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Pasco County man faces charges for trying to sell a home that wasn’t his, but not the way you'd think [Florida]
In 2015, Lisa Tamplin bought a house from a friend with the intention to rent it out. The extra income would help her care for her ill mother. Like many landlords, she created a corporation to manage the property. Her plan worked without a hitch until this summer, when a stranger filed false documents to try and claim ownership of her business and in turn, take the home. Tamplin was dumbfounded.
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National real estate fraud trend reaches Navarre [Florida]
Financial advisors rave about paying off debt, but sometimes being debt-free is being vulnerable. As more real estate transactions are being completed by email or overnight mail, without sellers meeting buyers in person, it’s become easier for criminals to target vacant lots owned by absentee or non-local owners.
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Matson settlement with LandAmerica estate gets judge’s approval
Federal bankruptcy court Judge Kevin Huennekens last week approved a settlement between Matson and the bankruptcy estate of the long-defunct Henrico-based title insurance company. The agreement effectively ends a legal scandal that began three years ago when Matson, a now-disbarred veteran Richmond attorney, was caught stealing millions of dollars from LandAmerica’s bankruptcy wind down fund while serving as the estate’s trustee.
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Fidelity National Financial, Inc. to Participate in KBW 2022 Virtual Title Insurance Day
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) ("FNF"), a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries and a leading provider of insurance solutions serving retail annuity and life customers and institutional clients through FNF’s wholly-owned subsidiary, F&G, announced today that Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer, and Tony Park, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in a virtual fireside chat at the KBW Title Insurance Day on Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Financial fraud legislation aims to combat real estate money laundering
In the last five years, an estimated $2 billion dollars of illicit funds have been laundered through the U.S. real estate market. A criminal enterprise this pervasive requires enhanced regulation and accountability to dismantle it.
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Legal drama complicates sale of Murray Hill hotel for veterans [New York]
Complicating the deal is a three-way legal battle involving the hotel; the next-door co-op, the Carlton Regency; and the original developers. The battle revolves around the land under the hotel, which the hotel leases, and how much rent is owed for that ground lease..
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Staten Island man sent to Rikers Island in $500K condo board feud; ‘A broken man’ says his wife
Something about New York’s legal system doesn’t seem right to Joseph Riccardi, who is jailed because he won’t spend up to $500,000 to meet the demands of his Staten Island condo board.
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Easements and the “Merger” Doctrine
Under California’s easement “merger” (merger of title) doctrine set forth in Civil Code sections 811 and 805, an easement (or servitude) is “extinguished” by “the vesting of the right of the servitude and the right to the servient tenement in the same person” and a servitude “cannot be held by the owner of the servient tenement.” In other words, if parcel A and parcel B have the same owner, then a prior easement across one from the other is usually extinguished.
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FinCEN Issues Final Regulation for Beneficial Ownership Reporting
On September 30, 2022, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) issued the first of three regulations to implement Section 6403 of the Corporate Transparency Act. FinCEN was created in 1990 to support law enforcement efforts under the Bank Secrecy Act to “safeguard the financial system from illicit use and combat money laundering and promote national security through the collection, analysis, and dissemination of financial intelligence and strategic use of financial authorities.”[1] This first regulation enhances recent updates to a number of sections of the Bank Secrecy Act and the Anti-Money Laundering Act, reflecting the Treasury’s efforts to address increasingly inventive means of sheltering illegal profit-making in U.S. real estate and business organizations.
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Real Estate Investors Sold Somali Families on a Fast Track to Homeownership in Minnesota. The Buyers Risk Losing Everything.
For Somali Muslim families in Minnesota, a contract for deed seems like an easier path to homeownership. But predatory practices and poor regulation can make it a financial trap rather than a good deal.
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Lawyer of Mandaue’s Register of Deeds nabbed for allegedly extorting money from client [Philippines]
A lawyer of the Office of the Register of Deeds in Mandaue City has underwent an inquest proceeding at the Office of the Ombudsman of the Visayas after he was arrested on Friday, Nov. 25, for allegedly extorting money from a client.
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When was the last time you checked on the paper records you put in storage somewhere? | |
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Hilario Marilao, M.D. recently became aware of a data breach incident involving a break-in of a locked storage cabinet in the locked basement of the office building. We first discovered missing documents on September 6, 2022, following a minor flood in the basement. We immediately investigated and determined that account ledgers had been stolen.
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Madorica Real Estate 2 – The Mystery of the New Property Review | |
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Do love watching those real estate programs on television, where someone buys a house at an auction and sets out to make it liveable after that? The state they sometimes encounter is scary. But nothing really scary like the manager encounters in Madorica Real Estate. When you take on this job, you are met with haunted houses.
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Two held in death of fellow squatter shot by elderly Vallejo property owner | |
Two suspects have been arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of a fellow squatter who was shot and killed by an 80-year-old property owner in Vallejo.
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Their Central Florida property was stolen and sold. It happens often | |
A Canadian couple was surprised to learn last summer that their Lake County investment properties had been sold. They’d owned the two single-family lots for over a decade, never put them up for sale, nor intended to part with the land. Experts say it happens increasingly often.
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Title Agents Take Business to the Next Level | |
We're here to make the process simple and profitable for agents interested in growing their business by expanding into multiple states. We offer you one point of contact to streamline your options and solutions.
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Yes, a Maryland law prevents Sheetz from selling cheap gas
Convenience chain Sheetz is running a sale on some of its gas. Unleaded 88 gas is selling for $1.99 per gallon, according to the company. But we came across a claim saying it would be illegal for Sheetz to sell gas that low in Maryland. Is that true?
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Giving thanks for a postcard that just arrived after a 101-year journey
Town letter carrier Viv Woodland knew something was strange the moment she tried to deliver the postcard. It wasn’t simply that the person it was penned to, Holland L. Smith, didn’t live at the listed Brattleboro address. The color of the sunny California orange grove on the flip side looked more like sepia. The stamp was purchased for a penny rather than the current 44-cent rate. And the postmark seemed to be a year old — from ’21.
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‘He kind of amps them up’: ‘Kevin’ the ringleader as turkeys terrorize Massachusetts town
It’s the time of year when millions of turkeys across the US might justifiably fear for their safety, but in one Massachusetts town the birds have turned the tables, ganging up to “terrorize” residents with pecks, kicks and loud clucking.
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Community care programs can help control cat colonies
A few things came to mind when I heard the name Trap King. What didn’t pop into my brain was animal rescue. Sterling Davis aka the Trap King relied on his clever word play in 2015 when he quit a career as a hip hop artist and hit the road to save cats.
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A Painting of a Crying Boy Was Blamed for a Series of Fires in the ’80s
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE night in Thatcher-era England, a home in South Yorkshire succumbed to a fire. The lounge room was charred black, drapes and furniture reduced to ash. The owners of the home, Ron and May Hall, lost nearly everything to the blaze, except one item: a painting of a crying boy, his wide eyes looking out from the wreckage, not even blackened by smoke.
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Cotswold Olimpick Games
The town of Chipping Campden, in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, has been holding their own “Olympic” games since the 17th century. Unlike regular Olympics, the Cotswold Olimpick Games includes a bunch of unconventional sporting events such as sledgehammer throwing, wheelbarrow racing, morris dancing, and the annual favorite—shin-kicking.
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