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Steven J Baum and NY Times - Rita Killary/NY
11/6/2011 9:29:42 PM (2630 views)

[+] American Abstract - Lynn Rucker/VA (18 replies)
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[+] MORTGAGE CONNECT - anybody know them? - Bruce Murch/VA (5 replies)
11/3/2011 2:16:38 PM (7378 views)

[+] Looking for advice on selling title insurance - Gerry Scott/TN (8 replies)
11/3/2011 1:00:36 PM (3109 views)

[+] E & O Question - Wayne /OH (3 replies)
11/2/2011 8:10:17 PM (2913 views)


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[+] Jeaz... - Slade Smith/OH (4 replies)
11/2/2011 4:18:56 PM (4642 views)

[-] Lost another one. - Dan Zook/CA (13 replies)
11/2/2011 1:31:09 PM (3321 views)
Re: Lost another one. - CHARLENE  PERRY/MD
11/2/2011 2:48:24 PM (3639 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Dan Zook/NY
11/2/2011 3:52:54 PM (3626 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Nils Nelson/ME
11/2/2011 5:44:57 PM (3641 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Brenda Summerlin/FL
11/7/2011 7:06:37 AM (3379 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Leigh Attridge/MA
11/2/2011 4:47:08 PM (3620 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Barbara Bennett/IN
11/7/2011 5:10:14 PM (3194 views)
Re: Lost another one. - ER/FL
11/16/2011 1:16:12 PM (3476 views)
Impossible - Bay Area Abstracting - William Pattison /CA
11/7/2011 7:56:15 AM (3463 views)

   These fly by nighters come in and drop off radar quickly.  They get a six dollar search from India, pull a couple of maps from a computer index, toss in a copy of the online taxes and check the deeds for any other doc-references and then send it as a completed work to a client.  Deed copies are digital images.  They miss CC&R's as they don't search them out, they miss unpaid priors, they miss lot splits, they ignore easements, and they don't search dangling interests.  They operate on the premise that they report anything that can reasonably be found in the records by the layman who knows nothing of land titles, and so expect to never have a claim so long as they list the obvious stuff.

 These are opportunists who are no better than corporations sending jobs overseas, and they make everyone look bad as a profession.

  A week from now, the client will look and not find them in business.

  I dropped a client who wanted a full chain for three hundred fifty dollars last week in unincorporated county lands that was rail lines.  These P. U. lands are certainly not one hour searches or a day.  They can take a week and cost upwards of a couple thousand, so depending on the descriptions, $125 sounds like a massive bargain compared to what I usually charge.

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Re: Impossible - Bay Area Abstracting - john franz/NJ
11/7/2011 10:35:37 AM (3294 views)
Re: Impossible - Bay Area Abstracting - William Pattison /CA
11/14/2011 12:24:43 PM (3343 views)
Re: Impossible - Bay Area Abstracting - Dan Zook/NY
11/15/2011 9:10:08 AM (3470 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Clayton Griffith/TN
11/7/2011 11:32:24 PM (3258 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Paige Dunn/GA
11/19/2011 12:29:38 PM (3266 views)

[+] Interesting Reading - Kevin Ahern/CT (3 replies)
11/1/2011 10:54:12 AM (4520 views)

The Multistate Settlement Lottery: Bupkis - Leigh Attridge/MA
10/31/2011 2:07:55 PM (3992 views)

[+] Comment on "The Abstract Solution Announces Agency Platform" - Source of Title/OH (11 replies)
10/31/2011 9:54:22 AM (2857 views)

Is the jig up for MERS? - Leigh Attridge/MA
10/31/2011 8:27:00 AM (3977 views)

[+] Service1st, Service 1st, Service First, Valuenet - David Marks/VA (1 reply)
10/29/2011 10:31:22 AM (2931 views)

Mortgage regulator, Edward DeMarco, at home with criticism - Leigh Attridge/MA
10/27/2011 8:06:31 AM (3872 views)

[+] Comment on "Another Big County Goes After MERS Back Fees" - Source of Title/OH (1 reply)
10/26/2011 7:00:19 PM (2773 views)

[+] Rasa Solutions - Bridget Marinelli/PA (15 replies)
10/26/2011 10:41:11 AM (3431 views)


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