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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)
                               October 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
                                 333-63549
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 October  1998  distribution  to holders of the  following  series of Conduit
Mortgage Pass-Through


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Certificates.


Master Serviced by Residential Funding Corporation

1995-QS1  RALI  1996-QS1 RALI 1996-QS2 RALI 1996-QS3 RALI 1996-QS4 RALI 1996-QS5
RALI  1996-QS7  RALI  1996-QS8  RALI  1997-QS1  RALI 1997-QS2 RALI 1997-QS3 RALI
1997-QS4  RALI  1997-QS5 RALI 1997-QS6 RALI 1997-QS7 RALI 1997-QS8 RALI 1997-QS9
RALI  1997-QS10  RALI 1997-QS11 RALI 1997-QS12 RALI 1997-QS13 RALI 1998-QS1 RALI
1998-QS2  RALI  1998-QS3GR1  RALI  1998-QS4  RALI  1998-QS5  RALI  1998-QS6 RALI
1998-QS8  RALI  1998-QS7  RALI  1998-QS10  RALI  1998-QS11  RALI  1998-QS9  RALI
1998-QS12 RALI 30 YR FIXED RALI ->

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



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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: October 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: /s/Davee Olson
 Name:  Davee Olson
Title:  Chief Financial Officer
Dated: October 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      32,380.72     6.900000  %     32,380.72
A-3     76110FAC7    22,250,000.00  22,250,000.00     7.300000  %  4,423,547.40
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   2,303,786.52     0.000000  %          0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  258,459,514.42   123,795,167.24                  4,455,928.12
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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           186.19     32,566.91            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-3       135,354.17  4,558,901.57            0.00       0.00     17,826,452.60
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          72,808.88     72,808.88            0.00       0.00      2,228,313.01

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          828,405.49  5,284,333.61            0.00       0.00    119,263,765.61
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



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       0.392494    0.392494     0.002257     0.394751   0.000000    0.000000
A-3    1000.000000  198.811119     6.083333   204.894452   0.000000  801.188881
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-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       25,083.70
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                       291.72

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       65,890.50
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    5,591.39


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    29   3,938,920.64

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    6     441,521.28

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          2     146,162.97


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            23
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      3,261,891.62

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     119,263,765.61

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,405

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       7

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                 674,271.50

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    3,916,130.19

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                               SENIOR          SUBORDINATE
PERCENTAGE FOR CURRENT DISTRIBUTION          98.13903360 %     1.86096640 %
CURRENT PREPAYMENT PERCENTAGE               100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %
PERCENTAGE FOR NEXT DISTRIBUTION             98.13160940 %     1.86839060 %

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

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          9.33001000
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              290.12

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                46.14408020

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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-1   76110FAG8    52,015,000.00           0.00     6.000000  %          0.00
A-I-2   76110FAH6    67,186,000.00   5,067,164.43     6.250000  %  4,568,819.38
A-I-3   76110FAJ2    22,562,000.00  22,562,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-I-4   76110FAK9    31,852,000.00  31,852,000.00     6.900000  %          0.00
A-I-5   76110FAL7    14,535,000.00  14,535,000.00     7.050000  %          0.00
A-I-6   76110FAM5    18,417,136.00  18,417,136.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-I-7   76110FAN3    20,000,000.00  20,000,000.00     6.700000  %          0.00
A-II    76110FAQ6    29,374,968.00  11,662,318.86     5.952721  %    798,441.78
R                             0.53   1,920,840.08     0.000000  %          0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  255,942,104.53   126,016,459.37                  5,367,261.16
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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      26,391.48  4,595,210.86            0.00       0.00        498,345.05
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       60,037.87    858,479.65            0.00       0.00     10,863,877.08
R          21,167.47     21,167.47       69,181.49       0.00      1,990,021.57

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          725,987.07  6,093,248.23       69,181.49       0.00    120,718,379.70
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-2    75.419945   68.002551     0.392812    68.395363   0.000000    7.417394
A-I-3  1000.000000    0.000000     5.625000     5.625000   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-4  1000.000000    0.000000     5.750000     5.750000   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-5  1000.000000    0.000000     5.875000     5.875000   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-6  1000.000000    0.000000     6.041667     6.041667   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-7  1000.000000    0.000000     5.583334     5.583334   0.000000 1000.000000
A-II    397.015543   27.181026     2.043845    29.224871   0.000000  369.834516

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       26,315.54
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       68,043.05
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                   15,337.35


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    32   4,770,370.00

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    6     446,013.80

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          4     465,235.25


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            13
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      2,938,717.42

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     120,718,379.70

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,127

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       8

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS               1,906,215.98

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,784,730.87

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                      208,204.14

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                               SENIOR          SUBORDINATE
PERCENTAGE FOR CURRENT DISTRIBUTION          98.47572290 %     1.52427710 %
CURRENT PREPAYMENT PERCENTAGE               100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %
PERCENTAGE FOR NEXT DISTRIBUTION             98.35151730 %     1.64848270 %

      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                          8.95954500
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              299.67

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                47.16628392

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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           0.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-3     76110FAU7    28,500,000.00  12,151,398.41     7.050000  %  3,501,669.45
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     131,359.00     0.000000  %        159.22
R                             0.00   1,786,266.97     0.000000  %          0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  181,911,418.00   111,302,435.38                  3,501,828.67
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-3        71,389.47  3,573,058.92            0.00       0.00      8,649,728.96
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        159.22            0.00       0.00        131,199.78
R          73,313.81     73,313.81       32,847.21       0.00      1,819,114.18

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          739,203.76  4,241,032.43       32,847.21       0.00    107,833,453.92
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



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       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-3     426.364856  122.865595     2.504894   125.370489   0.000000  303.499262
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    737.942890    0.894459     0.000000     0.894459   0.000000  737.048431

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       22,927.43
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       58,504.49
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    3,310.35


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    28   2,727,999.27

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    5     465,728.80

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          6   1,157,120.93


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            13
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      3,021,861.82

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     107,833,453.92

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,116

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                 420,203.03

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    3,350,549.01

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                               SENIOR          SUBORDINATE
PERCENTAGE FOR CURRENT DISTRIBUTION          98.39512320 %     1.60487680 %
CURRENT PREPAYMENT PERCENTAGE               100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %
PERCENTAGE FOR NEXT DISTRIBUTION             98.31303360 %     1.68696640 %

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

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.78933413
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              305.52

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                59.27800196

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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-1   76110FBC6    42,855,000.00           0.00     6.780000  %          0.00
A-I-2   76110FBD4    26,000,000.00           0.00     7.150000  %          0.00
A-I-3   76110FBE2    10,596,000.00   2,631,122.70     7.290000  %  1,044,201.97
A-I-4   76110FBF9    25,000,000.00   4,670,267.62     7.250000  %  1,853,468.35
A-I-5   76110FBG7    18,587,000.00  18,587,000.00     7.460000  %          0.00
A-I-6   76110FBH5    21,696,000.00  21,696,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-I-7   76110FBJ1     8,047,000.00   8,047,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-I-8   76110FBK8    17,436,000.00  17,436,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-I-9   76110FBL6    25,145,000.00  25,145,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-I-10  76110FBM4    19,000,000.00  19,000,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-I-11  76110FBN2    15,875,562.00  15,875,562.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-II    76110FBP7    20,551,438.00  13,999,122.74     7.750000  %  1,054,248.97
A-P     76110FBQ5     1,166,695.86     934,418.26     0.000000  %     11,315.59
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  12,193,808.19     7.750000  %     12,385.80
M-2     76110FBU6     5,568,000.00   5,419,254.00     7.750000  %      5,504.58
M-3     76110FBV4     4,176,000.00   4,064,440.51     7.750000  %      4,128.44
B-1                   1,809,600.00   1,761,257.54     7.750000  %      1,788.99
B-2                     696,000.00     677,406.74     7.750000  %        688.07
B-3                   1,670,738.96   1,486,139.58     7.750000  %      1,509.54
A-V                           0.00           0.00     0.694439  %          0.00
STRIP   76110FHY2             0.00           0.00     0.000000  %          0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  278,404,734.82   173,623,799.88                  3,989,240.30
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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           0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-3      15,978.45  1,060,180.42            0.00       0.00      1,586,920.73
A-I-4      28,206.28  1,881,674.63            0.00       0.00      2,816,799.27
A-I-5     115,508.56    115,508.56            0.00       0.00     18,587,000.00
A-I-6     140,070.74    140,070.74            0.00       0.00     21,696,000.00
A-I-7      51,951.94     51,951.94            0.00       0.00      8,047,000.00
A-I-8     112,567.91    112,567.91            0.00       0.00     17,436,000.00
A-I-9     162,337.70    162,337.70            0.00       0.00     25,145,000.00
A-I-10    122,665.19    122,665.19            0.00       0.00     19,000,000.00
A-I-11    102,493.62    102,493.62            0.00       0.00     15,875,562.00
A-II       90,379.21  1,144,628.18            0.00       0.00     12,944,873.77
A-P             0.00     11,315.59            0.00       0.00        923,102.67
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        78,723.99     91,109.79            0.00       0.00     12,181,422.39
M-2        34,987.05     40,491.63            0.00       0.00      5,413,749.42
M-3        26,240.28     30,368.72            0.00       0.00      4,060,312.07
B-1        11,370.79     13,159.78            0.00       0.00      1,759,468.55
B-2         4,373.38      5,061.45            0.00       0.00        676,718.67
B-3         9,594.61     11,104.15            0.00       0.00      1,484,630.04
A-V       100,440.55    100,440.55            0.00       0.00              0.00
STRIP       7,443.78      7,443.78            0.00       0.00              0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,215,334.03  5,204,574.33            0.00       0.00    169,634,559.58
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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-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-3   248.312826   98.546807     1.507970   100.054777   0.000000  149.766018
A-I-4   186.810705   74.138734     1.128251    75.266985   0.000000  112.671971
A-I-5  1000.000000    0.000000     6.214481     6.214481   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-6  1000.000000    0.000000     6.456063     6.456063   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-7  1000.000000    0.000000     6.456063     6.456063   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-8  1000.000000    0.000000     6.456063     6.456063   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-9  1000.000000    0.000000     6.456063     6.456063   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-10 1000.000000    0.000000     6.456063     6.456063   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-11 1000.000000    0.000000     6.456062     6.456062   0.000000 1000.000000
A-II    681.174852   51.298063     4.397707    55.695770   0.000000  629.876789
A-P     800.909896    9.698838     0.000000     9.698838   0.000000  791.211058
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     973.285564    0.988610     6.283593     7.272203   0.000000  972.296954
M-2     973.285560    0.988610     6.283594     7.272204   0.000000  972.296950
M-3     973.285563    0.988611     6.283592     7.272203   0.000000  972.296952
B-1     973.285555    0.988611     6.283593     7.272204   0.000000  972.296944
B-2     973.285546    0.988606     6.283592     7.272198   0.000000  972.296940
B-3     889.510340    0.903516     5.742734     6.646250   0.000000  888.606826
A-V       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
STRIP     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       36,051.44
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       49,598.75
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      438.03


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    33   3,549,057.12

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    5     252,014.11

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            21
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      2,385,356.40

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     169,634,559.58

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,691

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                  52,089.98

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    3,804,470.05

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         84.71596360 %    12.48532900 %    2.26052180 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT           89.51977360 %     0.00000000 %   10.48022640 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            84.84021080 %    12.76596227 %    2.32397810 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         164,142.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            1,819,704.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,939,378.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.73508200
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              305.95

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                60.93091760

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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-1   76110FBW2    45,914,000.00           0.00     6.850000  %          0.00
A-I-2   76110FBX0    26,945,000.00   3,890,296.22    11.000000  %    758,637.23
A-I-3   76110FBY8    15,646,000.00           0.00     7.300000  %          0.00
A-I-4   76110FBZ5    32,740,000.00  17,328,718.78     7.500000  %  4,551,545.34
A-I-5   76110FCA9    10,023,000.00  10,023,000.00     7.700000  %          0.00
A-I-6   76110FCB7    26,811,000.00  26,811,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-7   76110FCC5    18,046,000.00  18,046,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-8   76110FCD3     9,094,000.00   9,094,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-9   76110FCE1    10,284,000.00  10,284,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-10  76110FCF8    27,538,000.00  27,538,000.00     7.900000  %          0.00
A-II-1  76110FCG6    16,021,000.00   6,480,145.97     7.250000  %    239,562.30
A-II-2  76110FCH4     8,580,000.00   8,580,000.00     7.650000  %          0.00
A-P     76110FCJ0     3,039,637.99   2,228,000.19     0.000000  %     78,223.13
A-V-1                         0.00           0.00     0.945301  %          0.00
A-V-2                         0.00           0.00     0.373954  %          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  12,897,237.05     8.000000  %     14,229.78
M-2     76110FCN1     5,570,800.00   5,430,477.16     8.000000  %      5,991.56
M-3     76110FCP6     4,456,600.00   4,344,342.75     8.000000  %      4,793.20
B-1     76110FCR2     2,228,400.00   2,172,268.86     8.000000  %      2,396.71
B-2     76110FCS0       696,400.00     678,858.38     8.000000  %        749.00
B-3     76110FCT8     1,671,255.97   1,098,238.93     8.000000  %      1,211.71
STRIP                         0.00           0.00     0.143787  %          0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  278,535,793.96   166,924,584.29                  5,657,339.96
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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      35,535.80    794,173.03            0.00       0.00      3,131,658.99
A-I-3           0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-4     107,924.08  4,659,469.42            0.00       0.00     12,777,173.44
A-I-5      64,088.35     64,088.35            0.00       0.00     10,023,000.00
A-I-6     178,112.20    178,112.20            0.00       0.00     26,811,000.00
A-I-7     119,884.11    119,884.11            0.00       0.00     18,046,000.00
A-I-8      60,413.73     60,413.73            0.00       0.00      9,094,000.00
A-I-9      68,319.19     68,319.19            0.00       0.00     10,284,000.00
A-I-10    180,655.07    180,655.07            0.00       0.00     27,538,000.00
A-II-1     39,013.37    278,575.67            0.00       0.00      6,240,583.67
A-II-2     54,505.38     54,505.38            0.00       0.00      8,580,000.00
A-P             0.00     78,223.13            0.00       0.00      2,149,777.06
A-V-1      87,180.04     87,180.04            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-V-2      17,347.96     17,347.96            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        85,679.58     99,909.36            0.00       0.00     12,883,007.27
M-2        36,076.02     42,067.58            0.00       0.00      5,424,485.60
M-3        28,860.56     33,653.76            0.00       0.00      4,339,549.55
B-1        14,430.92     16,827.63            0.00       0.00      2,169,872.15
B-2         4,509.82      5,258.82            0.00       0.00        678,109.38
B-3         7,295.87      8,507.58            0.00       0.00      1,097,027.22
STRIP       8,816.65      8,816.65            0.00       0.00              0.00

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,198,648.70  6,855,988.66            0.00       0.00    161,267,244.33
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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-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-2   144.379151   28.155028     1.318827    29.473855   0.000000  116.224123
A-I-3     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-4   529.282797  139.020933     3.296398   142.317331   0.000000  390.261864
A-I-5  1000.000000    0.000000     6.394129     6.394129   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-6  1000.000000    0.000000     6.643251     6.643251   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-7  1000.000000    0.000000     6.643251     6.643251   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-8  1000.000000    0.000000     6.643252     6.643252   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-9  1000.000000    0.000000     6.643251     6.643251   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-10 1000.000000    0.000000     6.560210     6.560210   0.000000 1000.000000
A-II-1  404.478245   14.953018     2.435140    17.388158   0.000000  389.525228
A-II-2 1000.000000    0.000000     6.352608     6.352608   0.000000 1000.000000
A-P     732.982084   25.734359     0.000000    25.734359   0.000000  707.247726
A-V-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-V-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
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     974.811009    1.075529     6.475914     7.551443   0.000000  973.735480
M-2     974.811007    1.075530     6.475914     7.551444   0.000000  973.735478
M-3     974.811011    1.075528     6.475914     7.551442   0.000000  973.735482
B-1     974.811012    1.075530     6.475911     7.551441   0.000000  973.735483
B-2     974.810999    1.075531     6.475905     7.551436   0.000000  973.735468
B-3     657.133886    0.725030     4.365501     5.090531   0.000000  656.408859
STRIP     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       34,093.32
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       44,696.57
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    7,264.70


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    29   3,388,323.59

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    7     799,646.09

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          3     269,680.26


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            11
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        945,674.21

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     161,267,244.33

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,757

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                 871,713.03

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    5,466,267.70

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         82.71709140 %    13.58221600 %    2.36595840 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            83.28778630 %    14.04317567 %    2.47930590 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         205,069.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            2,211,823.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   2,211,823.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.97618500
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              298.44

