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Commercial 40 year searches - Steve/RI
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Re: Commercial 40 year searches - Robert Franco/OH
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Re: Commercial 40 year searches - marilyn snyder/FL
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Re: Commercial 40 year searches - Robert Franco/OH
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Re: Commercial 40 year searches - Jessica Talley/NJ
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Re: Commercial 40 year searches - PHILIP YIANILOS/VA
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Re: Commercial 40 year searches - John MacFarland/OH
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Re: Commercial 40 year searches - Alix Ott/MI
4/13/2009 9:36:05 AM (3016 views)
Re: Commercial 40 year searches - Robert Franco/OH
4/13/2009 10:07:13 AM (2904 views)
Re: Commercial 40 year searches - William Pattison /CA
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Companies in Maryland - Patrick/NY
4/1/2009 4:43:22 PM (2674 views)
Re: Companies in Maryland - Andrew Veliuona/MD
4/15/2009 10:27:25 AM (2679 views)

BLACKSTONE COMPLETE TITLE - Joan Howland/CT
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FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - eblas/NV
4/1/2009 3:07:19 PM (3108 views)
Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - Patrick/NY
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Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - EDMOND CENTENO/NV
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Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - Russ Frye/GA
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Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - Dan Zook/NY
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Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - Nils Nelson/ME
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Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - Patrick/NY
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Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - Helene /GA
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Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - charles jetter/OH
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Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - EDMOND CENTENO/NV
4/17/2009 11:05:40 PM (2884 views)
Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - Anthony BROWNN/VA
4/22/2009 2:32:41 PM (2805 views)
Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - Anthony BROWNN/VA
4/22/2009 2:37:41 PM (2815 views)
Re: FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS - Michele  Peele/NC
5/18/2009 8:42:12 PM (2867 views)

PA TIRBOP rate increase pending - Diane Cipa/PA
4/1/2009 9:10:17 AM (2960 views)


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Global Data Source Titleprep.com - Sherry Dungan/MS
3/31/2009 1:57:59 PM (3550 views)
Re: Global Data Source Titleprep.com - Andrew Veliuona/MD
3/31/2009 2:19:43 PM (3925 views)
Re: Global Data Source Titleprep.com - Edward Huguenin/SC
3/31/2009 8:45:19 PM (3369 views)
Re: Global Data Source Titleprep.com - Nils Nelson/ME
3/31/2009 4:25:49 PM (3411 views)
Re: Global Data Source Titleprep.com - Sherry Dungan/MS
4/1/2009 10:56:23 AM (3457 views)
Re: Global Data Source Titleprep.com - Dan Zook/NY
4/1/2009 1:09:07 PM (3311 views)
Re: Global Data Source Titleprep.com - Kenneth Signor/SC
4/1/2009 3:24:12 PM (3380 views)
Re: Global Data Source Titleprep.com - Carla Curry/KY
4/14/2009 9:31:35 PM (3162 views)
looking for MS abstractors - lisa lyon/MS
4/6/2009 12:44:15 PM (3075 views)
UPDATE Re: Global Data Source Titleprep.com - Sherry Dungan/MS
4/10/2009 1:24:14 PM (3571 views)
Re: UPDATE Re: Global Data Source Titleprep.com - HOPE DEZERN/SC
4/16/2009 9:09:56 AM (3257 views)

Mid-Atlantic Title - Charlotte NC - Kenneth Signor/SC
3/30/2009 6:26:57 AM (2675 views)

ACCURATE TITLE RESEARCH - t kay/VA
3/29/2009 10:45:44 AM (3348 views)
Re: ACCURATE TITLE RESEARCH - george Hubka/MI
3/30/2009 8:51:19 AM (3148 views)
Re: ACCURATE TITLE RESEARCH - Rita Killary/NY
4/6/2009 9:09:18 AM (2901 views)
Re: ACCURATE TITLE RESEARCH - george Hubka/MI
4/19/2009 9:14:57 PM (2789 views)

Interested in sharing client list with out-of-state abstractor - Mike Toebe/KS
3/27/2009 2:44:57 PM (3133 views)
Re: Interested in sharing client list with out-of-state abstractor - Scott Joest/IN
3/31/2009 12:30:48 PM (3189 views)

RELS sent work to ValuAmerica but no orders? What happened? - Mike Toebe/KS
3/27/2009 2:40:25 PM (3463 views)
Re: RELS sent work to ValuAmerica but no orders? What happened? - John Dokes/PA
3/31/2009 9:13:10 PM (2976 views)

"House Theif" - George Booth/OH
3/27/2009 7:58:56 AM (3542 views)

Lloyds of London - Constance Foye/VA
3/26/2009 2:04:49 PM (2917 views)
Re: Lloyds of London - Jessica Talley/NJ
3/26/2009 8:57:27 PM (3136 views)
Re: Lloyds of London - Kevin Ahern/CT
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Re: Lloyds of London - Michelle/IL
3/28/2009 2:21:15 PM (3035 views)
Re: Lloyds of London - Edward Huguenin/SC
3/29/2009 8:06:38 AM (2955 views)
Re: Lloyds of London - HOPE DEZERN/SC
4/16/2009 9:15:12 AM (2833 views)
Re: Lloyds of London - Michelle/IL
3/30/2009 3:18:55 PM (3117 views)

