by Jeanine | Feb 21, 2014 | Abstracting/Searching, Education, Just for Fun, Land Title Technical Stuff, Real Estate fun, Source Of Title
How many squares are there in the picture below? Thanks to David Bloys, Title Guy out of Texas (posted on Source of Title) for this fun exercise. David says that 96% of the people who took this test failed it. Well, as what I consider a reasonable title abstractor...
by Jeanine | Jan 24, 2012 | Source Of Title
Today, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the RESPA case Edwards v. First American, which I will be reading shortly. At issue is not just RESPA; the broader issue is the power of Congress to enact laws which specify statutory damages, which...
by Jeanine | Jan 24, 2012 | Source Of Title
The white collar criminals who are attempting to profiteer from the foreclosure crisis are just like other white collar criminals… they just don’t get that they are criminals, just like pickpockets, burglars and muggers. Geoffrey Goldman, an...
by Jeanine | Jan 24, 2012 | Source Of Title
ALTA and the promoters of affiliated business arrangements seem to be a bit confused about the meaning of the word “independent.” The confusion is really nothing new. In a 1999 article, the Title Report quoted a past chairman of RESPRO who was...
by Jeanine | Jan 24, 2012 | Source Of Title
RESPA Section 8– the federal law that prohibits kickbacks and equivalent pay-for-referral arrangements between referrers of settlement service business and settlement service providers– is an immensely important law that is due for some attention...
by Jeanine | Jan 24, 2012 | Source Of Title
Back in 1981, ALTA’s president testified under oath to Congress that controlled business arrangements were “the functional and economic equivalent of kickbacks” and that “controlled business arrangements will have a greater adverse impact on...
