by Jeanne | Jul 25, 2020 | Closing, Education, Government Oversite, Industry News, Minnesota Land Title Association, Mobile Notaries, mortgage, Must Read and See, Notaries, Public Records, Real Estate Law, Recording of Legal Documents
New bill for Closers, introduced in the MN Legislature on July 20th entitled “REAL ESTATE DOCUMENT NOTARIZATION; APPEARANCE BY VIDEO AUTHORIZATION DURING PEACETIME PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.” This important bill for Closing Agents was introduced by the MN land Title...
by Jeanne | Jul 14, 2020 | BLM, Education, Must Read and See, NAR National Assoc of Realtors, Personal notes to friends
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...
by Jeanne | Jun 11, 2020 | Abstracting/Searching, ALTA, Education, GIS, Government Oversite, Industry News, Land Title Technical Stuff, Property Records Industry Assoc PRIA, Public Records, Recording of Legal Documents, Taxes
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...
by Jeanne | Jun 10, 2020 | Education, Minnesota Land Title Association, Mobile Notaries, Notaries, Online Education, Property Records Industry Assoc PRIA, Public Records, Ticor Title
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...
by Jeanne | Jun 10, 2020 | Education, GIS, Industry News, Land Title Technical Stuff, Property Records Industry Assoc PRIA, Recording of Legal Documents, Teaching Tools for Education, Title Technology
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...
by Jeanne | Jan 16, 2020 | Education
This is a short (13:42) video by Mark Wills that represents the basics of what it looks like to sit down with a customer at a loan signing. It the process is unfamiliar to you, this will give you a good picture of the notaries role and what the customer sees....