000000     1.357142   0.000000    996.138185
R-I      0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
R-II     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    998.703348   0.656012     5.824735     6.480747   0.000000    998.047336
M-2    998.703349   0.656013     5.824734     6.480747   0.000000    998.047337
M-3    998.703349   0.656013     5.824734     6.480747   0.000000    998.047337
B-1    998.703349   0.656013     5.824735     6.480748   0.000000    998.047336
B-2    998.703357   0.656013     5.824733     6.480746   0.000000    998.047344
B-3    998.703343   0.656014     5.824734     6.480748   0.000000    998.047329

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS2 (POOL # 4284)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4284
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       88,367.19
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       91,794.41
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    92  10,650,082.80

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                   10   1,599,003.30

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             1
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                         92,150.00

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     421,410,318.99

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        3,485

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,776,649.91

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         92.12493630 %     6.60481900 %    1.27024520 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            92.03564470 %     6.67751684 %    1.28464790 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         234,815.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            8,675,402.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   4,337,701.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.25987706
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              354.19

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                97.15061827


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS3 (POOL # 4285)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4285
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FRB1   115,517,963.00   113,785,810.51     6.500000  %    844,633.08
A-2   76110FRC9    34,880,737.00    31,056,468.59     6.500000  %    161,876.77
A-3   76110FRD7             0.00             0.00     1.211200  %          0.00
R     76110FRE5           100.00             0.00     6.500000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FRF2     3,927,000.00     3,903,485.45     6.500000  %     12,040.08
M-2   76110FRG0       785,100.00       780,398.89     6.500000  %      2,407.10
M-3   76110FRH8       707,000.00       702,766.54     6.500000  %      2,167.64
B-1   76110FRJ4       471,200.00       468,378.49     6.500000  %      1,444.69
B-2   76110FRK1       314,000.00       312,119.80     6.500000  %        962.72
B-3   76110FRL9       471,435.62       468,612.70     6.500000  %      1,445.40

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  157,074,535.62   151,478,040.97                  1,026,977.48
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       615,855.14  1,460,488.22            0.00       0.00    112,941,177.43
A-2       168,090.25    329,967.02            0.00       0.00     30,894,591.82
A-3       152,768.60    152,768.60            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        21,127.25     33,167.33            0.00       0.00      3,891,445.37
M-2         4,223.84      6,630.94            0.00       0.00        777,991.79
M-3         3,803.66      5,971.30            0.00       0.00        700,598.90
B-1         2,535.05      3,979.74            0.00       0.00        466,933.80
B-2         1,689.32      2,652.04            0.00       0.00        311,157.08
B-3         2,536.32      3,981.72            0.00       0.00        467,167.30

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          972,629.43  1,999,606.91            0.00       0.00    150,451,063.49
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1    985.005341   7.311703     5.331250    12.642953   0.000000    977.693637
A-2    890.361594   4.640864     4.818999     9.459863   0.000000    885.720730
R        0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    994.012083   3.065974     5.379997     8.445971   0.000000    990.946109
M-2    994.012088   3.065979     5.380003     8.445982   0.000000    990.946109
M-3    994.012079   3.065969     5.380000     8.445969   0.000000    990.946110
B-1    994.012076   3.065980     5.379987     8.445967   0.000000    990.946095
B-2    994.012102   3.065987     5.380000     8.445987   0.000000    990.946115
B-3    994.012077   3.065954     5.379992     8.445946   0.000000    990.946123

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DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS3 (POOL # 4285)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4285
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       31,596.34
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                     3,384.17

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       15,150.16
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    14   1,212,364.67

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    3     132,338.04

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             1
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        360,926.42

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     150,451,063.49

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,556

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                      559,752.10

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         95.61932420 %     3.55606100 %    0.82461520 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            95.60302590 %     3.56929086 %    0.82768320 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                       1,000,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            1,570,745.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,570,745.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          7.99147400
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              172.34