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                57.89821195

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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-1   76110FCU5    23,848,000.00   2,900,013.21     9.500000  %    442,204.61
A-I-2   76110FCV3    25,000,000.00   6,050,290.56     7.600000  %    546,530.23
A-I-3   76110FCW1    12,373,000.00           0.00     6.650000  %          0.00
A-I-4   76110FCX9     7,100,000.00           0.00     7.450000  %          0.00
A-I-5   76110FCY7    10,137,000.00   2,049,563.12     7.600000  %  1,112,038.73
A-I-6   76110FCZ4     5,558,000.00   5,558,000.00     7.800000  %          0.00
A-I-7   76110FDA8    16,926,000.00  16,926,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-8   76110FDB6     6,884,000.00   6,884,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-9   76110FDC4    11,229,000.00  11,229,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-10  76110FDD2    22,501,000.00  22,501,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-II-1  76110FDE0    11,162,000.00   5,330,101.18     8.000000  %    448,142.06
A-II-2  76110FDF7     4,525,000.00   4,525,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-P     76110FDG5     1,105,878.69     864,602.35     0.000000  %      1,286.84
A-V-1                         0.00           0.00     1.017868  %          0.00
A-V-2                         0.00           0.00     0.494625  %          0.00
R       76110FDH3           100.00           0.00     8.000000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FDJ9     7,918,500.00   7,718,271.55     8.000000  %      8,438.07
M-2     76110FDK6     3,958,800.00   3,858,697.17     8.000000  %      4,218.55
M-3     76110FDL4     2,815,100.00   2,743,916.95     8.000000  %      2,999.81
B-1     76110FDM2     1,407,600.00   1,372,007.21     8.000000  %      1,499.96
B-2     76110FDN0       439,800.00     428,679.15     8.000000  %        468.66
B-3     76110FDP5     1,055,748.52     990,829.99     8.000000  %      1,083.23

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  175,944,527.21   101,929,972.44                  2,568,910.75
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-1      22,950.78    465,155.39            0.00       0.00      2,457,808.60
A-I-2      38,305.72    584,835.95            0.00       0.00      5,503,760.33
A-I-3           0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-4           0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-5      12,976.24  1,125,014.97            0.00       0.00        937,524.39
A-I-6      36,114.94     36,114.94            0.00       0.00      5,558,000.00
A-I-7     112,802.33    112,802.33            0.00       0.00     16,926,000.00
A-I-8      45,878.01     45,878.01            0.00       0.00      6,884,000.00
A-I-9      74,835.01     74,835.01            0.00       0.00     11,229,000.00
A-I-10    149,956.59    149,956.59            0.00       0.00     22,501,000.00
A-II-1     35,522.15    483,664.21            0.00       0.00      4,881,959.12
A-II-2     30,156.60     30,156.60            0.00       0.00      4,525,000.00
A-P             0.00      1,286.84            0.00       0.00        863,315.51
A-V-1      60,698.07     60,698.07            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-V-2      12,504.49     12,504.49            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        51,437.96     59,876.03            0.00       0.00      7,709,833.48
M-2        25,716.06     29,934.61            0.00       0.00      3,854,478.62
M-3        18,286.67     21,286.48            0.00       0.00      2,740,917.14
B-1         9,143.66     10,643.62            0.00       0.00      1,370,507.25
B-2         2,856.91      3,325.57            0.00       0.00        428,210.49
B-3         6,603.32      7,686.55            0.00       0.00        989,746.76

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          746,745.51  3,315,656.26            0.00       0.00     99,361,061.69
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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-1   121.604043   18.542629     0.962378    19.505007   0.000000  103.061414
A-I-2   242.011622   21.861209     1.532229    23.393438   0.000000  220.150413
A-I-3     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-4     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-5   202.186359  109.700970     1.280087   110.981057   0.000000   92.485389
A-I-6  1000.000000    0.000000     6.497830     6.497830   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-7  1000.000000    0.000000     6.664441     6.664441   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-8  1000.000000    0.000000     6.664441     6.664441   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-9  1000.000000    0.000000     6.664441     6.664441   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-10 1000.000000    0.000000     6.664441     6.664441   0.000000 1000.000000
A-II-1  477.522055   40.148903     3.182418    43.331321   0.000000  437.373152
A-II-2 1000.000000    0.000000     6.664442     6.664442   0.000000 1000.000000
A-P     781.823864    1.163639     0.000000     1.163639   0.000000  780.660224
A-V-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-V-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     974.713841    1.065615     6.495922     7.561537   0.000000  973.648226
M-2     974.713845    1.065613     6.495923     7.561536   0.000000  973.648232
M-3     974.713847    1.065614     6.495922     7.561536   0.000000  973.648233
B-1     974.713846    1.065615     6.495922     7.561537   0.000000  973.648231
B-2     974.713847    1.065621     6.495930     7.561551   0.000000  973.648227
B-3     938.509476    1.026030     6.254633     7.280663   0.000000  937.483449

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       20,832.39
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       45,342.43
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    4,922.95


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    28   2,731,204.97

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    9   1,675,675.44

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1      98,536.38


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             7
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      1,091,980.57

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                      99,361,061.69

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,080

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       6

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                 594,935.46

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    2,452,006.62

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         82.36337760 %    14.04973000 %    2.73866100 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            82.64559910 %    14.39721859 %    2.83099320 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         125,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            1,003,426.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,900,000.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          9.12514200
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              303.19

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                56.47294819

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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-1   76110FDQ3    20,106,154.00           0.00     7.050000  %          0.00
A-I-2   76110FDR1    43,322,483.00   7,159,603.73     5.927340  %    945,766.74
A-I-3   76110FDS9             0.00           0.00     3.072660  %          0.00
A-I-4   76110FDT7    13,330,948.00           0.00     7.125000  %          0.00
A-I-5   76110FDU4    24,973,716.00  11,480,080.17     7.600000  %  2,364,417.01
A-I-6   76110FDV2             0.00           0.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-7   76110FDW0     1,000,000.00   1,000,000.00     7.700000  %          0.00
A-I-8   76110FDX8     9,539,699.00   9,539,699.00     7.700000  %          0.00
A-I-9   76110FDY6    22,526,000.00  22,526,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-10  76110FDZ3    11,650,000.00  11,650,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-11  76110FEA7    30,421,000.00  30,421,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-I-12  76110FEB5     8,619,000.00   8,619,000.00     8.000000  %          0.00
A-II    76110FEC3    20,104,000.00  13,863,157.01     8.000000  %    601,625.02
A-P     76110FED1       601,147.92     419,656.51     0.000000  %      2,653.38
A-V-1                         0.00           0.00     0.887253  %          0.00
A-V-2                         0.00           0.00     0.527830  %          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   8,899,062.53     8.000000  %      9,274.83
M-2     76110FEH2     5,126,400.00   5,005,173.48     8.000000  %      5,216.52
M-3     76110FEJ8     3,645,500.00   3,559,293.03     8.000000  %      3,709.58
B-1                   1,822,700.00   1,779,597.72     8.000000  %      1,854.74
B-2                     569,600.00     556,130.40     8.000000  %        579.61
B-3                   1,366,716.75   1,270,622.63     8.000000  %      1,324.27

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  227,839,864.67   137,748,076.21                  3,936,421.70
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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      35,297.12    981,063.86            0.00       0.00      6,213,836.99
A-I-3      18,297.59     18,297.59            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-4           0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-5      72,568.64  2,436,985.65            0.00       0.00      9,115,663.16
A-I-6         494.34        494.34            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-7       6,404.44      6,404.44            0.00       0.00      1,000,000.00
A-I-8      61,096.44     61,096.44            0.00       0.00      9,539,699.00
A-I-9     149,887.21    149,887.21            0.00       0.00     22,526,000.00
A-I-10     77,518.69     77,518.69            0.00       0.00     11,650,000.00
A-I-11    202,420.26    202,420.26            0.00       0.00     30,421,000.00
A-I-12     57,350.52     57,350.52            0.00       0.00      8,619,000.00
A-II       92,244.96    693,869.98            0.00       0.00     13,261,531.99
A-P             0.00      2,653.38            0.00       0.00        417,003.13
A-V-1      78,015.94     78,015.94            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-V-2      14,062.25     14,062.25            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        59,214.04     68,488.87            0.00       0.00      8,889,787.70
M-2        33,304.24     38,520.76            0.00       0.00      4,999,956.96
M-3        23,683.41     27,392.99            0.00       0.00      3,555,583.45
B-1        11,841.38     13,696.12            0.00       0.00      1,777,742.98
B-2         3,700.48      4,280.09            0.00       0.00        555,550.79
B-3         8,454.68      9,778.95            0.00       0.00      1,269,298.34

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,005,856.63  4,942,278.33            0.00       0.00    133,811,654.49
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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-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-2   165.263005   21.830853     0.814753    22.645606   0.000000  143.432153
A-I-3     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-4     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-5   459.686503   94.676219     2.905801    97.582020   0.000000  365.010284
A-I-6     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-7  1000.000000    0.000000     6.404440     6.404440   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-8  1000.000000    0.000000     6.404441     6.404441   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-9  1000.000000    0.000000     6.653965     6.653965   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-10 1000.000000    0.000000     6.653965     6.653965   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-11 1000.000000    0.000000     6.653965     6.653965   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-12 1000.000000    0.000000     6.653964     6.653964   0.000000 1000.000000
A-II    689.572076   29.925638     4.588388    34.514026   0.000000  659.646438
A-P     698.091927    4.413862     0.000000     4.413862   0.000000  693.678065
A-V-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-V-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
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     976.352504    1.017579     6.496614     7.514193   0.000000  975.334924
M-2     976.352505    1.017580     6.496614     7.514194   0.000000  975.334925
M-3     976.352498    1.017578     6.496615     7.514193   0.000000  975.334920
B-1     976.352510    1.017578     6.496615     7.514193   0.000000  975.334932
B-2     976.352528    1.017574     6.496629     7.514203   0.000000  975.334954
B-3     929.689806    0.968943     6.186125     7.155068   0.000000  928.720852

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       28,159.71
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       44,222.02
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    2,801.60


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    40   3,980,372.92

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    3     182,125.46

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          2     243,074.21


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            10
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        983,211.07

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     133,811,654.49

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,424

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                 353,986.54

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    3,783,148.27

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         84.39939280 %    12.67787500 %    2.61807700 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            84.22131620 %    13.03722622 %    2.70070210 %

      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                          9.10864900
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              304.54

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                58.73057144

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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   1,607,271.15     7.400000  %    102,794.87
A-2     76110FEL3     4,074,824.00           0.00     7.300000  %          0.00
A-3     76110FEM1    13,128,206.00  10,328,585.85     7.050000  %    870,508.52
A-4     76110FEN9     3,765,148.00   3,765,148.00     7.300000  %          0.00
A-5     76110FEP4    10,500,000.00   3,962,992.69     7.400000  %    419,775.69
A-6     76110FEQ2     2,600,500.00   2,600,500.00     7.400000  %          0.00
A-7     76110FER0    31,579,563.00  14,886,387.43     6.027340  %    819,316.99
A-8     76110FES8             0.00           0.00     2.972660  %          0.00
A-9     76110FET6    32,965,000.00           0.00     0.000000  %          0.00
A-10    76110FEU3    20,953,719.00  19,496,832.82     7.400000  %    662,545.10
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      85,703.67     0.000000  %        124.22
A-15-1                        0.00           0.00     0.981113  %          0.00
A-15-2                        0.00           0.00     0.561958  %          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   6,433,088.46     7.750000  %      4,888.49
M-2     76110FFC2     4,440,700.00   4,288,757.85     7.750000  %      3,259.02
M-3     76110FFD0     3,108,500.00   3,002,140.15     7.750000  %      2,281.32
B-1                   1,509,500.00   1,457,851.23     7.750000  %      1,107.82
B-2                     444,000.00     428,808.19     7.750000  %        325.85
B-3                   1,154,562.90   1,057,658.21     7.750000  %        803.72

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  177,623,205.60   110,023,683.70                  2,887,731.61
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1         9,885.13    112,680.00            0.00       0.00      1,504,476.28
A-2             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-3        60,518.93    931,027.45            0.00       0.00      9,458,077.33
A-4        22,843.69     22,843.69            0.00       0.00      3,765,148.00
A-5        24,373.40    444,149.09            0.00       0.00      3,543,217.00
A-6        15,993.74     15,993.74            0.00       0.00      2,600,500.00
A-7        74,572.08    893,889.07            0.00       0.00     14,067,070.44
A-8        36,778.66     36,778.66            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-9             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-10      119,910.46    782,455.56            0.00       0.00     18,834,287.72
A-11       90,014.98     90,014.98            0.00       0.00     13,975,000.00
A-12       12,882.29     12,882.29            0.00       0.00      2,000,000.00
A-13      132,990.02    132,990.02            0.00       0.00     20,646,958.00
A-14            0.00        124.22            0.00       0.00         85,579.45
A-15-1     70,333.17     70,333.17            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-15-2     11,101.62     11,101.62            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        41,436.45     46,324.94            0.00       0.00      6,428,199.97
M-2        27,624.51     30,883.53            0.00       0.00      4,285,498.83
M-3        19,337.21     21,618.53            0.00       0.00      2,999,858.83
B-1         9,390.23     10,498.05            0.00       0.00      1,456,743.41
B-2         2,762.02      3,087.87            0.00       0.00        428,482.34
B-3         6,812.53      7,616.25            0.00       0.00      1,056,854.49

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          789,561.12  3,677,292.73            0.00       0.00    107,135,952.09
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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     401.817788   25.698717     2.471283    28.170000   0.000000  376.119071
A-2       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-3     786.747698   66.308262     4.609840    70.918102   0.000000  720.439436
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     6.067143     6.067143   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5     377.427875   39.978637     2.321276    42.299913   0.000000  337.449238
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     6.150256     6.150256   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7     471.393079   25.944532     2.361403    28.305935   0.000000  445.448547
A-8       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-9       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-10    930.471236   31.619451     5.722634    37.342085   0.000000  898.851785
A-11   1000.000000    0.000000     6.441143     6.441143   0.000000 1000.000000
A-12   1000.000000    0.000000     6.441145     6.441145   0.000000 1000.000000
A-13   1000.000000    0.000000     6.441144     6.441144   0.000000 1000.000000
A-14    739.942948    1.072483     0.000000     1.072483   0.000000  738.870466
A-15-1    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-15-2    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
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     965.784186    0.733897     6.220755     6.954652   0.000000  965.050288
M-2     965.784189    0.733898     6.220756     6.954654   0.000000  965.050292
M-3     965.784189    0.733897     6.220753     6.954650   0.000000  965.050291
B-1     965.784187    0.733899     6.220755     6.954654   0.000000  965.050288
B-2     965.784212    0.733896     6.220766     6.954662   0.000000  965.050315
B-3     916.068072    0.696116     5.900527     6.596643   0.000000  915.371947

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       22,483.42
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       46,435.74
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    2,418.46


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    32   4,065,645.54

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                   10     939,999.73

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          3     202,349.25


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             6
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        591,175.17

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     107,135,952.09

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,119

NUMBER OF REO LOANS ACQUIRED
INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                                       4

BOOK VALUE OF REAL ESTATE ACQUIRED THROUGH
FORECLOSURE OR GRANT OF A DEED IN LIEU OF
FORECLOSURE, INCLUDING ANY PENDING CASH LIQUIDATIONS                 299,281.57

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    2,804,073.50

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         84.83844790 %    12.48339000 %    2.67816240 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            84.44130790 %    12.80014539 %    2.74831390 %

      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                          8.96577489
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              326.06

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                60.31641627

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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           0.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-2     76110FFF5    10,146,000.00           0.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-3     76110FFG3    24,816,000.00   7,728,585.67     6.750000  %  4,221,729.51
A-4     76110FFH1    15,938,000.00  15,938,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-5     76110FFJ7    10,253,000.00   8,553,019.81     6.750000  %    993,348.15
A-6     76110FFK4    31,511,646.00  18,184,919.05    11.000000  %  1,117,516.61
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     157,105.58     0.000000  %        203.63
A-13-1                        0.00           0.00     1.023126  %          0.00
A-13-2                        0.00           0.00     0.662497  %          0.00
R       76110FFT5           100.00           0.00     7.500000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FFV0     9,377,000.00   9,243,194.95     7.500000  %      6,599.03
M-2     76110FFW8     6,251,000.00   6,161,801.40     7.500000  %      4,399.12
M-3     76110FFW8     4,375,700.00   4,313,260.97     7.500000  %      3,079.38
B-1                   1,624,900.00   1,601,713.50     7.500000  %      1,143.52
B-2                     624,800.00     615,884.43     7.500000  %        439.70
B-3                   1,500,282.64   1,404,800.06     7.500000  %      1,002.94