BRB Abstracting - R/WI
3/25/2009 8:40:37 PM (3484 views)
Re: BRB Abstracting - Robert Franco/OH
3/25/2009 10:23:50 PM (3394 views)
Re: BRB Abstracting - R/WI
3/26/2009 3:27:40 PM (3283 views)
Re: BRB Abstracting - William Pattison /CA
3/27/2009 11:28:46 PM (3136 views)
Re: BRB Abstracting - george Hubka/MI
3/30/2009 8:43:06 AM (3058 views)

Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - William Pattison /CA
3/25/2009 12:58:58 PM (2840 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - Clanci Nelson/OH
3/25/2009 2:22:52 PM (3226 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - Dan Zook/NY
3/25/2009 3:13:01 PM (3252 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - Clanci Nelson/OH
3/25/2009 3:22:26 PM (3358 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - Dan Zook/NY
3/25/2009 3:32:34 PM (3214 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - Jessica Talley/NJ
3/25/2009 4:57:11 PM (3361 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - William Pattison /CA
3/26/2009 1:16:30 PM (3240 views)

  While I understand the human impetus to "go with the flow", I don't like to be a part of the problem, but rather a step in a solution to ensuring transparent government and state functions.  Too often in history, people have stood by and been complacent when their elected officials and public servants have done the wrong things.  Nobody likes it when government spends our tax dollars unwisely, and this is nary different. 

  In this case, I was the intended victim.  The situation had the potential of victimizing my client too, had I not come prepared and taken reasonable, level-headed steps to assert specific rights that are clearly proscribed under the California Public Records Access Act and related federal statute. 

  I've always said that my firms' first duty is to ensure that the rights of our clients are upheld with us acting as vanguards of those rights (whether they are Civilly-proscribed or part and parcel to more fundamental Rights).  For that reason, my partners and I stay abreast of local ordinance, state statute, federal statue and case law.  A fundamental principle of American law is that nobody will assert your rights for you, you must know your rights and be willing to exercise them on your own behalf.

  I see no advantage in gaining "privileged" access, as all it takes is one honest firm to hold a public agency's feet to the fire and all those special perks go away quickly.  God knows that the law IS sufficient for anyone (including the "public") to get timely access to public records.  I doubt that your perceived advantage actually exists and would challenge any "networked" firm to compete with us in exercising our legal rights to accessing documents both in terms of speed and accuracy.  I cannot, in good faith, present my clients with data that is gleaned from "insider" sources when I have not done the work myself, and hence cannot attest to the accuracy, methodology and completness of some nameless bureaucrat passing me data under the table.

  Compromise is actually for the weak, IMHO.  The strong have the courage of their convictions to stand on the virtues of honest business and fair market competition. 

  I am surprised that any (allegedly) good business person would post the information that you posted about your firm.  I'm not sure as to how that information could be interpreted as a glowing testament to your practices, but to each their own. 

  I was neither ejected from the county, nor was I denied any rights that were mine to assert and exercise.  I stepped away with a victory that day.  If I had compromised or complied with harassment and walked away, I might have a client without a completed project and hence fewer funds to reward hard work by my own people.  My legal duty as an officer of my firm would not have been fulfilled.  I don't see that your solution is helpful in any way other than to empower these small dictators to act against the next poor public person to run across them in real life. 

 

 

 

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Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - Dan Zook/NY
3/26/2009 4:18:34 PM (3231 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - William Pattison /CA
3/27/2009 11:26:54 PM (2976 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - Dan Zook/NY
3/30/2009 10:08:12 AM (2966 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - george Hubka/MI
3/30/2009 8:05:45 AM (2845 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - William Pattison /CA
3/31/2009 5:09:30 PM (3047 views)
See... - Slade Smith/OH
3/26/2009 10:45:06 AM (3237 views)
Re: See... - george Hubka/MI
3/30/2009 8:07:37 AM (2962 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - J Nisonger/CA
3/27/2009 10:50:54 PM (3008 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - george Hubka/MI
3/30/2009 8:08:56 AM (2946 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - William Pattison /CA
3/31/2009 5:18:24 PM (2957 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - Alix Ott/MI
4/13/2009 9:59:45 AM (2796 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - J Nisonger/CA
4/13/2009 3:53:18 PM (2823 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - Alix Ott/MI
4/14/2009 4:06:01 PM (2826 views)
Re: Breaking New(some): San Francisco County Report - J Nisonger/CA
4/15/2009 8:31:54 PM (2876 views)

A.F.S. of Nevada - Dan Zook/NY
3/25/2009 11:05:44 AM (2563 views)
Re: A.F.S. of Nevada - george Hubka/MI
3/30/2009 8:12:06 AM (2820 views)


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