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                95.78322985


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS4 (POOL # 4290)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4290
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-  76110FRM7   135,006,400.00   133,473,122.57     6.500000  %  2,708,609.35
A-I-  76110FRN5    59,732,445.00    59,732,445.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FRP0    41,218,155.00    40,834,835.64     6.093750  %    677,152.34
A-I-  76110FRQ8             0.00             0.00     2.906250  %          0.00
A-I-  76110FRR6    64,868,000.00    64,868,000.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-II  76110FRS4    75,203,000.00    75,138,505.07     7.000000  %    661,876.93
A-V   76110FRU9             0.00             0.00     0.868944  %          0.00
R-I   76110FRV7           100.00             0.00     7.000000  %          0.00
R-II  76110FRW5           100.00             0.00     7.000000  %          0.00
M-1   76110FRX3    14,190,000.00    14,180,652.53     7.000000  %      9,469.10
M-2   76110FRY1     5,067,800.00     5,064,461.66     7.000000  %      3,381.78
M-3   76110FRZ8     5,067,800.00     5,064,461.66     7.000000  %      3,381.78
B-1   76110FSA2     2,230,000.00     2,228,531.02     7.000000  %      1,488.10
B-2   76110FSB0     1,216,400.00     1,215,598.71     7.000000  %        811.71
B-3   76110FSC8     1,621,792.30     1,620,723.97     7.000000  %      1,082.24

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  405,421,992.30   403,421,337.83                  4,067,253.33
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-1     722,751.06  3,431,360.41            0.00       0.00    130,764,513.22
A-I-2     335,888.88    335,888.88            0.00       0.00     59,732,445.00
A-I-3     207,298.90    884,451.24            0.00       0.00     40,157,683.30
A-I-4      98,865.63     98,865.63            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-5     378,277.15    378,277.15            0.00       0.00     64,868,000.00
A-II      438,169.51  1,100,046.44            0.00       0.00     74,476,628.14
A-V       292,033.31    292,033.31            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-I             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-II            0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        82,694.34     92,163.44            0.00       0.00     14,171,183.43
M-2        29,533.36     32,915.14            0.00       0.00      5,061,079.88
M-3        29,533.36     32,915.14            0.00       0.00      5,061,079.88
B-1        12,995.65     14,483.75            0.00       0.00      2,227,042.92
B-2         7,088.75      7,900.46            0.00       0.00      1,214,787.00
B-3         9,451.23     10,533.47            0.00       0.00      1,619,641.72

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,644,581.13  6,711,834.46            0.00       0.00    399,354,084.49
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-   988.642928  20.062822     5.353458    25.416280   0.000000    968.580106
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     5.623223     5.623223   0.000000   1000.000000
A-I-   990.700230  16.428497     5.029311    21.457808   0.000000    974.271733
A-I-  1000.000000   0.000000     5.831491     5.831491   0.000000   1000.000000
A-II   999.142389   8.801204     5.826490    14.627694   0.000000    990.341185
R-I      0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
R-II     0.000000   0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1    999.341264   0.667308     5.827649     6.494957   0.000000    998.673956
M-2    999.341264   0.667307     5.827649     6.494956   0.000000    998.673957
M-3    999.341264   0.667307     5.827649     6.494956   0.000000    998.673957
B-1    999.341265   0.667309     5.827646     6.494955   0.000000    998.673955
B-2    999.341261   0.667305     5.827647     6.494952   0.000000    998.673956
B-3    999.341266   0.667311     5.827645     6.494956   0.000000    998.673949

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DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
     MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS4 (POOL # 4290)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4290
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       83,652.61
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                    15,758.64

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      108,271.61
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                   109  14,324,352.81

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    5     399,247.78

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             0
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                              0.00

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     399,354,084.49

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        3,336

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    3,797,873.85

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         92.71867230 %     6.02585300 %    1.25547490 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            92.64942670 %     6.08315881 %    1.26741450 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         230,361.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            8,108,440.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   4,054,220.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.19652500
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              354.97