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  250,038,730.26   174,051,639.42                  6,349,461.59
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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             0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-3        43,039.98  4,264,769.49            0.00       0.00      3,506,856.16
A-4        88,757.66     88,757.66            0.00       0.00     15,938,000.00
A-5        47,631.20  1,040,979.35            0.00       0.00      7,559,671.66
A-6       165,033.58  1,282,550.19            0.00       0.00     17,067,402.44
A-7        98,302.81     98,302.81            0.00       0.00     17,652,000.00
A-8        31,495.60     31,495.60            0.00       0.00      5,655,589.00
A-9       106,188.42    106,188.42            0.00       0.00     19,068,000.00
A-10       57,180.50     57,180.50            0.00       0.00     10,267,765.00
A-11      293,953.06    293,953.06            0.00       0.00     47,506,000.00
A-12            0.00        203.63            0.00       0.00        156,901.95
A-13-1    114,069.35    114,069.35            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-13-2     21,270.36     21,270.36            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        57,194.15     63,793.18            0.00       0.00      9,236,595.92
M-2        38,127.40     42,526.52            0.00       0.00      6,157,402.28
M-3        26,689.18     29,768.56            0.00       0.00      4,310,181.59
B-1         9,910.93     11,054.45            0.00       0.00      1,600,569.98
B-2         3,810.91      4,250.61            0.00       0.00        615,444.73
B-3         8,692.49      9,695.43            0.00       0.00      1,403,797.12

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        1,211,347.58  7,560,809.17            0.00       0.00    167,702,177.83
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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       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-2       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-3     311.435593  170.121273     1.734364   171.855637   0.000000  141.314320
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     5.568933     5.568933   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5     834.196802   96.883658     4.645587   101.529245   0.000000  737.313144
A-6     577.085661   35.463606     5.237225    40.700831   0.000000  541.622054
A-7    1000.000000    0.000000     5.568933     5.568933   0.000000 1000.000000
A-8    1000.000000    0.000000     5.568934     5.568934   0.000000 1000.000000
A-9    1000.000000    0.000000     5.568933     5.568933   0.000000 1000.000000
A-10   1000.000000    0.000000     5.568933     5.568933   0.000000 1000.000000
A-11   1000.000000    0.000000     6.187704     6.187704   0.000000 1000.000000
A-12    737.766311    0.956245     0.000000     0.956245   0.000000  736.810066
A-13-1    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-13-2    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     985.730505    0.703746     6.099408     6.803154   0.000000  985.026759
M-2     985.730507    0.703747     6.099408     6.803155   0.000000  985.026761
M-3     985.730505    0.703746     6.099408     6.803154   0.000000  985.026759
B-1     985.730506    0.703748     6.099409     6.803157   0.000000  985.026759
B-2     985.730522    0.703745     6.099408     6.803153   0.000000  985.026777
B-3     936.356939    0.668494     5.793902     6.462396   0.000000  935.688438

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       35,659.41
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       42,938.02
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    1,300.58


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    36   3,582,485.38

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    9   1,150,666.55

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             5
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        792,130.24

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     167,702,177.83

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,668

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                 163,922.17

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    6,225,140.40

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         86.57769470 %    11.33920500 %    2.08310050 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            86.07899180 %    11.74950740 %    2.16049770 %

      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                          8.76476719
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              331.10

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                67.07048050

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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  16,465,032.00     9.000000  %  1,050,004.89
A-2     76110FFZ1    37,000,000.00   5,425,203.58     7.250000  %  2,264,049.21
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   4,965,949.10     7.250000  %    360,963.18
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     113,613.36     0.000000  %        103.05
A-10-1                        0.00           0.00     0.795274  %          0.00
A-10-2                        0.00           0.00     0.499055  %          0.00
R       76100FGJ6           100.00           0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FGK3     4,931,600.00   4,868,227.86     7.750000  %     20,372.04
M-2     76110FGL1     4,109,600.00   4,056,790.74     7.750000  %     16,976.43
M-3     76110FGM9     2,630,200.00   2,596,401.35     7.750000  %     10,865.14
B-1                   1,068,500.00   1,054,769.53     7.750000  %      4,413.89
B-2                     410,900.00     405,619.85     7.750000  %      1,697.39
B-3                     821,738.81     808,942.18     7.750000  %      3,385.16

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  164,383,983.57   112,932,762.55                  3,732,830.38
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       123,181.83  1,173,186.72            0.00       0.00     15,415,027.11
A-2        32,696.07  2,296,745.28            0.00       0.00      3,161,154.37
A-3        31,338.84     31,338.84            0.00       0.00      5,200,000.00
A-4       109,685.94    109,685.94            0.00       0.00     18,200,000.00
A-5        29,928.29    390,891.47            0.00       0.00      4,604,985.92
A-6        44,425.39     44,425.39            0.00       0.00      7,371,430.00
A-7        67,005.32     67,005.32            0.00       0.00     10,400,783.00
A-8       199,712.36    199,712.36            0.00       0.00     31,000,000.00
A-9             0.00        103.05            0.00       0.00        113,510.31
A-10-1     57,318.90     57,318.90            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-10-2     10,880.94     10,880.94            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        31,362.75     51,734.79            0.00       0.00      4,847,855.82
M-2        26,135.21     43,111.64            0.00       0.00      4,039,814.31
M-3        16,726.89     27,592.03            0.00       0.00      2,585,536.21
B-1         6,795.17     11,209.06            0.00       0.00      1,050,355.64
B-2         2,613.14      4,310.53            0.00       0.00        403,922.46
B-3         5,211.48      8,596.64            0.00       0.00        805,557.02

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          795,018.52  4,527,848.90            0.00       0.00    109,199,932.17
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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     529.276402   33.752914     3.959739    37.712653   0.000000  495.523488
A-2     146.627124   61.190519     0.883678    62.074197   0.000000   85.436605
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     6.026700     6.026700   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     6.026700     6.026700   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5     496.594910   36.096318     2.992829    39.089147   0.000000  460.498592
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     6.026699     6.026699   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7    1000.000000    0.000000     6.442334     6.442334   0.000000 1000.000000
A-8    1000.000000    0.000000     6.442334     6.442334   0.000000 1000.000000
A-9     870.188637    0.789282     0.000000     0.789282   0.000000  869.399356
A-10-1    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-10-2    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     987.149781    4.130919     6.359549    10.490468   0.000000  983.018862
M-2     987.149781    4.130920     6.359551    10.490471   0.000000  983.018861
M-3     987.149779    4.130918     6.359551    10.490469   0.000000  983.018862
B-1     987.149771    4.130922     6.359541    10.490463   0.000000  983.018849
B-2     987.149793    4.130908     6.359552    10.490460   0.000000  983.018885
B-3     984.427375    4.119533     6.342015    10.461548   0.000000  980.307867

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       23,117.57
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       38,954.53
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      693.23


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    29   3,345,099.80

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    7     850,514.94

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             5
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        710,586.13

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     109,199,932.17

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,137

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                  84,780.57

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    3,260,618.99

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                      391,821.80

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         87.77623160 %    10.21229100 %    2.01147730 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            87.41086080 %    10.50660574 %    2.07160070 %

      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                          8.79818775
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              332.38

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                66.42978823

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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           0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-2     76110FGT4    26,579,000.00  22,358,691.00     7.500000  %  3,316,758.38
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   5,597,098.72     9.500000  %    473,822.63
A-8     76110FGZ0    27,500,000.00  27,500,000.00     7.750000  %          0.00
A-9     76110FHA4       107,351.50      93,759.09     0.000000  %      1,377.38
A-10-1                        0.00           0.00     0.809635  %          0.00
A-10-2                        0.00           0.00     0.498801  %          0.00
R       76110FHC0           100.00           0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FHD8     5,346,700.00   5,286,107.85     7.750000  %      3,654.76
M-2     76110FHE6     4,112,900.00   4,066,290.04     7.750000  %      2,811.39
M-3     76110FHF3     2,632,200.00   2,602,370.24     7.750000  %      1,799.25
B-1                   1,069,400.00   1,057,280.90     7.750000  %        730.99
B-2                     411,200.00     406,540.04     7.750000  %        281.08
B-3                     823,585.68     814,252.25     7.750000  %        562.96

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  164,514,437.18   118,231,390.13                  3,801,798.82
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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       139,538.78  3,456,297.16            0.00       0.00     19,041,932.62
A-3       104,978.50    104,978.50            0.00       0.00     16,821,000.00
A-4       151,485.83    151,485.83            0.00       0.00     23,490,000.00
A-5        46,032.60     46,032.60            0.00       0.00      7,138,000.00
A-6         6,448.95      6,448.95            0.00       0.00      1,000,000.00
A-7        44,245.98    518,068.61            0.00       0.00      5,123,276.09
A-8       177,346.12    177,346.12            0.00       0.00     27,500,000.00
A-9             0.00      1,377.38            0.00       0.00         92,381.71
A-10-1     59,684.45     59,684.45            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-10-2     12,303.08     12,303.08            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        34,089.85     37,744.61            0.00       0.00      5,282,453.09
M-2        26,223.30     29,034.69            0.00       0.00      4,063,478.65
M-3        16,782.55     18,581.80            0.00       0.00      2,600,570.99
B-1         6,818.35      7,549.34            0.00       0.00      1,056,549.91
B-2         2,621.76      2,902.84            0.00       0.00        406,258.96
B-3         5,251.07      5,814.03            0.00       0.00        813,689.29

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          833,851.17  4,635,649.99            0.00       0.00    114,429,591.31
===============================================================================













































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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       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-2     841.216411  124.788682     5.249964   130.038646   0.000000  716.427729
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     6.240919     6.240919   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     6.448950     6.448950   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     6.448949     6.448949   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     6.448950     6.448950   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7     364.062620   30.819736     2.877975    33.697711   0.000000  333.242884
A-8    1000.000000    0.000000     6.448950     6.448950   0.000000 1000.000000
A-9     873.384070   12.830561     0.000000    12.830561   0.000000  860.553509
A-10-1    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-10-2    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     988.667374    0.683554     6.375867     7.059421   0.000000  987.983820
M-2     988.667373    0.683554     6.375866     7.059420   0.000000  987.983819
M-3     988.667366    0.683554     6.375864     7.059418   0.000000  987.983812
B-1     988.667384    0.683552     6.375865     7.059417   0.000000  987.983832
B-2     988.667412    0.683560     6.375875     7.059435   0.000000  987.983852
B-3     988.667324    0.683548     6.375864     7.059412   0.000000  987.983771

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       24,107.62
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       42,374.74
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    5,103.41


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    26   2,942,238.44

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    4     187,431.68

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          4     540,142.10


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                            10
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      1,758,350.49

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     114,429,591.31

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,117

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                 635,100.78

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    3,720,043.05

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         87.95232210 %    10.11935700 %    1.92832140 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            87.56047930 %    10.44004666 %    1.99103880 %

      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                          8.80398488
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              335.29

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                69.55595708

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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           0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-2     76110FHL0    35,775,000.00  27,488,627.53     7.250000  %  3,776,038.20
A-3     76110FHM8    22,398,546.00  22,398,546.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-4     76110FHN6    24,498,244.00  13,049,937.88    10.000000  %    839,119.60
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     146,003.53     0.000000  %        886.88
A-9-1                         0.00           0.00     0.802414  %          0.00
A-9-2                         0.00           0.00     0.507828  %          0.00
R       76110FHU0           100.00           0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FHV8     7,186,600.00   7,102,098.11     7.750000  %      4,900.22
M-2     76110FHW6     4,975,300.00   4,916,799.13     7.750000  %      3,392.43
M-3     76110FHX4     3,316,900.00   3,277,899.04     7.750000  %      2,261.64
B-1                   1,216,200.00   1,201,899.61     7.750000  %        829.27
B-2                     552,900.00     546,398.87     7.750000  %        377.00
B-3                     995,114.30     983,413.51     7.750000  %        678.53

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  221,126,398.63   157,936,823.21                  4,628,483.77
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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       166,033.51  3,942,071.71            0.00       0.00     23,712,589.33
A-3       135,289.01    135,289.01            0.00       0.00     22,398,546.00
A-4       108,720.92    947,840.52            0.00       0.00     12,210,818.28
A-5       110,440.37    110,440.37            0.00       0.00     17,675,100.00
A-6        46,165.60     46,165.60            0.00       0.00      7,150,100.00
A-7       335,745.14    335,745.14            0.00       0.00     52,000,000.00
A-8             0.00        886.88            0.00       0.00        145,116.65
A-9-1      81,747.96     81,747.96            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-9-2      15,083.48     15,083.48            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        45,855.67     50,755.89            0.00       0.00      7,097,197.89
M-2        31,745.99     35,138.42            0.00       0.00      4,913,406.70
M-3        21,164.20     23,425.84            0.00       0.00      3,275,637.40
B-1         7,760.23      8,589.50            0.00       0.00      1,201,070.34
B-2         3,527.90      3,904.90            0.00       0.00        546,021.87
B-3         6,349.54      7,028.07            0.00       0.00        982,734.98

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,115,629.52  5,744,113.29            0.00       0.00    153,308,339.44
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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       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-2     768.375333  105.549635     4.641048   110.190683   0.000000  662.825698
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     6.040080     6.040080   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4     532.688705   34.252235     4.437907    38.690142   0.000000  498.436471
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     6.248359     6.248359   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     6.456637     6.456637   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7    1000.000000    0.000000     6.456637     6.456637   0.000000 1000.000000
A-8     940.233506    5.711330     0.000000     5.711330   0.000000  934.522176
A-9-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-9-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     988.241743    0.681855     6.380718     7.062573   0.000000  987.559888
M-2     988.241740    0.681854     6.380719     7.062573   0.000000  987.559886
M-3     988.241744    0.681854     6.380717     7.062571   0.000000  987.559890
B-1     988.241745    0.681853     6.380719     7.062572   0.000000  987.559892
B-2     988.241762    0.681859     6.380720     7.062579   0.000000  987.559902
B-3     988.241763    0.681851     6.380714     7.062565   0.000000  987.559901

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       32,536.43
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       36,112.01
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    39   3,628,257.99

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    4     493,785.93

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1      71,491.62


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             5
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        451,593.37

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     153,308,339.44

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,511

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                    4,519,492.53

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         88.57442510 %     9.69435100 %    1.73122370 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            88.23734000 %     9.97091355 %    1.78229940 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         146,943.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            1,743,213.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,497,768.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.80886862
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              335.81

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                69.33063641

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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           0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-2     76110FJA2    10,800,000.00   6,583,401.43     7.250000  %  3,297,427.65
A-3     76110FJB0    29,956,909.00  15,888,184.60    10.000000  %  1,236,535.36
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     279,355.86     0.000000  %     13,889.79
A-11-1                        0.00           0.00     0.711824  %          0.00
A-11-2                        0.00           0.00     0.375794  %          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   6,651,598.15     8.000000  %      4,329.47
M-2     76110FJP9     4,330,000.00   4,279,557.22     8.000000  %      2,785.53
M-3     76110FJQ7     2,886,000.00   2,852,379.25     8.000000  %      1,856.59
B-1                   1,058,000.00   1,045,674.71     8.000000  %        680.62
B-2                     481,000.00     475,396.53     8.000000  %        309.43
B-3                     866,066.26     855,976.96     8.000000  %        557.17

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  192,360,424.83   140,523,615.71                  4,558,371.61
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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        39,764.04  3,337,191.69            0.00       0.00      3,285,973.78
A-3       132,365.99  1,368,901.35            0.00       0.00     14,651,649.24
A-4       144,961.07    144,961.07            0.00       0.00     24,000,000.00
A-5        71,182.47     71,182.47            0.00       0.00     11,785,091.00
A-6       120,920.86    120,920.86            0.00       0.00     18,143,000.00
A-7        31,771.47     31,771.47            0.00       0.00      4,767,000.00
A-8        26,815.93     26,815.93            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-9       259,220.60    259,220.60            0.00       0.00     42,917,000.00
A-10            0.00     13,889.79            0.00       0.00        265,466.07
A-11-1     61,947.40     61,947.40            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-11-2     11,290.85     11,290.85            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        44,332.08     48,661.55            0.00       0.00      6,647,268.68
M-2        28,522.72     31,308.25            0.00       0.00      4,276,771.69
M-3        19,010.75     20,867.34            0.00       0.00      2,850,522.66
B-1         6,969.29      7,649.91            0.00       0.00      1,044,994.09
B-2         3,168.46      3,477.89            0.00       0.00        475,087.10
B-3         5,704.98      6,262.15            0.00       0.00        855,419.79

