aba journal report
THE TRAP: My Boss Made Me Do It
When John B. Bowden started work as a managing associate for the Forquer Law Firm in Greenville, S.C., he was in for an unpleasant surprise. Bowden discovered that the firm was inflating government recording fees on settlement statements for HUD-1 real estate transactions. When he asked [...]
The MN Bar Association will host more than 1300 real estate professionals this year for its annual Real Estate Institute. The event, offered Friday through Saturday, November 9th and 10th at St. Paul’s RiverCentre, is in its 25th year, and will have a host of topics relevant to Abstracting and Title Professionals, including:
Updates [...]
For all of us in the mortgage banking and title industries, there is a great website that stays current on significant National Mortgage Banking operations. They watch as companies fold up, shrink-up, delete divisions that handle equity-line mortgages or high-risk loans, or make other substantial changes in the way they do their mortgage business.
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I was talking to a very seasoned contract title examiner recently (one who has been in the business of doing overflow exams during the refi-season as well as difficult sale exams for many years.) He works for a variety of Title Agents, who underwrite for each of the major underwriters. He was saying how difficult [...]
Her conversation went something like this:
“I should like this address to be corrected, please. The street name is wrong.”
“Your address isn’t 301 N. Ottawa?”
“No sir, the street is not Ottawa. The office is on Nottawa.”
“That’s what I said. It’s on N. Ottawa.”
“No, not on N. Ottawa, on Nottawa.”
“Didn’t I just say that?”
“No, you said N. [...]