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                98.50331064


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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS5 (POOL # 4299)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4299
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   76110FSD6   151,551,000.00   151,551,000.00     6.750000  %    816,809.00
A-2   76110FSE4    75,936,500.00    75,936,500.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-3   76110FSF1    17,485,800.00    17,485,800.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-4   76110FSG9    13,164,700.00    13,164,700.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-5   76110FSH7    67,790,000.00    67,790,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-6   76110FSJ3             0.00             0.00     1.111689  %          0.00
R     76110FSK0           100.00           100.00     6.750000  %        100.00
M-1   76110FSL8    12,650,700.00    12,650,700.00     6.750000  %      8,475.38
M-2   76110FSM6     4,216,900.00     4,216,900.00     6.750000  %      2,825.13
M-3   76110FSN4     4,392,600.00     4,392,600.00     6.750000  %      2,942.84
B-1   76110FSP6     1,757,100.00     1,757,100.00     6.750000  %      1,177.18
B-2   76110FSQ7     1,054,300.00     1,054,300.00     6.750000  %        706.33
B-3   76110FSR5     1,405,623.28     1,405,623.28     6.750000  %        941.70

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  351,405,323.28   351,405,323.28                    833,977.56
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       852,376.39  1,669,185.39            0.00       0.00    150,734,191.00
A-2       427,093.71    427,093.71            0.00       0.00     75,936,500.00
A-3        98,346.32     98,346.32            0.00       0.00     17,485,800.00
A-4        74,042.93     74,042.93            0.00       0.00     13,164,700.00
A-5       381,274.92    381,274.92            0.00       0.00     67,790,000.00
A-6       325,507.11    325,507.11            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.56        100.56            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        71,152.01     79,627.39            0.00       0.00     12,642,224.62
M-2        23,717.33     26,542.46            0.00       0.00      4,214,074.87
M-3        24,705.54     27,648.38            0.00       0.00      4,389,657.16
B-1         9,882.55     11,059.73            0.00       0.00      1,755,922.82
B-2         5,929.76      6,636.09            0.00       0.00      1,053,593.67
B-3         7,905.72      8,847.42            0.00       0.00      1,404,681.58

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,301,934.85  3,135,912.41            0.00       0.00    350,571,345.72
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1   1000.000000   5.389664     5.624353    11.014017   0.000000    994.610336
A-2   1000.000000   0.000000     5.624353     5.624353   0.000000   1000.000000
A-3   1000.000000   0.000000     5.624353     5.624353   0.000000   1000.000000
A-4   1000.000000   0.000000     5.624354     5.624354   0.000000   1000.000000
A-5   1000.000000   0.000000     5.624353     5.624353   0.000000   1000.000000
R     1000.000000 1000.00000     5.600000  1005.600000   0.000000      0.000000
M-1   1000.000000   0.669953     5.624354     6.294307   0.000000    999.330047
M-2   1000.000000   0.669954     5.624352     6.294306   0.000000    999.330046
M-3   1000.000000   0.669954     5.624355     6.294309   0.000000    999.330046
B-1   1000.000000   0.669956     5.624353     6.294309   0.000000    999.330044
B-2   1000.000000   0.669952     5.624357     6.294309   0.000000    999.330048
B-3   1000.000000   0.669952     5.624352     6.294304   0.000000    999.330048

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-May-98
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-May-98

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS5 (POOL # 4299)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4299
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       73,207.81
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       35,306.17
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    40   4,800,028.21

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    0           0.00

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             0
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                              0.00

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     350,571,345.72

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,796

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       0

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                       0.00

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

CLASS A SHORTFALL (PRINCIPAL)                                              0.00
CLASS A SHORTFALL (INTEREST)                                               0.00

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                      598,552.25

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         92.74990400 %     6.05005100 %    1.20004540 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            92.73752550 %     6.06038026 %    1.20209430 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         249,990.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            7,028,106.00
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   3,514,053.00

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.11147962
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              356.90

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                99.76267361

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