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        1,007,948.96  5,566,320.57            0.00       0.00    135,965,244.10
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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       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-2     609.574206  305.317375     3.681856   308.999231   0.000000  304.256832
A-3     530.367956   41.277135     4.418546    45.695681   0.000000  489.090822
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     6.040045     6.040045   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     6.040044     6.040044   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     6.664877     6.664877   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7    1000.000000    0.000000     6.664877     6.664877   0.000000 1000.000000
A-8       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-9    1000.000000    0.000000     6.040045     6.040045   0.000000 1000.000000
A-10    821.251865   40.833280     0.000000    40.833280   0.000000  780.418585
A-11-1    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-11-2    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
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     988.350394    0.643309     6.587233     7.230542   0.000000  987.707085
M-2     988.350397    0.643309     6.587233     7.230542   0.000000  987.707088
M-3     988.350398    0.643309     6.587231     7.230540   0.000000  987.707089
B-1     988.350388    0.643308     6.587231     7.230539   0.000000  987.707079
B-2     988.350374    0.643306     6.587235     7.230541   0.000000  987.707069
B-3     988.350429    0.643311     6.587233     7.230544   0.000000  987.707099

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       28,851.69
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       42,913.09
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      382.63


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    33   3,319,389.30

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    5     731,643.97

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          3     398,354.64


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             8
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        967,248.23

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     135,965,244.10

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,353

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                  44,638.01

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    4,466,837.19

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         88.47683120 %     9.82823400 %    1.69493440 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            88.09868060 %    10.13094421 %    1.75055630 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         146,943.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            1,490,509.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,490,509.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.93848919
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              337.85

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                70.68254513

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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  21,228,263.41     7.500000  %  1,213,168.18
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  20,292,054.60     7.500000  %     70,743.29
A-6     76110FJW4       164,986.80     131,932.74     0.000000  %        505.14
A-7-1                         0.00           0.00     0.854588  %          0.00
A-7-2                         0.00           0.00     0.325260  %          0.00
R       76110FJY0           100.00           0.00     7.500000  %          0.00
M-1                   2,654,400.00   2,531,522.66     7.500000  %      8,825.54
M-2     76110FKA0     1,061,700.00   1,012,551.85     7.500000  %      3,530.01
M-3     76110FKB8       690,100.00     658,153.92     7.500000  %      2,294.49
B-1                     371,600.00     354,397.91     7.500000  %      1,235.52
B-2                     159,300.00     151,925.68     7.500000  %        529.65
B-3                     372,446.48     355,205.23     7.500000  %      1,238.34

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  106,172,633.28    83,191,008.00                  1,302,070.16
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       132,568.93  1,345,737.11            0.00       0.00     20,015,095.23
A-2        97,939.17     97,939.17            0.00       0.00     15,683,000.00
A-3       117,067.38    117,067.38            0.00       0.00     18,746,000.00
A-4        12,777.12     12,777.12            0.00       0.00      2,046,000.00
A-5       126,722.37    197,465.66            0.00       0.00     20,221,311.31
A-6             0.00        505.14            0.00       0.00        131,427.60
A-7-1      46,356.55     46,356.55            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-7-2       4,887.10      4,887.10            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        15,809.17     24,634.71            0.00       0.00      2,522,697.12
M-2         6,323.31      9,853.32            0.00       0.00      1,009,021.84
M-3         4,110.12      6,404.61            0.00       0.00        655,859.43
B-1         2,213.19      3,448.71            0.00       0.00        353,162.39
B-2           948.77      1,478.42            0.00       0.00        151,396.03
B-3         2,218.23      3,456.57            0.00       0.00        353,966.89

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          569,941.41  1,872,011.57            0.00       0.00     81,888,937.84
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     494.301295   28.248689     3.086875    31.335564   0.000000  466.052606
A-2    1000.000000    0.000000     6.244926     6.244926   0.000000 1000.000000
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     6.244926     6.244926   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     6.244927     6.244927   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5     953.708446    3.324871     5.955838     9.280709   0.000000  950.383574
A-6     799.656336    3.061699     0.000000     3.061699   0.000000  796.594637
A-7-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-7-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     953.708055    3.324872     5.955836     9.280708   0.000000  950.383183
M-2     953.708063    3.324866     5.955835     9.280701   0.000000  950.383197
M-3     953.708042    3.324866     5.955832     9.280698   0.000000  950.383176
B-1     953.708046    3.324865     5.955840     9.280705   0.000000  950.383181
B-2     953.707972    3.324859     5.955869     9.280728   0.000000  950.383114
B-3     953.708114    3.324880     5.955836     9.280716   0.000000  950.383234

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       17,251.75
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                     2,404.10

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        8,030.14
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    11     513,005.11

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    2     115,711.26

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             2
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        162,014.00

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                      81,888,937.84

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,103

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                    1,012,003.90

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         93.90342690 %     5.05932500 %    1.03724830 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            93.82796310 %     5.11372903 %    1.05008740 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         154,147.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            8,574,020.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,813,254.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.55893996
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              156.56

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                77.12810289

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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  43,787,556.55     7.500000  %  2,230,545.70
A-2     76110FKD4    20,984,000.00  16,931,556.55     7.500000  %  2,230,545.70
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  15,817,016.12     9.500000  %    637,298.77
A-8     76110FKP7       156,262.27     116,879.07     0.000000  %      3,270.49
A-9-1                         0.00           0.00     0.840869  %          0.00
A-9-2                         0.00           0.00     0.533544  %          0.00
R       76110FKK8           100.00           0.00     7.750000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FKL6     6,697,000.00   6,620,186.38     7.750000  %      4,874.18
M-2     76110FKM4     3,827,000.00   3,783,104.86     7.750000  %      2,785.35
M-3     76110FKN2     2,870,200.00   2,837,279.24     7.750000  %      2,088.98
B-1                   1,052,400.00   1,040,329.14     7.750000  %        765.95
B-2                     478,400.00     472,912.81     7.750000  %        348.19
B-3                     861,188.35     851,310.63     7.750000  %        626.79

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  191,342,550.62   142,258,131.35                  5,113,150.10
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       272,136.42  2,502,682.12            0.00       0.00     41,557,010.86
A-2       105,228.37  2,335,774.07            0.00       0.00     14,701,010.86
A-3        68,364.18     68,364.18            0.00       0.00     11,000,000.00
A-4        24,859.70     24,859.70            0.00       0.00      4,000,000.00
A-5       112,386.57    112,386.57            0.00       0.00     17,500,000.00
A-6       105,135.83    105,135.83            0.00       0.00     17,500,000.00
A-7       124,515.33    761,814.10            0.00       0.00     15,179,717.35
A-8             0.00      3,270.49            0.00       0.00        113,608.58
A-9-1      76,130.13     76,130.13            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-9-2      14,585.17     14,585.17            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        42,515.43     47,389.61            0.00       0.00      6,615,312.20
M-2        24,295.44     27,080.79            0.00       0.00      3,780,319.51
M-3        18,221.27     20,310.25            0.00       0.00      2,835,190.26
B-1         6,681.09      7,447.04            0.00       0.00      1,039,563.19
B-2         3,037.09      3,385.28            0.00       0.00        472,564.62
B-3         5,467.20      6,093.99            0.00       0.00        850,683.84

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,003,559.22  6,116,709.32            0.00       0.00    137,144,981.27
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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     530.816168   27.039867     3.298983    30.338850   0.000000  503.776301
A-2     806.879363  106.297450     5.014695   111.312145   0.000000  700.581913
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     6.214925     6.214925   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     6.214925     6.214925   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     6.422090     6.422090   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     6.007762     6.007762   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7     721.414646   29.067219     5.679148    34.746367   0.000000  692.347428
A-8     747.967312   20.929492     0.000000    20.929492   0.000000  727.037819
A-9-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-9-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     988.530145    0.727815     6.348429     7.076244   0.000000  987.802329
M-2     988.530144    0.727816     6.348430     7.076246   0.000000  987.802328
M-3     988.530151    0.727817     6.348432     7.076249   0.000000  987.802334
B-1     988.530160    0.727813     6.348432     7.076245   0.000000  987.802347
B-2     988.530121    0.727822     6.348432     7.076254   0.000000  987.802299
B-3     988.530128    0.727820     6.348437     7.076257   0.000000  987.802308

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       29,068.85
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       35,821.39
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      673.16


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    27   2,755,885.87

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    2     448,457.86

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1      73,102.68


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             5
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                      1,274,258.64

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     137,144,981.26

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,330

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                  90,485.20

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    5,008,404.79

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         89.02139750 %     9.31507900 %    1.66352310 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            88.62039160 %     9.64732493 %    1.72428520 %

      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                          8.84226914
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              338.37

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                71.67510876

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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           0.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-2     76110FKV4    20,850,000.00   1,096,179.58     7.000000  %  1,096,179.58
A-3     76110FKW2    16,320,750.00   9,636,012.63    10.000000  %    495,346.39
A-4     76110FKX0    19,700,543.00  19,430,676.62     7.000000  %  1,380,552.43
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  17,318,692.39     7.500000  %    643,148.88
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      25,168.25     0.000000  %        629.87
A-12-1                        0.00           0.00     0.951517  %          0.00
A-12-2                        0.00           0.00     0.657126  %          0.00
R       76110FLG6           100.00           0.00     7.500000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FLH4     7,631,000.00   7,551,743.38     7.500000  %      5,139.71
M-2     76110FLJ0     4,361,000.00   4,315,706.04     7.500000  %      2,937.27
M-3     76110FLK7     3,270,500.00   3,236,532.13     7.500000  %      2,202.78
B-1                   1,199,000.00   1,186,547.01     7.500000  %        807.56
B-2                     545,000.00     539,339.57     7.500000  %        367.07
B-3                     981,461.72     832,177.68     7.500000  %        566.39

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  218,029,470.88   168,914,546.28                  3,627,877.93
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      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         6,392.41  1,102,571.99            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-3        80,275.37    575,621.76            0.00       0.00      9,140,666.24
A-4       113,310.69  1,493,863.12            0.00       0.00     18,050,124.19
A-5       127,583.07    127,583.07            0.00       0.00     21,419,142.00
A-6        38,191.62     38,191.62            0.00       0.00      6,323,320.00
A-7        99,634.48     99,634.48            0.00       0.00     16,496,308.00
A-8       108,208.48    751,357.36            0.00       0.00     16,675,543.51
A-9        30,719.70     30,719.70            0.00       0.00      5,000,001.00
A-10      340,563.79    340,563.79            0.00       0.00     54,507,000.00
A-11            0.00        629.87            0.00       0.00         24,538.38
A-12-1     99,126.89     99,126.89            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-12-2     24,012.09     24,012.09            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        47,183.86     52,323.57            0.00       0.00      7,546,603.67
M-2        26,964.85     29,902.12            0.00       0.00      4,312,768.77
M-3        20,222.10     22,424.88            0.00       0.00      3,234,329.35
B-1         7,413.64      8,221.20            0.00       0.00      1,185,739.45
B-2         3,369.83      3,736.90            0.00       0.00        538,972.50
B-3         5,199.51      5,765.90            0.00       0.00        831,611.29

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,178,372.38  4,806,250.31            0.00       0.00    165,286,668.35
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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       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-2      52.574560   52.574560     0.306590    52.881150   0.000000    0.000000
A-3     590.414817   30.350713     4.918608    35.269321   0.000000  560.064105
A-4     986.301577   70.076872     5.751653    75.828525   0.000000  916.224705
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     5.956498     5.956498   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     6.039805     6.039805   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7    1000.000000    0.000000     6.039805     6.039805   0.000000 1000.000000
A-8     666.153874   24.738364     4.162179    28.900543   0.000000  641.415510
A-9    1000.000000    0.000000     6.143939     6.143939   0.000000 1000.000000
A-10   1000.000000    0.000000     6.248074     6.248074   0.000000 1000.000000
A-11    953.012137   23.850437     0.000000    23.850437   0.000000  929.161700
A-12-1    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-12-2    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     989.613862    0.673530     6.183182     6.856712   0.000000  988.940332
M-2     989.613859    0.673531     6.183180     6.856711   0.000000  988.940328
M-3     989.613860    0.673530     6.183183     6.856713   0.000000  988.940330
B-1     989.613853    0.673528     6.183186     6.856714   0.000000  988.940325
B-2     989.613890    0.673523     6.183174     6.856697   0.000000  988.940367
B-3     847.896217    0.577078     5.297721     5.874799   0.000000  847.319128

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       34,860.42
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       35,767.96
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    29   3,728,251.26

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    2     643,152.18

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             2
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        259,896.36

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     165,286,668.35

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,537

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                    3,512,905.21

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         89.54224000 %     8.94312100 %    1.51463890 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            89.31998210 %     9.13183256 %    1.54682940 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         220,247.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                           **,***,***.** 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                  **,***,***.** 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.70219677
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              339.97

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                75.80932416

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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  10,213,969.13     6.750000  %  3,633,320.78
A-2     76110FLM3    17,420,000.00  17,420,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-3     76110FLN1    22,971,538.00  15,055,896.21    10.000000  %    660,603.76
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-9-1                         0.00           0.00     1.041824  %          0.00
A-9-2                         0.00           0.00     0.764701  %          0.00
R       76110FLV3           100.00           0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FLW1     8,130,000.00   8,065,353.43     7.250000  %      5,546.26
M-2     76110FLX9     5,420,000.00   5,376,902.27     7.250000  %      3,697.51
M-3     76110FLY2     4,065,000.00   4,032,676.70     7.250000  %      2,773.13
B-1                   1,490,500.00   1,478,648.10     7.250000  %      1,016.81
B-2                     677,500.00     672,112.78     7.250000  %        462.19
B-3                   1,219,925.82   1,210,225.46     7.250000  %        832.24

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  271,005,025.82   219,386,246.08                  4,308,252.68
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1        57,438.17  3,690,758.95            0.00       0.00      6,580,648.35
A-2        97,961.21     97,961.21            0.00       0.00     17,420,000.00
A-3       125,432.14    786,035.90            0.00       0.00     14,395,292.45
A-4       213,748.89    213,748.89            0.00       0.00     38,010,000.00
A-5        96,518.57     96,518.57            0.00       0.00     17,163,462.00
A-6       181,062.45    181,062.45            0.00       0.00     29,977,000.00
A-7        97,033.34     97,033.34            0.00       0.00     16,065,000.00
A-8       330,058.30    330,058.30            0.00       0.00     54,645,000.00
A-9-1     154,665.27    154,665.27            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-9-2      26,241.41     26,241.41            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        48,715.11     54,261.37            0.00       0.00      8,059,807.17
M-2        32,476.73     36,174.24            0.00       0.00      5,373,204.76
M-3        24,357.55     27,130.68            0.00       0.00      4,029,903.57
B-1         8,931.10      9,947.91            0.00       0.00      1,477,631.29
B-2         4,059.59      4,521.78            0.00       0.00        671,650.59
B-3         7,309.82      8,142.06            0.00       0.00      1,209,393.22

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,506,009.65  5,814,262.33            0.00       0.00    215,077,993.40
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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     190.027333   67.596666     1.068617    68.665283   0.000000  122.430667
A-2    1000.000000    0.000000     5.623491     5.623491   0.000000 1000.000000
A-3     655.415245   28.757489     5.460328    34.217817   0.000000  626.657756
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     5.623491     5.623491   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     5.623491     5.623491   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     6.040046     6.040046   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7    1000.000000    0.000000     6.040046     6.040046   0.000000 1000.000000
A-8    1000.000000    0.000000     6.040046     6.040046   0.000000 1000.000000
A-9-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-9-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     992.048392    0.682197     5.992018     6.674215   0.000000  991.366196
M-2     992.048389    0.682197     5.992017     6.674214   0.000000  991.366192
M-3     992.048389    0.682197     5.992017     6.674214   0.000000  991.366192
B-1     992.048373    0.682194     5.992016     6.674210   0.000000  991.366179
B-2     992.048384    0.682199     5.992015     6.674214   0.000000  991.366185
B-3     992.048402    0.682197     5.992020     6.674217   0.000000  991.366198

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       49,185.38
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       39,275.80
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    41   3,963,718.42

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    4     603,266.42

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          4     296,651.28


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             4
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        280,432.00

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     215,077,993.40

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,102

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                    4,157,388.37

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         90.50263220 %     7.96537300 %    1.53199500 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            90.31905110 %     8.11934091 %    1.56160800 %

      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                          8.59238132
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              341.20

