I read the article twice because I couldn't believe what I was reading the first time around.   Only someone who's never done a title could be so clueless.  I particularly loved the part where he said that anyone sitting at a computer for a short while could produce an accurate title.  I spent a fair amount of my day working on a two owner out of Suffolk County (Boston & environs) where the previous owner had been foreclosed on & the property sold to a developer who turned around & made a condo out of the building.  My final product was 87 pages long with a two page report consisting mostly of title issues & problems relating to the defective foreclosure docs & subsequent conveyancing  issues (eg.  foreclosure deed is to Wells Fargo Bank - deed out is from Wells Fargo Bank as trustee of the blah blah blah with a small handwitten note at the bottom of the deed stating that the foreclosure deed erroneously left off the trust information... but no worries there...)  I also spent some time talking to the staff up at the Essex North ROD trying to get them to send me a photocopy of an grantor index page.  Seems that when they scanned the indices they left many, many pages out, although there's no disclaimer on their website about that "gitch".    My only hope is that if the author of the Forbes article needs brain surgery that he'll decide that surgeons are charging too much & try to do it himself.  Happy weekend everybody!