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Title Business Takes Center Stage
Searching the land records and ensuring the findings is an important part of the lending process. It’s necessary to guarantee clear title to the property changing hands between buyer and seller. But it’s a back-office, somewhat rudimentary task that most take for granted.
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Once-in-a-generation tax revenues are flowing into western Colorado coffers. How will communities invest?
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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CFPB Takes Action Against Carrington Mortgage for Cheating Homeowners out of CARES Act Rights
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking action against Carrington Mortgage Services for deceptive acts or practices under the Consumer Financial Protection Act in connection with mortgage forbearances. The CFPB found that Carrington failed to implement many protections, provided to borrowers with federally backed mortgage loans who were experiencing financial hardship, during the COVID-19 public health emergency
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Chicago aldermen thwarted “deal killer” transfer tax hike
Chicago’s million-dollar property buyers dodged a “deal killer” bullet as the City Council failed to advance a tax hike that would have more than tripled their real estate transfer tax burden.
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Catching Up on Hot Topics
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, it’s time to catch up on a few of the hottest topics this column covered since the first of the year.
In a July Housing Scene column, I took apart an outfit called Home Title Lock for charging homeowners for “monitoring” their titles – which owners could do themselves, often for free – and for exaggerating the breadth of the crime.
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Can A Medallion Signature Guarantee Protect Your Property?
We are all familiar with commercials and ads warning real estate owners (“Owners”) of title theft. What is described as title theft occurs when a fraudster forges an Owner’s name on a deed transferring real estate to themselves, later mortgaging or selling it to acquire money. The good news is that stealing property through title theft is not as easy or as common as these commercials make it seem.
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A Montana ‘mountain man’ goes to court to protect his property rights
Wil Wilkins of Ravalli County, Mont., acknowledges he’s a bit of a throwback. Growing up in West Virginia, he says his mother used to tell him, “You was born a hundred years too late, boy.” It’s an apt description of this self-described “mountain man.”
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Examining The Waiver Of Recreational Immunity By Express Invitation After The California Supreme Court’s Decision In Hoffmann V. Young
In 1963, the California legislature became concerned that private landowners were “bar[ring] public access to their land for recreational uses out of fear of incurring tort liability." Thus, it enacted Civ. Code, § 846 to encourage private property owners to allow the general public to engage in recreational activities free of charge on their property, with certain specified exceptions.
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A Texas Fight Over Competing Leases
Texas law does not allow an oil and gas lessee to rely on a cotenant’s production to extend the term of the lease. Fort Apache and Short et al owned competing leases on 112 acres in Tyler County. The Southern Star lease expired because Fort Apache did not operate on the land during the primary term and could not rely on its lack of operations to extend the lease.
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Sixth Circuit Reaffirms Mortgagor’s Right to Excess Proceeds in a Foreclosure Under Doctrine of Equitable Title [Michigan]
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued an opinion reaffirming mortgagors’ post-foreclosure rights to the equity built in their mortgaged property after the creditor’s debt is paid in full.
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Court finds Loft Law doesn’t protect co-op shareholder from eviction [New York]
Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. has defeated an appeal by a cooperative shareholder arguing that he should be considered a tenant of a Brooklyn loft building and, therefore, exempt from paying maintenance fees or being evicted.
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Air Tanzania plane held in the Netherlands in row over land title
A plane belonging to Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) has been seized in the Netherlands after a Swedish firm won a $165 million award against Tanzania due to a revoked land title in the Bagamoyo sugar project.
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Some YouTube creators are dropping their sponsorships with Established Titles after company is accused of being a ‘scam’ [Scotland]
A handful of YouTubers are distancing themselves from Established Titles, a company that sells souvenir plots of land in Scotland, after a popular creator made a viral video calling the company a “complete scam.”
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My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop | |
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Thirty years ago last week—on November 25, 1992—my BBS came online for the first time. I was only 11 years old, working from my dad's Tandy 1800HD laptop and a 2400 baud modem. The Cave BBS soon grew into a bustling 24-hour system with over 1,000 users. After a seven-year pause between 1998 and 2005, I've been running it again ever since. Here's the story of how it started and the challenges I faced along the way.
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Compliance by Day... Heavy Metal at Night! Why Musicians Make Great Bankers | |
With the industry adjusting and teams seeking to grow or maintain by acquisition, there's a new pipeline of talent to explore. In this episode, FNF's Linda Grahovec welcomes Nathan Britsch, EVP of Compliance at Neighborhood Loans. Britsch provides a lender's perspective on the future of mortgage financing, qualification changes, being tactical versus strategic, and how chasing that bright shiny object works against us. Plus, tips on what your business should be doing and checking now while the pipeline is slower including creating efficiencies within your organization and for your customers.
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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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'He's become part of the family here': Cosmo the black lab serves as Durham Fire Department's emotional support animal
When firefighters return from a call and come back to Fire Station 13 at 2901 South Miami Blvd., a 2-year-old black lab named Cosmo helps them with the trauma they’ve just seen.'He's become part of the family here': Cosmo the black lab serves as Durham Fire Department's emotional support animal.
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The First Aircraft Accident Investigation
On 13 May 1912, a two-seater aircraft piloted by Edward Victor Beauchamp Fisher crashed at Brooklands, in England, killing both the pilot and his passenger, American millionaire Victor Mason. According to witnesses, the aircraft appeared to stall at about 100 feet in the air before diving towards the ground, where it burst into flames upon impact.
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Iceland's Loneliest Lighthouse
A CLUSTER OF SLENDER ROCK pillars jut out from the ocean’s surface like fingers stretching toward the sky, miles away from civilization. From a distance, it looks like a colorful speck has settled atop the largest one. Look closer, and you’ll see it’s a tiny red-roofed lighthouse, perhaps one of the loneliest in the world.
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The Most Mysterious Graves in the United States
Legends and mysteries haunt these 12 final resting places.
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The Many Intrigues of the Hamptons’ Most Secretive Island
Gardiner’s Island has long been the subject of local intrigue. It is the oldest and largest privately owned island in the country, a 3,318-acre mass between Long Island’s North and South Forks that is completely inaccessible to outsiders — even those who can see it from the decks of their East Hampton compounds. It was also the subject of a nasty little family feud that intensified following the death, in 1990, of its heiress co-owner, Alexandra Gardiner Creel.
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