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                79.36310139

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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   199,969,492.00 149,241,936.14     7.250000  %  9,809,383.46
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  64,350,746.09     7.250000  %     72,532.06
A-5     7611OFMS9        76,250.57      75,531.24     0.000000  %         67.66
A-6-1                         0.00           0.00     1.011345  %          0.00
A-6-2                         0.00           0.00     0.717195  %          0.00
R       7611OFMU4           100.00           0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
M-1     7611OFMV2    10,602,000.00  10,509,612.74     7.250000  %     11,845.77
M-2     7611OFMW0     6,524,000.00   6,467,149.00     7.250000  %      7,289.36
M-3     7611OFMX8     4,893,000.00   4,850,361.73     7.250000  %      5,467.02
B-1     7611OFMY6     1,794,000.00   1,778,366.83     7.250000  %      2,004.46
B-2     7611OFMZ3       816,000.00     808,889.26     7.250000  %        911.73
B-3     7611OFNA7     1,468,094.11   1,455,300.96     7.250000  %      1,640.32

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  326,202,444.68   274,680,893.99                  9,911,141.84
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       897,462.89 10,706,846.35            0.00       0.00    139,432,552.68
A-2        60,134.77     60,134.77            0.00       0.00     10,000,000.00
A-3       151,196.85    151,196.85            0.00       0.00     25,143,000.00
A-4       386,971.71    459,503.77            0.00       0.00     64,278,214.03
A-5             0.00         67.66            0.00       0.00         75,463.58
A-6-1     174,942.72    174,942.72            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-6-2      39,339.87     39,339.87            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        63,199.31     75,045.08            0.00       0.00     10,497,766.97
M-2        38,890.05     46,179.41            0.00       0.00      6,459,859.64
M-3        29,167.54     34,634.56            0.00       0.00      4,844,894.71
B-1        10,694.17     12,698.63            0.00       0.00      1,776,362.37
B-2         4,864.24      5,775.97            0.00       0.00        807,977.53
B-3         8,751.42     10,391.74            0.00       0.00      1,453,660.64

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,865,615.54 11,776,757.38            0.00       0.00    264,769,752.15
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     746.323525   49.054400     4.487999    53.542399   0.000000  697.269125
A-2    1000.000000    0.000000     6.013477     6.013477   0.000000 1000.000000
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     6.013477     6.013477   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4     991.284776    1.117313     5.961068     7.078381   0.000000  990.167463
A-5     990.566234    0.887338     0.000000     0.887338   0.000000  989.678897
A-6-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-6-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     991.285865    1.117315     5.961074     7.078389   0.000000  990.168550
M-2     991.285868    1.117315     5.961074     7.078389   0.000000  990.168553
M-3     991.285863    1.117315     5.961075     7.078390   0.000000  990.168549
B-1     991.285858    1.117313     5.961076     7.078389   0.000000  990.168545
B-2     991.285858    1.117316     5.961078     7.078394   0.000000  990.168542
B-3     991.285879    1.117313     5.961076     7.078389   0.000000  990.168566

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       56,224.15
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       60,709.31
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                    1,576.77


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    47   5,587,531.50

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    9     984,359.04

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          3     573,323.40


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             7
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        801,245.61

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     264,769,752.15

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,429

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                 208,739.84

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    9,601,559.27

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                      124,558.32

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         90.57932440 %     7.94854200 %    1.47213330 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            90.23759750 %     8.23452118 %    1.52553370 %

      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                          8.51783365
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              342.61

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                81.16731081

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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  82,672,673.65     7.000000  %  1,881,260.99
A-2     7611OFMD2        43,142.76      38,376.38     0.000000  %        238.28
A-3-1                         0.00           0.00     1.074767  %          0.00
A-3-2                         0.00           0.00     0.652011  %          0.00
R       7611OFMF7           100.00           0.00     7.000000  %          0.00
M-1     7611OFMG5     3,043,000.00   2,937,232.38     7.000000  %      9,942.52
M-2     7611OFMH3       892,000.00     860,996.14     7.000000  %      2,914.47
M-3     7611OFMJ9       419,700.00     405,112.21     7.000000  %      1,371.30
B-1     7611OFMK6       367,000.00     354,243.94     7.000000  %      1,199.11
B-2     7611OFML4       262,400.00     253,279.57     7.000000  %        857.35
B-3     7611OFMM2       263,388.53     254,233.72     7.000000  %        860.60

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  104,940,731.29    87,776,147.99                  1,898,644.62
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       481,027.96  2,362,288.95            0.00       0.00     80,791,412.66
A-2             0.00        238.28            0.00       0.00         38,138.10
A-3-1      62,442.17     62,442.17            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-3-2       9,690.19      9,690.19            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        17,090.18     27,032.70            0.00       0.00      2,927,289.86
M-2         5,009.68      7,924.15            0.00       0.00        858,081.67
M-3         2,357.13      3,728.43            0.00       0.00        403,740.91
B-1         2,061.15      3,260.26            0.00       0.00        353,044.83
B-2         1,473.69      2,331.04            0.00       0.00        252,422.22
B-3         1,479.25      2,339.85            0.00       0.00        253,373.12

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          582,631.40  2,481,276.02            0.00       0.00     85,877,503.37
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     829.630443   18.878685     4.827175    23.705860   0.000000  810.751758
A-2     889.520745    5.523059     0.000000     5.523059   0.000000  883.997686
A-3-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-3-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     965.242320    3.267341     5.616227     8.883568   0.000000  961.974979
M-2     965.242309    3.267343     5.616233     8.883576   0.000000  961.974966
M-3     965.242340    3.267334     5.616226     8.883560   0.000000  961.975006
B-1     965.242343    3.267330     5.616213     8.883543   0.000000  961.975014
B-2     965.242264    3.267340     5.616197     8.883537   0.000000  961.974924
B-3     965.242184    3.267340     5.616228     8.883568   0.000000  961.974768

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       18,150.34
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                     3,412.88

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       19,122.55
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    16   1,550,307.11

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    2     307,640.77

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             1
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                         61,783.99

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                      85,877,503.37

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                          991

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                    1,601,440.57

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         94.22700410 %     4.79080000 %    0.98219640 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            94.11930340 %     4.87800911 %    1.00052020 %

      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                          8.31662446
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              161.36

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                81.83429095

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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  24,383,006.82     7.000000  %  6,066,417.77
A-2     76110FNC3    22,405,757.00  17,664,043.68     9.000000  %    866,631.11
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  58,936,188.30     7.250000  %     49,196.02
A-8-1                         0.00           0.00     0.930068  %          0.00
A-8-2                         0.00           0.00     0.754352  %          0.00
R       76110FNJ8           100.00           0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FNK5    10,433,600.00  10,366,302.32     7.250000  %      8,653.10
M-2     76110FNL3     4,471,600.00   4,442,757.77     7.250000  %      3,708.52
M-3     76110FNM1     4,471,500.00   4,442,658.41     7.250000  %      3,708.44
B-1     76110FNN9     1,639,600.00   1,629,024.43     7.250000  %      1,359.80
B-2     76110FNP4       745,200.00     740,393.38     7.250000  %        618.03
B-3     76110FNQ2     1,341,561.05   1,332,907.88     7.250000  %      1,112.62

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  298,104,002.05   259,638,566.99                  7,001,405.41
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       142,150.66  6,208,568.43            0.00       0.00     18,316,589.05
A-2       132,402.51    999,033.62            0.00       0.00     16,797,412.57
A-3       366,258.79    366,258.79            0.00       0.00     62,824,125.00
A-4       139,103.29    139,103.29            0.00       0.00     24,294,118.00
A-5       156,991.06    156,991.06            0.00       0.00     26,000,000.00
A-6       136,359.06    136,359.06            0.00       0.00     22,583,041.00
A-7       355,863.64    405,059.66            0.00       0.00     58,886,992.28
A-8-1     156,564.39    156,564.39            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-8-2      36,134.83     36,134.83            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        62,592.95     71,246.05            0.00       0.00     10,357,649.22
M-2        26,825.89     30,534.41            0.00       0.00      4,439,049.25
M-3        26,825.29     30,533.73            0.00       0.00      4,438,949.97
B-1         9,836.24     11,196.04            0.00       0.00      1,627,664.63
B-2         4,470.58      5,088.61            0.00       0.00        739,775.35
B-3         8,048.26      9,160.88            0.00       0.00      1,331,795.26

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,760,427.44  8,761,832.85            0.00       0.00    252,637,161.58
===============================================================================

















































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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 
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     423.499901  105.365484     2.468965   107.834449   0.000000  318.134417
A-2     788.370760   38.678948     5.909308    44.588256   0.000000  749.691812
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     5.829907     5.829907   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     5.725801     5.725801   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     6.038118     6.038118   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     6.038118     6.038118   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7     993.549908    0.829350     5.999171     6.828521   0.000000  992.720559
A-8-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-8-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     993.549908    0.829349     5.999171     6.828520   0.000000  992.720559
M-2     993.549908    0.829350     5.999170     6.828520   0.000000  992.720559
M-3     993.549907    0.829350     5.999170     6.828520   0.000000  992.720557
B-1     993.549909    0.829349     5.999171     6.828520   0.000000  992.720560
B-2     993.549893    0.829348     5.999168     6.828516   0.000000  992.720545
B-3     993.549925    0.829347     5.999175     6.828522   0.000000  992.720577

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-98  

Run:     11/02/98     12:08:45                                        rept2.frg
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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                       53,552.96
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       55,021.42
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    43   4,894,163.27

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    9   1,386,672.73

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          1     103,521.32


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             7
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        890,448.58

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     252,637,161.58

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,337

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                    6,784,676.34

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                       40,193.82

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         91.15923170 %     7.41481500 %    1.42595370 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            90.92180920 %     7.61394259 %    1.46424830 %

      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                          8.47134648
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              343.63

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                84.74799394

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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  26,285,724.02     7.250000  %    892,460.75
A-2     76110FNT6    30,750,000.00  17,090,880.13     7.250000  %  2,338,304.82
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  62,632,874.47     7.250000  %     43,342.80
A-8     76110FNZ2    15,495,000.00   1,619,963.37     7.250000  %  1,619,963.37
A-9     76110FPA5    68,339,000.00  68,339,000.00     7.000000  %    755,304.24
A-10    76110fPB3             0.00           0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-11    76110FPC1   100,038,312.00  87,415,614.94     0.000000  %  2,154,420.87
A-12    76110FPD9             0.00           0.00     7.250000  %          0.00
A-13    76110FPE7             0.00           0.00     4.875000  %          0.00
A-14    76110FPF4             0.00           0.00     9.625000  %          0.00
A-15    76110FPG2    26,249,000.00  21,904,630.93     7.000000  %    743,712.57
A-16    76110FPH0     2,386,273.00   1,991,330.32    10.000000  %     67,610.24
A-17    76110FPJ6       139,012.74     135,645.70     0.000000  %        130.86
A-18-1                        0.00           0.00     0.912391  %          0.00
A-18-2                        0.00           0.00     0.675513  %          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  16,172,462.57     7.250000  %     11,191.57
M-2     76110FPP2     5,422,000.00   5,390,489.44     7.250000  %      3,730.29
M-3     76110FPQ0     6,507,000.00   6,469,183.86     7.250000  %      4,476.76
B-1     76110FPR8     2,386,000.00   2,372,133.50     7.250000  %      1,641.55
B-2     76110FPS6     1,085,000.00   1,078,694.41     7.250000  %        746.47
B-3     76110FPT4     1,952,210.06   1,940,864.56     7.250000  %      1,343.12

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  433,792,422.80   383,117,907.22                  8,638,380.28
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       158,754.58  1,051,215.33            0.00       0.00     25,393,263.27
A-2       103,221.64  2,441,526.46            0.00       0.00     14,752,575.31
A-3       246,408.59    246,408.59            0.00       0.00     40,799,000.00
A-4        40,736.93     40,736.93            0.00       0.00      6,745,000.00
A-5        25,580.11     25,580.11            0.00       0.00      4,235,415.00
A-6        63,409.49     63,409.49            0.00       0.00     10,499,000.00
A-7       378,275.90    421,618.70            0.00       0.00     62,589,531.67
A-8         9,783.89  1,629,747.26            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-9       398,506.11  1,153,810.35            0.00       0.00     67,583,695.76
A-10       14,232.36     14,232.36            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-11            0.00  2,154,420.87            0.00       0.00     85,261,194.07
A-12      263,976.55    263,976.55            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-13       88,750.73     88,750.73            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-14      175,225.81    175,225.81            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-15      127,732.76    871,445.33            0.00       0.00     21,160,918.36
A-16       16,588.67     84,198.91            0.00       0.00      1,923,720.08
A-17            0.00        130.86            0.00       0.00        135,514.84
A-18-1    215,392.20    215,392.20            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-18-2     56,121.58     56,121.58            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        97,674.79    108,866.36            0.00       0.00     16,161,271.00
M-2        32,556.26     36,286.55            0.00       0.00      5,386,759.15
M-3        39,071.11     43,547.87            0.00       0.00      6,464,707.10
B-1        14,326.68     15,968.23            0.00       0.00      2,370,491.95
B-2         6,514.85      7,261.32            0.00       0.00      1,077,947.94
B-3        11,722.00     13,065.12            0.00       0.00      1,939,521.44

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        2,584,563.59 11,222,943.87            0.00       0.00    374,479,526.94
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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     834.493921   28.332987     5.039988    33.372975   0.000000  806.160934
A-2     555.800980   76.042433     3.356801    79.399234   0.000000  479.758547
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     6.039574     6.039574   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     6.039574     6.039574   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     6.039576     6.039576   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     6.039574     6.039574   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7     994.188391    0.687992     6.004475     6.692467   0.000000  993.500400
A-8     104.547491  104.547491     0.631422   105.178913   0.000000    0.000000
A-9    1000.000000   11.052316     5.831313    16.883629   0.000000  988.947684
A-10      0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-11    873.821371   21.535958     0.000000    21.535958   0.000000  852.285413
A-12      0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-13      0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-14      0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-15    834.493921   28.332987     4.866195    33.199182   0.000000  806.160934
A-16    834.493924   28.332987     6.951707    35.284694   0.000000  806.160937
A-17    975.778911    0.941353     0.000000     0.941353   0.000000  974.837558
A-18-1    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-18-2    0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
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     994.188392    0.687992     6.004475     6.692467   0.000000  993.500400
M-2     994.188388    0.687992     6.004474     6.692466   0.000000  993.500397
M-3     994.188391    0.687991     6.004474     6.692465   0.000000  993.500400
B-1     994.188391    0.687992     6.004476     6.692468   0.000000  993.500398
B-2     994.188396    0.687991     6.004470     6.692461   0.000000  993.500406
B-3     994.188382    0.687989     6.004477     6.692466   0.000000  993.500382

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DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       78,753.79
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       66,124.42
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    68   7,352,467.51

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    3     240,907.76

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          3     495,491.42


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             5
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        724,383.43

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     374,479,526.94

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        3,280

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                    8,373,235.50

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         91.27274770 %     7.31943500 %    1.40781780 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            91.07753900 %     7.48044559 %    1.43930750 %

      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                          8.37870203
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              344.56

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                86.32689444

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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  48,445,797.94     7.000000  %  3,044,484.85
A-2     76110FPV9   117,395,000.00 100,022,213.74     7.000000  %  3,330,636.75
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-6-1                         0.00           0.00     1.127822  %          0.00
A-6-2                         0.00           0.00     0.937716  %          0.00
R       76110FQB2           100.00           0.00     7.000000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FQC0    11,351,500.00  11,291,571.06     7.000000  %      7,864.68
M-2     76110FQD8     4,054,000.00   4,032,597.38     7.000000  %      2,808.74
M-3     76110FQE6     4,865,000.00   4,839,315.79     7.000000  %      3,370.63
B-1     76110FQF3     1,783,800.00   1,774,382.63     7.000000  %      1,235.87
B-2     76110FQG1       810,800.00     806,519.48     7.000000  %        561.75
B-3     76110FQH9     1,459,579.11   1,451,873.41     7.000000  %      1,011.24

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                  324,327,779.11   290,946,271.43                  6,391,974.51
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       282,494.07  3,326,978.92            0.00       0.00     45,401,313.09
A-2       583,243.18  3,913,879.93            0.00       0.00     96,691,576.99
A-3       299,603.80    299,603.80            0.00       0.00     51,380,000.00
A-4        10,857.58     10,857.58            0.00       0.00      1,862,000.00
A-5       379,257.12    379,257.12            0.00       0.00     65,040,000.00
A-6-1     201,058.62    201,058.62            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-6-2      60,100.36     60,100.36            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        65,842.69     73,707.37            0.00       0.00     11,283,706.38
M-2        23,514.62     26,323.36            0.00       0.00      4,029,788.64
M-3        28,218.71     31,589.34            0.00       0.00      4,835,945.16
B-1        10,346.67     11,582.54            0.00       0.00      1,773,146.76
B-2         4,702.93      5,264.68            0.00       0.00        805,957.73
B-3         8,466.07      9,477.31            0.00       0.00      1,450,862.17

