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FAQ How to Complete Your Closing Agent License Application in MN

How to Complete the confusing MN Closing Agent License forms. It’s not intuitive. This guide will help you through the process and explain some of the “challenges” and confusion in filling out the form.

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Remote Ink-Signed Notarization, a Virtual Solution to a Covid-19 Problem

  The Minnesota Governor passed an Executive Order allowing Remote Ink-signed Notarization (RIN) during the Covid-19 pandemic. The law allows a notary to virtually witness a signature by having the signers provide a photo ID next to their face and state their...

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Be Sure To Check Out Our Online Classes

Click HERE for course descriptions for the following individual courses: Principles of Closing - Minnesota Closing Agent Pre-license course Principles of Abstracting (National Edition) Principles of Abstracting (Minnesota/Midwest Edition ) Title Exam for Title...

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FAQ – About these courses

FAQ's When Are Classes Available? Classes are available 24 /7 by computer, smart phone or tablet, and tech support can be reached at support@roundabouted.com.   Feel free to contact us with questions or comments at landrecs@aol.com on course content. Your Instructor...

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The settlement industry is moving to "independent contractors," paying them simply on a per closing basis. It cuts the overhead, fixes the ups and downs in the staffing market (especially like the post-Covid roller-coaster with rate changes with people working from...

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Watering Hole Scam Targets Settlement Providers

Just like animals flock to a watering-hole for needed water, there are times we all flock to the internet for need resources. We’ve become conditioned to just go there, and click, and get what we need. The Watering Hole scam is an internet search trick, where...

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FAQ -Abstracting, Searching and Land Records Management Class

Abstracting, Searching and Land Records Management. An up-to-date resource for County Recorders, Abstractors and Title Searchers and all who work with land records. Update your resume and knowledge of the Land Title and Property Records industry or prepare for the state Abstractor Licensing Exam. Learn the duties of each of the Public Offices – Recorder, Treasurer, Auditor, Assessor, District Court, Federal Courts and municipalities and their critical roles in searching and maintaining legal rights to our most important resource – real estate.

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KEY TO A SMOOTH CLOSING

There are a number of  newly licensed closing agents out there, and I often get questions on how to make a good impression with a smooth closing. So here are my tips.  Remember, everyone in a mortgage closing wants a smooth signing. Mistakes, no matter how small, can...

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Don’t Think You’re Biased? Try This

Say out loud, as fast as you can, the COLOR of these words. See. Our unconscious bias for reading overtakes our conscious effort to identify color. Our unconscious color bias also overrides our sense of humanity. Many of us deny we have bias. With BLM, bias is center-stage and I hope it will stay center-stage until we will address it and make life equitable for all. We all need to be active anti-racists and support the BLM Cause.

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“Modernized Land Records Part 1 – Land Records and GIS Overview” by PRIA

I just attended a PRIA session on Geographic Information Systems.  It was an excellent session.  My key take-aways were a look at our future and the future of land records:  current, accurate, connected. Easy and fun for users. An excellent presentation by a Wisconsin...

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Governor Asked for Executive Order for Remote Ink-signed Notarization Closings

The Minnesota Legislature approved Remote Online Notarization last year. The law has not yet been implemented, generally due to the inability for lenders, title insurers and county recorders/registrars to get on the same page with the technology. And there are some...

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PRIA puts up Draft: “GIS Toolkit – How to Get Started”

The Property Records Industry Association, which develops and promotes national standards and best practices for the land records industry is doing a webinar *Modernized Land Records Part 1 - Land Records & GIS Overview" on  June 11th at 2PM CST.  The panel...

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There’s a New Dog in Town -Real Estate Sales Licensing

There’s a new dog in town. We’ve added mobile friendly Real Estate Salesperson Licensing Courses 1, 2 and 3 to With content from some of the best educators in the country, we have joined The Real Estate Learning Group or TRELG for excellent content at a great price. Check out the Courses in Online Education.

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