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Homeowners who signed up for quick cash say they didn’t know about 40-year commitment [Georgia]
A real estate company is offering metro homeowners a check for a few hundred dollars, but it comes with a four-decade commitment.
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Scammers hit the white-hot Summit County real estate market [Utah]
The Park City Board of Realtors office was rocked when a fraudulent property sale went through and another one was attempted in the last week.
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No More Debt - Homeowners are Leveraging Vesta Equity to Exit their Mortgages
Vesta Equity, an innovator at the intersection of financial services, real estate, and blockchain is pleased to announce that over $12 million US of home equity is available on its platform following the launch of its mortgage exit feature.
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ALTA Responds to Inaccurate Article by Boston Publication About Title Insurance
A recent segment and corresponding article from Boston NPR affiliate WBUR claims that the title insurance industry lacks regulatory oversight and is not transparent with consumers. Below is ALTA’s response to the article’s false and misleading allegations:
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A new investigation from WBUR shows that homebuyers in Massachusetts are paying hidden fees to lawyers by way of title insurance, which protects the buyer from certain legal challenges to their property title.
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Judges Can Make Up Real Estate Law As They Go [New York]
Courts are supposed to apply legal principles developed over the years in previous court decisions or through legislation. This creates predictability. It allows participants in real estate transactions—and their counsel—to know with reasonable confidence what the consequences of real estate agreements and deal structures will be..
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Second Circuit's Bright-line Rule Spells Trouble for Unsuspecting Lenders
Over the summer, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals answered the open question of whether the Bankruptcy Code’s automatic stay provisions are violated by the foreclosure sale of a property when the debtor is a named defendant in the foreclosure proceeding, even if the debtor’s interest in the property is only possessory, in the affirmative.
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Federal Court Affirms No General Duty for Title Insurers to Search For and Disclose Title Defects Unless Preparing Abstract of Title [Washington]
In the recently decided matter of Mansur Properties, LLC v. First American Title Insurance Company, 2022 US Dist. LEXIS 190201 (WD Wash Oct. 18, 2022), Plaintiff Mansur Properties, LLC (“Plaintiff”), purchased a parcel of land in Vancouver, Washington, with the intention of converting the land into a used car lot. Plaintiff obtained a title insurance policy from Defendant First American Title Insurance Company (“First American”). Post-closing, Plaintiff learned that a third-party neighbor (“the neighbor”) owned sections of the parcel that Plaintiff had intended to use for vehicle storage.
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Probate-Foreclosure Knot Untangled? [Illinois]
t’s not often that a modern-day court relies on case law from 1896, but it’s also not often that issues arising in 1896 are still uncertain modern-day.
In Estate of Topal, 2022 IL App (4th) 210613, the 4th District Appellate Court of Illinois confronted some longstanding friction between Illinois probate and Illinois foreclosure law. At issue was the impact on a mortgage lien of a probate statute barring “all claims” failing to be filed within two years of a decedent’s death.
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Chickens and Covenants [North Carolina]
The Kittingers moved into the Sleepy Hollow Subdivision in 2016, a planned community, and kept four hens in a coop located in their backyard. At the time, Sleepy Hollow had a restrictive covenant in place which specifically stated: No animals, livestock or poultry of any kind shall be raised, bred or kept on the building site, except that dogs, cats or other household pets may be kept, provided that they are not bred or maintained for any commercial purpose.
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25 years after the Delgamuuwkw case, the fight for land is more contentious than ever [Canada]
Twenty-five years after the Delgamuukw verdict was handed down, First Nations' leaders behind the historic case are still ruminating about how the land they fought for is still largely in the hands of the Crown.
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Daughter Sues Father For Dh3.3 Million After He Sold Her Property Without Her Consent [UAE]
Official court documents stated that the daughter filed a lawsuit against her father in which she demanded that he pay her Dh3.7 million - the value of the property he sold off without her consent. She also demanded another Dh500,000 in compensation for the moral and material damages.
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A Long Island village is prepping for months without internet. Is NYC ready, too? | |
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As people fret over the potential demise of Twitter, the Long Island town of Lynbrook is thinking bigger. The Nassau County village laid out a contingency plan earlier this year in case the internet ever goes out for months.
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Meet 'The Tenants,' The Video Game That Could Change What People Think They Know About Landlords | |
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Anyone who has owned or managed a rental property knows it takes a whole lot more than cashing rent checks. So even if newly released video game The Tenants isn’t the virtual equivalent of walking a mile in a landlord’s shoes, it carries the potential to add a little nuance to the public perception of the business — and asks the question, can this often-maligned profession get a little love?
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NYSLTA Hosts Title Tech Event | |
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More than 200 land title insurance professionals, attorneys, lenders and technologists attended the Title Tech conference on November 14th. The venue was the Frank Geary-designed Signature Theater in midtown Manhattan.
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A Hamptons Property Fight Over a Black Whaler’s Homestead | |
Property tussles in the moneyed enclaves of Long Island are nothing new, but the battle to preserve the homestead of Pyrrhus Concer raises questions of whose history gets to be honored.
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Directors of Florida’s Largest Homeowners Association Charged with Millions in Theft | |
Current and former Board members at Florida’s largest homeowners’ association were arrested Tuesday, charged with taking millions of dollars from the association over several years.
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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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The Female Spies Who Helped Win World War II
The Special Operations Executive (SOE), a top-secret espionage organization charged to “set Europe ablaze,” hired 39 women in total. These women jumped from planes, infiltrated communities behind enemy lines, and built up the French resistance.
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A Nineteen-Year-Old Dallas Rescue Dog Checks Off Her Bucket List
When Lauren Siler saw the sweet graying face of Annie, a nineteen-year-old black Lab mix, she couldn’t get the dog out of her mind. An animal lover in Dallas, Siler regularly fosters abandoned newborn kittens. “I honestly had no intention of ever fostering any other animals than the neonatal kittens,” Siler says, “until I saw Annie’s picture.”
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11 Tasty Regional Thanksgiving Food Words
There's no lack of fun Thanksgiving food words out there. There’s turducken, a linguistic and literal mash of a turkey, duck, and chicken, as well as its British counterpart, the gooducken, where a goose replaces the turkey. For dessert, there’s the cherpumple, one giant pie consisting of three regular ones: cherry, pumpkin, and apple.
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Belhaven Bridge
THE SEA FREQUENTLY THREATENS TO drown this forsaken bridge, whirling around its base and cutting it off from the land. But surprisingly, this strange “bridge to nowhere” actually does lead to somewhere.
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Research team finds secret inside abandoned Paris apartment that had been hidden for 70 years
Marthe was born in the 18th arrondissement and lived there during the first years of her life. She later moved to a Parisian apartment elsewhere, where she lived, happily and lavishly, until she passed away on August 29, 1939. Yet, what she left behind uncovered secrets that would shock a team of experts brought in to create an inventory of her belongings.
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6 Hoaxes People Actually Believed
On April 1, 1957, a BBC current events show called Panorama aired a segment that showed women picking spaghetti strands from trees in Switzerland. What was intended as a fun-loving April Fools’ Day segment turned into a bit of a kerfuffle as credulous audience members started wondering how they could grow their own pasta.
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