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        1,957,706.42  8,349,680.93            0.00       0.00    284,554,296.92
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     753.129340   47.328994     4.391600    51.720594   0.000000  705.800347
A-2     852.014257   28.371198     4.968211    33.339409   0.000000  823.643060
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     5.831137     5.831137   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     5.831139     5.831139   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     5.831137     5.831137   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-6-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     994.720615    0.692832     5.800351     6.493183   0.000000  994.027783
M-2     994.720617    0.692832     5.800350     6.493182   0.000000  994.027785
M-3     994.720615    0.692832     5.800351     6.493183   0.000000  994.027782
B-1     994.720613    0.692830     5.800353     6.493183   0.000000  994.027783
B-2     994.720622    0.692834     5.800358     6.493192   0.000000  994.027787
B-3     994.720601    0.692816     5.800350     6.493166   0.000000  994.027771

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DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       60,041.79
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       49,088.92
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      913.91


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    40   4,600,513.91

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    7     990,893.51

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          4     830,197.20


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             2
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                         99,640.09

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     284,554,296.92

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,447

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                 118,988.16

REMAINING SUBCLASS INTEREST SHORTFALL                                      0.00

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

TOTAL PREPAYMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                    6,189,327.89

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         91.68359860 %     6.93031200 %    1.38608940 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            91.50270890 %     7.08105286 %    1.41623820 %

      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                          8.35851050
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              345.47

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                87.73664029

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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  17,097,716.55     6.750000  %    429,057.39
A-2     76110FQK2   158,282,400.00 135,313,380.46     6.500000  %  3,395,611.64
A-3     76110FQLO    82,584,000.00  82,584,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-4     76110FQM8    38,888,850.00  34,369,036.92     6.193750  %    668,183.94
A-5     76110FQN6             0.00           0.00     2.832025  %          0.00
A-6     76110FQP1    13,504,750.00  11,919,522.76     6.093750  %    234,351.14
A-7     76110FQQ9    86,753,900.00  86,753,900.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-8     76110FQR7       138,732.69     137,169.73     0.000000  %        276.96
A-9-1                         0.00           0.00     1.061876  %          0.00
A-9-2                         0.00           0.00     0.776870  %          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  17,270,247.53     7.000000  %     11,992.77
M-2     76110FQW6     5,422,000.00   5,396,827.94     7.000000  %      3,747.66
M-3     76110FQX4     5,422,000.00   5,396,827.94     7.000000  %      3,747.66
B-1     76110FQY2     2,385,700.00   2,374,624.20     7.000000  %      1,648.98
B-2     76110FQZ9     1,084,400.00   1,079,365.60     7.000000  %        749.53
B-3     76110FRA3     1,952,351.82   1,943,287.86     7.000000  %      1,349.46

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  433,770,084.51   401,635,907.49                  4,750,717.13
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1        96,158.15    525,215.54            0.00       0.00     16,668,659.16
A-2       732,821.64  4,128,433.28            0.00       0.00    131,917,768.82
A-3       464,455.24    464,455.24            0.00       0.00     82,584,000.00
A-4       177,363.89    845,547.83            0.00       0.00     33,700,852.98
A-5       109,223.21    109,223.21            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-6        60,518.44    294,869.58            0.00       0.00     11,685,171.62
A-7       505,977.53    505,977.53            0.00       0.00     86,753,900.00
A-8             0.00        276.96            0.00       0.00        136,892.77
A-9-1     249,266.54    249,266.54            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-9-2      77,607.31     77,607.31            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       100,725.81    112,718.58            0.00       0.00     17,258,254.76
M-2        31,476.09     35,223.75            0.00       0.00      5,393,080.28
M-3        31,476.09     35,223.75            0.00       0.00      5,393,080.28
B-1        13,849.59     15,498.57            0.00       0.00      2,372,975.22
B-2         6,295.22      7,044.75            0.00       0.00      1,078,616.07
B-3        11,333.90     12,683.36            0.00       0.00      1,941,938.40

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        2,668,548.65  7,419,265.78            0.00       0.00    396,885,190.36
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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     854.885828   21.452869     4.807908    26.260777   0.000000  833.432958
A-2     854.885827   21.452869     4.629837    26.082706   0.000000  833.432958
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624034     5.624034   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4     883.776119   17.181890     4.560790    21.742680   0.000000  866.594229
A-5       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-6     882.617061   17.353238     4.481271    21.834509   0.000000  865.263823
A-7    1000.000000    0.000000     5.832332     5.832332   0.000000 1000.000000
A-8     988.734018    1.996357     0.000000     1.996357   0.000000  986.737661
A-9-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-9-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
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     995.357420    0.691194     5.805255     6.496449   0.000000  994.666226
M-2     995.357422    0.691195     5.805255     6.496450   0.000000  994.666227
M-3     995.357422    0.691195     5.805255     6.496450   0.000000  994.666227
B-1     995.357421    0.691193     5.805252     6.496445   0.000000  994.666228
B-2     995.357433    0.691193     5.805256     6.496449   0.000000  994.666239
B-3     995.357415    0.691192     5.805255     6.496447   0.000000  994.666217

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       83,276.91
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       70,943.56
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    54   6,499,252.92

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                   15   2,181,252.37

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          3     215,758.63


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             7
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        648,312.30

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     396,885,190.36

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        3,331

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                    4,471,760.66

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         91.66593120 %     6.98978600 %    1.34428260 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            91.57200040 %     7.06612794 %    1.35943360 %

      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                          8.25299096
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              347.70

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                91.49667175

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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   115,517,963.00 107,793,226.64     6.500000  %  1,374,752.29
A-2     76110FRC9    34,880,737.00  28,702,578.73     6.500000  %    360,715.02
A-3-1                         0.00           0.00     1.258527  %          0.00
A-3-2                         0.00           0.00     1.025261  %          0.00
R       76110FRE5           100.00           0.00     6.500000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FRF2     3,927,000.00   3,842,034.98     6.500000  %     12,565.12
M-2     76110FRG0       785,100.00     768,113.50     6.500000  %      2,512.06
M-3     76110FRH8       707,000.00     691,703.27     6.500000  %      2,262.17
B-1     76110FRJ4       471,200.00     461,005.05     6.500000  %      1,507.69
B-2     76110FRK1       314,000.00     307,206.26     6.500000  %      1,004.70
B-3     76110FRL9       471,435.62     461,235.59     6.500000  %      1,508.44

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  157,074,535.62   143,027,104.02                  1,756,827.49
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       583,414.59  1,958,166.88            0.00       0.00    106,418,474.35
A-2       155,348.38    516,063.40            0.00       0.00     28,341,863.71
A-3-1     116,087.18    116,087.18            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-3-2      27,532.13     27,532.13            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        20,794.43     33,359.55            0.00       0.00      3,829,469.86
M-2         4,157.29      6,669.35            0.00       0.00        765,601.44
M-3         3,743.74      6,005.91            0.00       0.00        689,441.10
B-1         2,495.12      4,002.81            0.00       0.00        459,497.36
B-2         1,662.70      2,667.40            0.00       0.00        306,201.56
B-3         2,496.37      4,004.81            0.00       0.00        459,727.16

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          917,731.93  2,674,559.42            0.00       0.00    141,270,276.54
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     933.129566   11.900766     5.050423    16.951189   0.000000  921.228799
A-2     822.877645   10.341382     4.453701    14.795083   0.000000  812.536264
A-3-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-3-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     978.363886    3.199674     5.295246     8.494920   0.000000  975.164212
M-2     978.363903    3.199669     5.295236     8.494905   0.000000  975.164234
M-3     978.363890    3.199675     5.295248     8.494923   0.000000  975.164215
B-1     978.363858    3.199682     5.295246     8.494928   0.000000  975.164177
B-2     978.363885    3.199682     5.295223     8.494905   0.000000  975.164204
B-3     978.363896    3.199673     5.295251     8.494924   0.000000  975.164244

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       29,723.64
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                         0.00

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       12,890.51
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    11     710,011.60

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    1     210,657.47

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          0           0.00


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             2
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        408,401.75

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     141,270,276.54

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,496

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                    1,289,066.94

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         95.43352380 %     3.70688600 %    0.85959020 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            95.39185550 %     3.74071074 %    0.86743380 %

      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                          7.98533800
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              166.52

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                89.93836969

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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-1   76110FRM7   135,006,400.00 117,009,205.07     6.500000  %  4,270,485.82
A-I-2   76110FRN5    59,732,445.00  59,732,445.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-I-3   76110FRP0    41,218,155.00  36,718,856.26     6.093750  %  1,067,621.46
A-I-4   76110FRQ8             0.00           0.00     2.906250  %          0.00
A-I-5   76110FRR6    64,868,000.00  64,868,000.00     7.000000  %          0.00
A-II    76110FRS4    75,203,000.00  70,670,362.58     7.000000  %    759,431.90
A-V-1                         0.00           0.00     0.901257  %          0.00
A-V-2                         0.00           0.00     0.694910  %          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  14,132,644.80     7.000000  %      9,896.19
M-2     76110FRY1     5,067,800.00   5,047,316.23     7.000000  %      3,534.31
M-3     76110FRZ8     5,067,800.00   5,047,316.23     7.000000  %      3,534.31
B-1     76110FSA2     2,230,000.00   2,220,986.46     7.000000  %      1,555.22
B-2     76110FSB0     1,216,400.00   1,211,483.38     7.000000  %        848.32
B-3     76110FSC8     1,621,792.30   1,615,237.12     7.000000  %      1,131.05

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                  405,421,992.30   378,273,853.13                  6,118,038.58
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-1     633,600.04  4,904,085.86            0.00       0.00    112,738,719.25
A-I-2     335,889.07    335,889.07            0.00       0.00     59,732,445.00
A-I-3     186,404.15  1,254,025.61            0.00       0.00     35,651,234.80
A-I-4      88,900.44     88,900.44            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-I-5     378,277.37    378,277.37            0.00       0.00     64,868,000.00
A-II      412,174.00  1,171,605.90            0.00       0.00     69,910,930.68
A-V-1     220,934.66    220,934.66            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-V-2      48,638.27     48,638.27            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        82,413.45     92,309.64            0.00       0.00     14,122,748.61
M-2        29,433.05     32,967.36            0.00       0.00      5,043,781.92
M-3        29,433.05     32,967.36            0.00       0.00      5,043,781.92
B-1        12,951.51     14,506.73            0.00       0.00      2,219,431.24
B-2         7,064.68      7,913.00            0.00       0.00      1,210,635.06
B-3         9,419.14     10,550.19            0.00       0.00      1,614,106.07

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,475,532.88  8,593,571.46            0.00       0.00    372,155,814.55
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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 
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-I-1   866.693765   31.631729     4.693111    36.324840   0.000000  835.062036
A-I-2  1000.000000    0.000000     5.623227     5.623227   0.000000 1000.000000
A-I-3   890.841821   25.901728     4.522380    30.424108   0.000000  864.940093
A-I-4     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-I-5  1000.000000    0.000000     5.831494     5.831494   0.000000 1000.000000
A-II    939.727971   10.098426     5.480819    15.579245   0.000000  929.629545
A-V-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-V-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
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     995.958055    0.697406     5.807854     6.505260   0.000000  995.260649
M-2     995.958055    0.697405     5.807855     6.505260   0.000000  995.260650
M-3     995.958055    0.697405     5.807855     6.505260   0.000000  995.260650
B-1     995.958054    0.697408     5.807852     6.505260   0.000000  995.260646
B-2     995.958057    0.697402     5.807857     6.505259   0.000000  995.260654
B-3     995.958064    0.697407     5.807856     6.505263   0.000000  995.260657

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       78,242.82
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                     8,266.61

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       42,221.24
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    45   4,913,268.30

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    4     363,613.39

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          2     398,911.45


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             0
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                              0.00

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     372,155,814.55

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        3,165

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                    5,853,167.83

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         92.26090200 %     6.40469300 %    1.33440550 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            92.13918370 %     6.50542367 %    1.35539260 %

      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                          8.18283200
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              348.60

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                91.79467854

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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   151,551,000.00 137,024,780.92     6.750000  %  2,388,701.11
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-6-1                         0.00           0.00     1.078847  %          0.00
A-6-2                         0.00           0.00     0.868828  %          0.00
R       76110FSK0           100.00           0.00     6.750000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FSL8    12,650,700.00  12,607,871.38     6.750000  %      8,828.44
M-2     76110FSM6     4,216,900.00   4,202,623.78     6.750000  %      2,942.81
M-3     76110FSN4     4,392,600.00   4,377,728.96     6.750000  %      3,065.43
B-1     76110FSP9     1,757,100.00   1,751,151.38     6.750000  %      1,226.21
B-2     76110FSQ7     1,054,300.00   1,050,730.70     6.750000  %        735.76
B-3     76110FSR5     1,405,623.28   1,400,864.58     6.750000  %        980.93

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  351,405,323.28   336,792,751.70                  2,406,480.69
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       770,627.80  3,159,328.91            0.00       0.00    134,636,079.81
A-2       427,067.11    427,067.11            0.00       0.00     75,936,500.00
A-3        98,340.20     98,340.20            0.00       0.00     17,485,800.00
A-4        74,038.32     74,038.32            0.00       0.00     13,164,700.00
A-5       381,251.18    381,251.18            0.00       0.00     67,790,000.00
A-6-1     225,037.11    225,037.11            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-6-2      62,573.45     62,573.45            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        70,906.71     79,735.15            0.00       0.00     12,599,042.94
M-2        23,635.57     26,578.38            0.00       0.00      4,199,680.97
M-3        24,620.37     27,685.80            0.00       0.00      4,374,663.53
B-1         9,848.48     11,074.69            0.00       0.00      1,749,925.17
B-2         5,909.31      6,645.07            0.00       0.00      1,049,994.94
B-3         7,878.46      8,859.39            0.00       0.00      1,399,883.65

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,181,734.07  4,588,214.76            0.00       0.00    334,386,271.01
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     904.149632   15.761698     5.084940    20.846638   0.000000  888.387934
A-2    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624003     5.624003   0.000000 1000.000000
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624003     5.624003   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624004     5.624004   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624003     5.624003   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-6-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     996.614526    0.697862     5.604963     6.302825   0.000000  995.916664
M-2     996.614523    0.697861     5.604963     6.302824   0.000000  995.916662
M-3     996.614524    0.697862     5.604965     6.302827   0.000000  995.916662
B-1     996.614524    0.697860     5.604963     6.302823   0.000000  995.916664
B-2     996.614531    0.697866     5.604961     6.302827   0.000000  995.916665
B-3     996.614527    0.697861     5.604958     6.302819   0.000000  995.916666

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-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                       69,991.35
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                    16,157.90

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       57,365.72
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    46   6,021,148.17

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    3     330,986.74

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          3     811,897.11


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             5
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        710,639.55

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     334,386,271.01

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,691

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                    2,170,647.46

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         92.46095090 %     6.29117600 %    1.24787330 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            92.41201170 %     6.33201458 %    1.25597370 %

      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                          8.10499210
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              350.64

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                95.15685986

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS6(POOL #  4301)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4301 
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB-1    76110FSS3    20,174,375.00  19,431,245.11     6.750000  %    285,970.08
CB-2    76110FST1    39,313,092.00  39,313,092.00     6.750000  %          0.00
CB-3    76110FSU8    13,813,906.00  13,813,906.00     6.750000  %          0.00
CB-4    76110FSV6    16,300,000.00  14,873,190.61     6.750000  %    549,062.56
CB-5    76110FSW4    20,500,000.00  20,500,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
CB-6    76110FSX2   136,500,000.00 130,424,430.11     6.750000  %  2,337,991.31
CB-7    76110FSY0    28,438,625.00  28,438,625.00     6.750000  %          0.00
NB-1    76110FSZ7    75,900,500.00  74,041,931.92     6.750000  %  3,036,681.54
NB-2    76110FTA1     4,494,000.00           0.00     6.750000  %          0.00
NB-3    76110FTB9     9,662,500.00   9,662,500.00     6.750000  %          0.00
NB-4    76110FTC7    10,000,000.00   9,294,605.86     6.750000  %    337,195.50
A-P     76110FTE3        57,464.36      57,239.36     0.000000  %         52.65
A-V-1                         0.00           0.00     1.026114  %          0.00
A-V-2                         0.00           0.00     0.790262  %          0.00
R                           100.00           0.00     6.750000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FTG8    13,075,500.00  13,039,501.47     6.750000  %      9,065.38
M-2     76110FTH6     5,029,000.00   5,015,154.52     6.750000  %      3,486.66
M-3     76110FTJ2     4,224,500.00   4,212,869.41     6.750000  %      2,928.89
B-1     76110FTK9     2,011,600.00   2,006,061.81     6.750000  %      1,394.66
B-2     76110FTL7     1,207,000.00   1,203,676.98     6.750000  %        836.83
B-3     76110FTM5     1,609,449.28   1,605,018.21     6.750000  %      1,115.85

