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[+] "Kevin" wants to help... - Patrick Furman/NY (5 replies)
11/10/2011 4:05:26 PM (3306 views)

[+] Abstractors A Go Go - new info - Jason Knowles/AL (5 replies)
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Attention please...for all New England area examiners - Leigh Attridge/MA
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To fix housing read the data - Leigh Attridge/MA
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[+] How a Financial Pro Lost his House - Leigh Attridge/MA (4 replies)
11/9/2011 1:23:53 PM (4900 views)




[+] Bridgewater Title - Payments - Russ  Kern/GA (13 replies)
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[+] Applied Technology Resources, Inc. - Cate Jones/NH (5 replies)
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Get Your Independent Foreclosure Review!! - Leigh Attridge/MA
11/7/2011 7:19:07 AM (3961 views)

Steven J Baum and NY Times - Rita Killary/NY
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[+] American Abstract - Lynn Rucker/VA (18 replies)
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[+] MORTGAGE CONNECT - anybody know them? - Bruce Murch/VA (5 replies)
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[+] Looking for advice on selling title insurance - Gerry Scott/TN (8 replies)
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[+] E & O Question - Wayne /OH (3 replies)
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[+] Jeaz... - Slade Smith/OH (4 replies)
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[-] Lost another one. - Dan Zook/CA (13 replies)
11/2/2011 1:31:09 PM (3511 views)
Re: Lost another one. - CHARLENE  PERRY/MD
11/2/2011 2:48:24 PM (4175 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Dan Zook/NY
11/2/2011 3:52:54 PM (4140 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Nils Nelson/ME
11/2/2011 5:44:57 PM (4158 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Brenda Summerlin/FL
11/7/2011 7:06:37 AM (3907 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Leigh Attridge/MA
11/2/2011 4:47:08 PM (4146 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Barbara Bennett/IN
11/7/2011 5:10:14 PM (3722 views)
Re: Lost another one. - ER/FL
11/16/2011 1:16:12 PM (4009 views)
Impossible - Bay Area Abstracting - William Pattison /CA
11/7/2011 7:56:15 AM (4023 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 (3790 views)
Re: Impossible - Bay Area Abstracting - William Pattison /CA
11/14/2011 12:24:43 PM (4038 views)
Re: Impossible - Bay Area Abstracting - Dan Zook/NY
11/15/2011 9:10:08 AM (3963 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Clayton Griffith/TN
11/7/2011 11:32:24 PM (3785 views)
Re: Lost another one. - Paige Dunn/GA
11/19/2011 12:29:38 PM (3764 views)


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