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  402,311,611.64   386,933,048.37                  6,565,781.91
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB-1      109,256.14    395,226.22            0.00       0.00     19,145,275.03
CB-2      221,045.88    221,045.88            0.00       0.00     39,313,092.00
CB-3       77,671.50     77,671.50            0.00       0.00     13,813,906.00
CB-4       83,627.55    632,690.11            0.00       0.00     14,324,128.05
CB-5      115,265.43    115,265.43            0.00       0.00     20,500,000.00
CB-6      733,337.98  3,071,329.29            0.00       0.00    128,086,438.80
CB-7      159,901.98    159,901.98            0.00       0.00     28,438,625.00
NB-1      416,443.83  3,453,125.37            0.00       0.00     71,005,250.38
NB-2            0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
NB-3       54,346.07     54,346.07            0.00       0.00      9,662,500.00
NB-4       52,276.88    389,472.38            0.00       0.00      8,957,410.36
A-P             0.00         52.65            0.00       0.00         57,186.71
A-V-1     247,940.93    247,940.93            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-V-2      63,764.72     63,764.72            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        73,318.89     82,384.27            0.00       0.00     13,030,436.09
M-2        28,199.35     31,686.01            0.00       0.00      5,011,667.86
M-3        23,688.24     26,617.13            0.00       0.00      4,209,940.52
B-1        11,279.74     12,674.40            0.00       0.00      2,004,667.15
B-2         6,768.07      7,604.90            0.00       0.00      1,202,840.15
B-3         9,024.75     10,140.60            0.00       0.00      1,603,902.36

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,487,157.93  9,052,939.84            0.00       0.00    380,367,266.46
===============================================================================







































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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS6(POOL #  4301)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4301 
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB-1    963.164664   14.174917     5.415590    19.590507   0.000000  948.989747
CB-2   1000.000000    0.000000     5.622704     5.622704   0.000000 1000.000000
CB-3   1000.000000    0.000000     5.622704     5.622704   0.000000 1000.000000
CB-4    912.465682   33.684820     5.130525    38.815345   0.000000  878.780862
CB-5   1000.000000    0.000000     5.622704     5.622704   0.000000 1000.000000
CB-6    955.490330   17.128141     5.372439    22.500580   0.000000  938.362189
CB-7   1000.000000    0.000000     5.622704     5.622704   0.000000 1000.000000
NB-1    975.513098   40.008716     5.486707    45.495423   0.000000  935.504382
NB-2      0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
NB-3   1000.000000    0.000000     5.624432     5.624432   0.000000 1000.000000
NB-4    929.460586   33.719550     5.227688    38.947238   0.000000  895.741036
A-P     996.084530    0.916282     0.000000     0.916282   0.000000  995.168248
A-V-1     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-V-2     0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     997.246872    0.693310     5.607349     6.300659   0.000000  996.553561
M-2     997.246872    0.693311     5.607347     6.300658   0.000000  996.553561
M-3     997.246872    0.693310     5.607348     6.300658   0.000000  996.553561
B-1     997.246873    0.693309     5.607347     6.300656   0.000000  996.553564
B-2     997.246877    0.693314     5.607349     6.300663   0.000000  996.553563
B-3     997.246841    0.693312     5.607353     6.300665   0.000000  996.553528

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-98  

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
     MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS6 (POOL # 4301)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4301 
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       79,862.77
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                     2,774.97

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       60,464.01
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    45   6,027,625.38

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    9   1,588,550.31

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          6     674,086.89


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             0
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                              0.00

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     380,367,266.45

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,993

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                    6,296,782.12

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         92.98599030 %     5.75487800 %    1.24433850 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            92.88384520 %     5.85014706 %    1.26512810 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         182,918.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            8,046,232.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   4,023,116.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.04484500
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              351.67

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                94.54543579

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS7(POOL #  4311)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4311 
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB-1    76110FTZ6   172,668,000.00 165,623,424.56     6.750000  %  2,147,749.89
CB-2    76110FUA9    35,551,000.00  35,551,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
CB-3    76110FUB7    44,215,000.00  44,215,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
NB-1    76110FUC5    32,242,000.00  32,242,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
NB-2    76110FUD3    77,840,000.00  74,316,294.95     6.750000  %  2,654,637.81
NB-3    76110FUE1     3,780,000.00           0.00     6.750000  %          0.00
NB-4    76110FUF1    13,684,000.00  13,684,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-P     76110FUF8        73,404.89      73,169.19     0.000000  %         90.82
A-V     76110FUG6             0.00           0.00     0.965146  %          0.00
R       76110FUH4           100.00           0.00     6.750000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FUJ0    13,245,900.00  13,218,765.99     6.750000  %      9,194.23
M-2     76110FUK5     5,094,600.00   5,084,163.80     6.750000  %      3,536.26
M-3     76110FUM3     4,279,400.00   4,270,633.71     6.750000  %      2,970.41
B-1     76110FUN1     2,037,800.00   2,033,625.60     6.750000  %      1,414.48
B-2     76110FUP6     1,222,600.00   1,220,095.53     6.750000  %        848.63
B-3     76110FUQ4     1,631,527.35   1,628,185.20     6.750000  %      1,132.47

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  407,565,332.24   393,160,358.53                  4,821,575.00
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB-1      931,293.12  3,079,043.01            0.00       0.00    163,475,674.67
CB-2      199,901.69    199,901.69            0.00       0.00     35,551,000.00
CB-3      248,618.98    248,618.98            0.00       0.00     44,215,000.00
NB-1      181,338.27    181,338.27            0.00       0.00     32,242,000.00
NB-2      417,976.18  3,072,613.99            0.00       0.00     71,661,657.14
NB-3            0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
NB-4       76,962.75     76,962.75            0.00       0.00     13,684,000.00
A-P             0.00         90.82            0.00       0.00         73,078.37
A-V       316,124.16    316,124.16            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        74,331.20     83,525.43            0.00       0.00     13,209,571.76
M-2        28,589.05     32,125.31            0.00       0.00      5,080,627.54
M-3        24,014.44     26,984.85            0.00       0.00      4,267,663.30
B-1        11,435.39     12,849.87            0.00       0.00      2,032,211.12
B-2         6,860.79      7,709.42            0.00       0.00      1,219,246.90
B-3         9,155.54     10,288.01            0.00       0.00      1,627,052.71

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,526,601.56  7,348,176.56            0.00       0.00    388,338,783.51
===============================================================================

















































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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS7(POOL #  4311)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4311 
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB-1    959.201616   12.438610     5.393548    17.832158   0.000000  946.763006
CB-2   1000.000000    0.000000     5.622955     5.622955   0.000000 1000.000000
CB-3   1000.000000    0.000000     5.622956     5.622956   0.000000 1000.000000
NB-1   1000.000000    0.000000     5.624287     5.624287   0.000000 1000.000000
NB-2    954.731436   34.103775     5.369684    39.473459   0.000000  920.627661
NB-3      0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
NB-4   1000.000000    0.000000     5.624287     5.624287   0.000000 1000.000000
A-P     996.789042    1.237197     0.000000     1.237197   0.000000  995.551846
A-V       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     997.951516    0.694119     5.611638     6.305757   0.000000  997.257397
M-2     997.951517    0.694119     5.611638     6.305757   0.000000  997.257398
M-3     997.951514    0.694118     5.611637     6.305755   0.000000  997.257396
B-1     997.951516    0.694121     5.611635     6.305756   0.000000  997.257395
B-2     997.951521    0.694119     5.611639     6.305758   0.000000  997.257402
B-3     997.951521    0.694116     5.611637     6.305753   0.000000  997.257392

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-98  

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
     MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS7 (POOL # 4311)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4311 
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       81,390.11
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                    11,083.80

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       71,570.51
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    61   8,570,733.99

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    7     599,505.92

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          3     357,881.81


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             1
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                        238,000.00

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     388,338,783.51

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,833

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                    4,548,117.43

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         92.99811430 %     5.74156700 %    1.24170870 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            92.93360890 %     5.80881013 %    1.25648770 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         167,865.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            8,151,307.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   4,075,653.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.04162300
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              352.65

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                95.28258485

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS8(POOL #  4306)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4306 
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB      76110FTN3   124,454,000.00 120,790,872.75     6.500000  %  1,487,135.85
NB      76110FTP8    41,430,000.00  40,959,878.65     6.500000  %    473,795.08
A-P     76110FTQ6        63,383.01      62,674.31     0.000000  %        221.08
A-V     76110FTV5             0.00           0.00     0.943478  %          0.00
R       76110FTR4           100.00           0.00     6.500000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FTS2     4,507,000.00   4,465,087.70     6.500000  %     14,121.80
M-2     76110FTT0       780,000.00     772,746.49     6.500000  %      2,443.98
M-3     76110FTU7       693,500.00     687,050.88     6.500000  %      2,172.95
B-1     76110FTW3       520,000.00     515,164.32     6.500000  %      1,629.32
B-2     76110FTX1       433,500.00     429,468.72     6.500000  %      1,358.29
B-3     76110FTY9       433,464.63     429,433.68     6.500000  %      1,358.18

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                  173,314,947.64   169,112,377.50                  1,984,236.53
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB        653,844.83  2,140,980.68            0.00       0.00    119,303,736.90
NB        221,717.13    695,512.21            0.00       0.00     40,486,083.57
A-P             0.00        221.08            0.00       0.00         62,453.23
A-V       132,872.33    132,872.33            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        24,169.66     38,291.46            0.00       0.00      4,450,965.90
M-2         4,182.90      6,626.88            0.00       0.00        770,302.51
M-3         3,719.03      5,891.98            0.00       0.00        684,877.93
B-1         2,788.60      4,417.92            0.00       0.00        513,535.00
B-2         2,324.73      3,683.02            0.00       0.00        428,110.43
B-3         2,324.54      3,682.72            0.00       0.00        428,075.50

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1,047,943.75  3,032,180.28            0.00       0.00    167,128,140.97
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB      970.566416   11.949281     5.253707    17.202988   0.000000  958.617135
NB      988.652635   11.436039     5.351608    16.787647   0.000000  977.216596
A-P     988.818770    3.487993     0.000000     3.487993   0.000000  985.330777
A-V       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     990.700621    3.133304     5.362694     8.495998   0.000000  987.567318
M-2     990.700628    3.133308     5.362692     8.496000   0.000000  987.567321
M-3     990.700620    3.133309     5.362696     8.496005   0.000000  987.567311
B-1     990.700615    3.133308     5.362692     8.496000   0.000000  987.567308
B-2     990.700623    3.133310     5.362699     8.496009   0.000000  987.567313
B-3     990.700625    3.133312     5.362698     8.496010   0.000000  987.567312

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-98  

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
     MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS8 (POOL # 4306)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4306 
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       35,085.76
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                     8,314.52

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       21,899.03
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    12   1,687,928.23

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    4     677,130.14

 (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                                                     167,128,140.97

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,684

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                    1,449,361.57

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         95.64690280 %     3.50351900 %    0.81251690 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            95.64490630 %     3.53390297 %    0.81986970 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         100,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            1,733,149.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,733,149.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          7.77238200
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              171.39

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                96.43030982

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS9(POOL #  4314)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4314 
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     76110FVL4    99,000,000.00  92,024,152.04     6.750000  %  3,168,392.27
A-2     76110FVM2    43,000,000.00  43,000,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-3     76110FVNO    60,000,000.00  60,000,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-4     76110FVP5    27,000,000.00  27,000,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-5     76110FVQ3    52,500,000.00  52,500,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-6     76110FVR1    36,500,000.00  36,500,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-7     76110FVS9    25,000,000.00  25,000,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-8     76110FVT7    10,405,000.00  10,405,000.00     6.393750  %          0.00
A-9     76110FVU4     3,469,000.00   3,469,000.00     7.818548  %          0.00
A-10    76110FVU2     7,590,000.00   7,530,682.02     6.750000  %     30,039.05
A-11    76110FVW0     7,500,000.00   7,500,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-12    76110FVX8    28,126,000.00  28,126,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-13    76110FVY6        77,829.78      77,696.86     0.000000  %         66.16
A-14    76110FVZ3             0.00           0.00     0.953826  %          0.00
R       76110FWA7           100.00           0.00     6.750000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FWB5    11,770,000.00  11,753,844.58     6.750000  %      8,181.22
M-2     76110FWC3     5,349,900.00   5,342,556.77     6.750000  %      3,718.67
M-3     76110FWD1     5,349,900.00   5,342,556.77     6.750000  %      3,718.67
B-1     76110FWE9     2,354,000.00   2,350,768.92     6.750000  %      1,636.24
B-2     76110FWF6     1,284,000.00   1,282,237.59     6.750000  %        892.50
B-3     76110FWG4     1,712,259.01   1,709,908.77     6.750000  %      1,190.17

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  427,987,988.79   420,914,404.32                  3,217,834.95
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       517,599.66  3,685,991.93            0.00       0.00     88,855,759.77
A-2       241,858.08    241,858.08            0.00       0.00     43,000,000.00
A-3       337,476.40    337,476.40            0.00       0.00     60,000,000.00
A-4       151,864.38    151,864.38            0.00       0.00     27,000,000.00
A-5       295,291.85    295,291.85            0.00       0.00     52,500,000.00
A-6       205,298.14    205,298.14            0.00       0.00     36,500,000.00
A-7       140,615.17    140,615.17            0.00       0.00     25,000,000.00
A-8        55,435.26     55,435.26            0.00       0.00     10,405,000.00
A-9        22,600.54     22,600.54            0.00       0.00      3,469,000.00
A-10       42,357.13     72,396.18            0.00       0.00      7,500,642.97
A-11       42,184.55     42,184.55            0.00       0.00      7,500,000.00
A-12      158,197.69    158,197.69            0.00       0.00     28,126,000.00
A-13            0.00         66.16            0.00       0.00         77,630.70
A-14      334,542.44    334,542.44            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        66,110.76     74,291.98            0.00       0.00     11,745,663.36
M-2        30,049.78     33,768.45            0.00       0.00      5,338,838.10
M-3        30,049.78     33,768.45            0.00       0.00      5,338,838.10
B-1        13,222.16     14,858.40            0.00       0.00      2,349,132.68
B-2         7,212.09      8,104.59            0.00       0.00      1,281,345.09
B-3         9,617.57     10,807.74            0.00       0.00      1,708,718.60

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        2,701,583.43  5,919,418.38            0.00       0.00    417,696,569.37
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
        MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS9(POOL #  4314)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4314 
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     929.536889   32.003962     5.228279    37.232241   0.000000  897.532927
A-2    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624607     5.624607   0.000000 1000.000000
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624607     5.624607   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624607     5.624607   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624607     5.624607   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624607     5.624607   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7    1000.000000    0.000000     5.624607     5.624607   0.000000 1000.000000
A-8    1000.000000    0.000000     5.327752     5.327752   0.000000 1000.000000
A-9    1000.000000    0.000000     6.515001     6.515001   0.000000 1000.000000
A-10    992.184719    3.957714     5.580650     9.538364   0.000000  988.227005
A-11   1000.000000    0.000000     5.624607     5.624607   0.000000 1000.000000
A-12   1000.000000    0.000000     5.624607     5.624607   0.000000 1000.000000
A-13    998.292170    0.850060     0.000000     0.850060   0.000000  997.442110
A-14      0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     998.627407    0.695091     5.616887     6.311978   0.000000  997.932316
M-2     998.627408    0.695091     5.616886     6.311977   0.000000  997.932317
M-3     998.627408    0.695091     5.616886     6.311977   0.000000  997.932317
B-1     998.627409    0.695089     5.616890     6.311979   0.000000  997.932320
B-2     998.627407    0.695093     5.616893     6.311986   0.000000  997.932313
B-3     998.627404    0.695093     5.616890     6.311983   0.000000  997.932316

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-98  

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS9 (POOL # 4314)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4314 
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       87,382.22
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                    18,832.39

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      119,612.70
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                   104  12,059,201.66

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                   22   3,806,443.28

 (C)  THREE OR MORE MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                          7     698,857.48


FORECLOSURES
  NUMBER OF LOANS                                                             0
  AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL BALANCE                                              0.00

SCHEDULED PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AFTER
DISTRIBUTION                                                     417,696,569.37

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        3,108

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                    2,924,846.91

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         93.39841960 %     5.33198700 %    1.26959350 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            93.35218460 %     5.36833223 %    1.27848520 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         183,581.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            8,559,760.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   4,279,880.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          8.03152143
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              353.90

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                97.59539527

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
       MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS11(POOL #  4319)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4319 
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     76110FWH2   112,117,000.00 109,847,473.25     6.750000  %  4,742,111.95
A-2     76110FWJ8    47,967,000.00  47,967,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-3     76110FWK5    67,521,000.00  67,521,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-4     76110FWL3    30,346,000.00  30,346,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-5     76110FWM1    45,610,000.00  45,610,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-6     76110FWN9    28,628,000.00  28,628,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-7     76110FWP4    16,219,000.00  16,219,000.00     6.444530  %          0.00
A-8     76110FWQ2     5,046,000.00   5,046,000.00     7.732352  %          0.00
A-9     76110FWR0    96,429,000.00  96,429,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
A-10    76110FWS8        62,872.89      62,785.39     0.000000  %         63.62
A-11    76110FWT6             0.00           0.00     0.907786  %          0.00
R       76110FWU3           100.00           0.00     6.750000  %          0.00
M-1     76110FWV1    13,198,800.00  13,189,681.79     6.750000  %      9,159.87
M-2     76110FWW9     6,000,000.00   5,995,854.98     6.750000  %      4,163.96
M-3     76110FWX7     4,799,500.00   4,796,184.33     6.750000  %      3,330.82
B-1     76110FWY5     2,639,600.00   2,637,776.47     6.750000  %      1,831.86
B-2     76110FWZ2     1,439,500.00   1,438,505.54     6.750000  %        999.00
B-3     76110FXA6     1,919,815.88   1,918,489.62     6.750000  %      1,332.34

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  479,943,188.77   477,652,751.37                  4,762,993.42
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1       617,740.36  5,359,852.31            0.00       0.00    105,105,361.30
A-2       269,748.15    269,748.15            0.00       0.00     47,967,000.00
A-3       379,712.40    379,712.40            0.00       0.00     67,521,000.00
A-4       170,654.35    170,654.35            0.00       0.00     30,346,000.00
A-5       256,493.27    256,493.27            0.00       0.00     45,610,000.00
A-6       160,992.97    160,992.97            0.00       0.00     28,628,000.00
A-7        87,081.81     87,081.81            0.00       0.00     16,219,000.00
A-8        32,506.56     32,506.56            0.00       0.00      5,046,000.00
A-9       542,279.98    542,279.98            0.00       0.00     96,429,000.00
A-10            0.00         63.62            0.00       0.00         62,721.77
A-11      361,249.94    361,249.94            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.00          0.00            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        74,173.75     83,333.62            0.00       0.00     13,180,521.92
M-2        33,718.40     37,882.36            0.00       0.00      5,991,691.02
M-3        26,971.92     30,302.74            0.00       0.00      4,792,853.51
B-1        14,833.85     16,665.71            0.00       0.00      2,635,944.61
B-2         8,089.60      9,088.60            0.00       0.00      1,437,506.54
B-3        10,788.85     12,121.19            0.00       0.00      1,917,157.28

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        3,047,036.16  7,810,029.58            0.00       0.00    472,889,757.95
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
       MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS11(POOL #  4319)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4319 
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
A-1     979.757514   42.296101     5.509783    47.805884   0.000000  937.461414
A-2    1000.000000    0.000000     5.623619     5.623619   0.000000 1000.000000
A-3    1000.000000    0.000000     5.623619     5.623619   0.000000 1000.000000
A-4    1000.000000    0.000000     5.623619     5.623619   0.000000 1000.000000
A-5    1000.000000    0.000000     5.623619     5.623619   0.000000 1000.000000
A-6    1000.000000    0.000000     5.623619     5.623619   0.000000 1000.000000
A-7    1000.000000    0.000000     5.369123     5.369123   0.000000 1000.000000
A-8    1000.000000    0.000000     6.442045     6.442045   0.000000 1000.000000
A-9    1000.000000    0.000000     5.623619     5.623619   0.000000 1000.000000
A-10    998.608303    1.011883     0.000000     1.011883   0.000000  997.596420
A-11      0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R         0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1     999.309164    0.693993     5.619734     6.313727   0.000000  998.615171
M-2     999.309163    0.693993     5.619733     6.313726   0.000000  998.615170
M-3     999.309163    0.693993     5.619735     6.313728   0.000000  998.615170
B-1     999.309164    0.693992     5.619734     6.313726   0.000000  998.615173
B-2     999.309163    0.693991     5.619729     6.313720   0.000000  998.615172
B-3     999.309173    0.693994     5.619732     6.313726   0.000000  998.615180

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DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-98  

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
           MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS11 (POOL # 4319)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4319 
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       99,024.37
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                    17,571.15

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                      230,519.13
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                   224  28,975,629.10

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                   25   3,121,816.45

 (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                                                     472,889,757.95

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        3,513

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                    4,431,267.28

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         93.72338310 %     5.02140400 %    1.25521310 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            93.66455960 %     5.06779139 %    1.26697670 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         158,980.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            9,598,864.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                  48,007,788.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          7.98515303
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              354.84

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                98.53036130

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS12(POOL #  4321)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4321 
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB-1    76110FXN8   188,037,444.00 188,037,444.00     7.000000  %    695,926.80
CB-2    76110FXP8     6,964,350.00   6,964,350.00     0.000000  %     25,775.07
NB-1    76110FXQ1    25,499,800.00  25,499,800.00     6.750000  %    154,938.96
NB-2    76110FXR9     7,423,000.00   7,423,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
NB-3    76110FXS7    21,430,159.00  21,430,159.00     6.750000  %          0.00
NB-4    76110FXT5     4,020,000.00   4,020,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
NB-5    76110FXU2    10,500,000.00  10,500,000.00     6.750000  %          0.00
NB-6    76110FXV0             0.00           0.00     0.350000  %          0.00
NB-7    76110FXW8    15,249,000.00  15,249,000.00     6.400000  %     81,000.79
NB-8    76110FXX6    20,899,000.00  20,899,000.00     6.100000  %     88,982.84
NB-9    76110FXY4             0.00           0.00     0.650000  %          0.00
A-P     76110FXZ1        58,061.92      58,061.92     0.000000  %         54.17
A-V     76110FYA5             0.00           0.00     0.860341  %          0.00
R-I     76110FYB3           100.00         100.00     6.750000  %        100.00
R-II    76110FYC1           100.00         100.00     6.750000  %        100.00
M-1     76110FYD9     8,802,500.00   8,802,500.00     6.750000  %      6,107.29
M-2     76110FYE7     4,001,000.00   4,001,000.00     6.750000  %      2,775.95
M-3     76110FYF4     3,201,000.00   3,201,000.00     6.750000  %      2,220.90
B-1     76110FYG2     1,760,300.00   1,760,300.00     6.750000  %      1,221.32
B-2     76110FYH0       960,000.00     960,000.00     6.750000  %        666.06
B-3     76110FYJ6     1,280,602.22   1,280,602.22     6.750000  %        888.50

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  320,086,417.14   320,086,417.14                  1,060,758.65
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB-1    1,096,646.60  1,792,573.40            0.00       0.00    187,341,517.20
CB-2            0.00     25,775.07            0.00       0.00      6,938,574.93
NB-1      143,431.04    298,370.00            0.00       0.00     25,344,861.04
NB-2       41,752.83     41,752.83            0.00       0.00      7,423,000.00
NB-3      120,540.15    120,540.15            0.00       0.00     21,430,159.00
NB-4       22,611.66     22,611.66            0.00       0.00      4,020,000.00
NB-5       59,060.30     59,060.30            0.00       0.00     10,500,000.00
NB-6        4,447.46      4,447.46            0.00       0.00              0.00
NB-7       81,324.97    162,325.76            0.00       0.00     15,167,999.21
NB-8      106,232.63    195,215.47            0.00       0.00     20,810,017.16
NB-9       11,319.87     11,319.87            0.00       0.00              0.00
A-P             0.00         54.17            0.00       0.00         58,007.75
A-V       229,450.80    229,450.80            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-I             0.56        100.56            0.00       0.00              0.00
R-II            0.56        100.56            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        49,505.38     55,612.67            0.00       0.00      8,796,392.71
M-2        22,501.68     25,277.63            0.00       0.00      3,998,224.05
M-3        18,002.47     20,223.37            0.00       0.00      3,198,779.10
B-1         9,899.95     11,121.27            0.00       0.00      1,759,078.68
B-2         5,399.05      6,065.11            0.00       0.00        959,333.94
B-3         7,202.13      8,090.63            0.00       0.00      1,279,713.73

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        2,029,330.09  3,090,088.74            0.00       0.00    319,025,658.50
===============================================================================







































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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS12(POOL #  4321)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4321 
_______________________________________________________________________________


AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB-1   1000.000000    3.701001     5.832065     9.533066   0.000000  996.298999
CB-2   1000.000000    3.701002     0.000000     3.701002   0.000000  996.298999
NB-1   1000.000000    6.076085     5.624791    11.700876   0.000000  993.923915
NB-2   1000.000000    0.000000     5.624792     5.624792   0.000000 1000.000000
NB-3   1000.000000    0.000000     5.624790     5.624790   0.000000 1000.000000
NB-4   1000.000000    0.000000     5.624791     5.624791   0.000000 1000.000000
NB-5   1000.000000    0.000000     5.624790     5.624790   0.000000 1000.000000
NB-6      0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
NB-7   1000.000000    5.311876     5.333135    10.645011   0.000000  994.688125
NB-8   1000.000000    4.257756     5.083144     9.340900   0.000000  995.742244
NB-9      0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
A-P    1000.000000    0.932930     0.000000     0.932930   0.000000  999.067070
A-V       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R-I    1000.000000 1000.000000     5.600000  1005.600000   0.000000    0.000000
R-II   1000.000000 1000.000000     5.600000  1005.600000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1    1000.000000    0.693813     5.624014     6.317827   0.000000  999.306187
M-2    1000.000000    0.693814     5.624014     6.317828   0.000000  999.306186
M-3    1000.000000    0.693814     5.624014     6.317828   0.000000  999.306186
B-1    1000.000000    0.693814     5.624013     6.317827   0.000000  999.306186
B-2    1000.000000    0.693813     5.624010     6.317823   0.000000  999.306188
B-3    1000.000000    0.693814     5.624018     6.317832   0.000000  999.306197

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-98  

Run:     11/02/98     12:11:22                                        rept2.frg
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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
    MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS12 (POOL # 4321)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4321 
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       66,660.48
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                    20,998.03

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       26,264.32
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                    23   3,490,056.48

 (B)  TWO MONTHLY PAYMENTS:                                    1     224,950.00

 (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                                                     319,025,658.51

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        2,204

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                      838,669.49

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         93.73186020 %     5.00005600 %    1.24994440 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            93.73242960 %     5.01320049 %    1.25345830 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         171,854.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            6,401,728.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   3,200,864.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          7.93789600
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              356.76

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                99.66860242

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
 MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1998-QS13(POOL #  4322)
STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
DISTRIBUTION SUMMARY FOR POOL#   4322 
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                       PRINCIPAL       CURRENT
                     ORIGINAL       BALANCE BEFORE   PASS-THROUGH    PRINCIPAL
CLASS   CUSIP       FACE VALUE       DISTRIBUTION       RATE       DISTRIBUTION
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB                  112,514,000.00 112,514,000.00     6.500000  %    511,707.37
NB                   37,758,000.00  37,758,000.00     6.500000  %    138,412.82
A-P                      53,454.22      53,454.22     0.000000  %        201.79
A-V                           0.00           0.00     0.853292  %          0.00
R                           100.00         100.00     6.500000  %        100.00
M-1                   4,083,000.00   4,083,000.00     6.500000  %     12,734.49
M-2                     706,500.00     706,500.00     6.500000  %      2,203.51
M-3                     628,000.00     628,000.00     6.500000  %      1,958.67
B-1                     471,000.00     471,000.00     6.500000  %      1,469.00
B-2                     314,000.00     314,000.00     6.500000  %        979.34
B-3                     471,221.05     471,221.05     6.500000  %      1,469.68

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  156,999,275.27   156,999,275.27                    671,236.67
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      REMAINING
            INTEREST         TOTAL         DEFERRED    REALIZED       PRINCIPAL
           DISTRIBUTION   DISTRIBUTION     INTEREST     LOSSES         BALANCE
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB        609,131.89  1,120,839.26            0.00       0.00    112,002,292.63
NB        204,415.47    342,828.29            0.00       0.00     37,619,587.18
A-P             0.00        201.79            0.00       0.00         53,252.43
A-V       111,580.09    111,580.09            0.00       0.00              0.00
R               0.54        100.54            0.00       0.00              0.00
M-1        22,104.68     34,839.17            0.00       0.00      4,070,265.51
M-2         3,824.88      6,028.39            0.00       0.00        704,296.49
M-3         3,399.89      5,358.56            0.00       0.00        626,041.33
B-1         2,549.91      4,018.91            0.00       0.00        469,531.00
B-2         1,699.94      2,679.28            0.00       0.00        313,020.66
B-3         2,551.11      4,020.79            0.00       0.00        469,751.37

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          961,258.40  1,632,495.07            0.00       0.00    156,328,038.60
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________________________________________



AMOUNTS PER $1,000 UNIT
_______________________________________________________________________________
       BEGINNING                                                        ENDING
       BALANCE    PRINCIPAL     INTEREST      TOTAL      DEFERRED       BALANCE
CLASS  FACTOR     FACTOR        FACTOR     DISTRIBUTION  INTEREST       FACTOR
_______________________________________________________________________________
CB     1000.000000    4.547944     5.413832     9.961776   0.000000  995.452056
NB     1000.000000    3.665788     5.413832     9.079620   0.000000  996.334212
A-P    1000.000000    3.775008     0.000000     3.775008   0.000000  996.224992
A-V       0.000000    0.000000     0.000000     0.000000   0.000000    0.000000
R      1000.000000 1000.000000     5.400000  1005.400000   0.000000    0.000000
M-1    1000.000000    3.118905     5.413833     8.532738   0.000000  996.881095
M-2    1000.000000    3.118910     5.413843     8.532753   0.000000  996.881090
M-3    1000.000000    3.118901     5.413838     8.532739   0.000000  996.881099
B-1    1000.000000    3.118896     5.413822     8.532718   0.000000  996.881104
B-2    1000.000000    3.118917     5.413822     8.532739   0.000000  996.881083
B-3    1000.000000    3.118876     5.413829     8.532705   0.000000  996.881124

_______________________________________________________________________________


DETERMINATION DATE       20-October-98  
DISTRIBUTION DATE        26-October-98  

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               RESIDENTIAL FUNDING CORPORATION (MASTER SERVICER)
                   RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC. (COMPANY)
    MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES 1998-QS13 (POOL # 4322)
                    STATEMENT TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
              ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION FOR POOL 4322 
_______________________________________________________________________________

SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY SUB-SERVICER                       32,684.59
SERVICING COMPENSATION RECEIVED BY MASTER SERVICER                    10,608.43

SUBSERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                       10,034.86
MASTER SERVICER ADVANCES THIS MONTH                                        0.00


                                                          NUMBER OF   PRINCIPAL
DELINQUENCIES:                                              LOANS      BALANCE

 (A)  ONE MONTHLY PAYMENT:                                     9   1,077,855.55

 (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                                                     156,328,038.60

AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LOANS IN THE POOL AS OF THE
DETERMINATION DATE                                                        1,410

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                      181,558.81

TOTAL REPURCHASES INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRIBUTION                            0.00

DISTRIBUTION PERCENTAGES:
                                     SENIOR        CLASS M        CLASS B
CURRENT DISTRIBUTION         95.71515520 %     3.45065300 %    0.80014450 %
PREPAYMENT PERCENT          100.00000000 %     0.00000000 %    0.00000000 %
NEXT DISTRIBUTION            95.74281530 %     3.45466071 %    0.80134680 %

      BANKRUPTCY AMOUNT AVAILABLE                         100,000.00
      FRAUD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                            1,569,993.00 
      SPECIAL HAZARD AMOUNT AVAILABLE                   1,620,356.00 

ENDING GROSS WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE                          7.67946600
ENDING WEIGHTED AVERAGE MATURITY, IN MONTHS                              174.74

POOL TRADING FACTOR:                                                99.57245875

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