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[+] County Indexing Systems - Jarrod Clabaugh/OH (7 replies)
8/15/2005 4:29:36 PM (2356 views)

[+] Naltea Clearwater? Oh Yeah! - Kurt deVries/FL (2 replies)
8/15/2005 12:15:36 PM (2212 views)

[-] Ever had this happen to you? - SHARON YAHRAES/ID (29 replies)
8/13/2005 5:27:40 PM (2301 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - J.T. Shoemaker/NY
8/13/2005 6:33:43 PM (2922 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Kevin Ahern/CT
8/14/2005 9:10:36 AM (4230 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Julie Jasiunas/WI
8/14/2005 11:01:55 AM (2835 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - David Bloys/TX
8/14/2005 1:14:49 PM (2862 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Kevin Ahern/CT
8/14/2005 2:51:52 PM (2883 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - J.T. Shoemaker/NY
8/14/2005 7:15:22 PM (2907 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Kevin Ahern/CT
8/14/2005 9:24:14 PM (2763 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - David Bloys/TX
8/14/2005 10:10:39 PM (2840 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Kevin Ahern/CT
8/15/2005 6:24:02 AM (2863 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - David Bloys/TX
8/15/2005 7:43:38 AM (2799 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Kevin Ahern/CT
8/15/2005 9:37:39 AM (2622 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - David Bloys/TX
8/15/2005 6:44:46 PM (2670 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Kevin Ahern/CT
8/15/2005 7:28:15 PM (2695 views)

Yes, you would still benefit if there were dividends to be paid from the growth of the business. I do not know how much that would be though.

These are all really great ideas that you have come up with. Stock exchanges are certainly something that could be considered. I am not a tax attorney, and I am not sure if there may be some tax advatage in doing it that way. However, that is something that should be considered. I know that with multi million dollar mergers very often part of the purchase takes the form of an exchange of stock. usually there is a valuation of the stock in question.

The big concern I have is as Robert pointed out below the level of participation by abstractors on this board. If we can not get enough involved to raise the required capital, the entire exercise becomes academic.

After reading some of the postings on this board though, I think things are reaching a critical stage. Our firm has held firm in our prices just as Lisa has indicated that she has. We no longer do business with a number of companies who wanted a lower price, and we have turned away other companies that wanted to haggle and offer prices that were sub market value. With the price of gasoline escalating, it is even becoming difficult to maintian the $50.00 rate for a current owner search. If we had to do the amount of driving that Lisa mentioned it would already be out of the question. A year from now we may no longer be involved in abstracting.Our firm is already moving into new areas to pick up the slack.
However, there may be other members of SOT that are not so fortunate.


There was something interesting on the news yesterday. Some of the local businesses in Connecticut have begun adding a gasoline surcharge to the prices of their goods and services. One of them (I think it was Dominoes Pizza) was adding $1.00 extra if you wanted your pizza delivered. This did not seem to raise any eyebrows. Yet, our clients do not seem to have gotten the message. They are still insisting on driving the market price to all time lows. If something is not done soon (such as what we are proposing) there may not be as many abstractors around next year to service their accounts.

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Re: Ever had this happen to you? - David Bloys/TX
8/15/2005 9:08:55 PM (3963 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Kevin Ahern/CT
8/16/2005 5:52:36 AM (2859 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - David Bloys/TX
8/17/2005 9:57:47 AM (3932 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Lisa Ramsey/TX
8/17/2005 10:09:42 AM (4072 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Scott Perry/PA
8/14/2005 6:01:13 PM (2839 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Kevin Ahern/CT
8/14/2005 6:55:39 PM (2828 views)
Thank you so much!!! - SHARON YAHRAES/ID
8/14/2005 10:23:17 PM (2805 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Spencer Kinsey/AR
8/15/2005 12:11:54 AM (2778 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Lisa Ramsey/TX
8/15/2005 10:07:07 AM (2606 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Robert Franco/OH
8/15/2005 10:04:06 AM (2575 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Lisa Ramsey/TX
8/15/2005 10:23:25 AM (2637 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Robert Franco/OH
8/15/2005 10:52:42 AM (2592 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Kevin Ahern/CT
8/15/2005 12:07:39 PM (2721 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Matthew DeLand/NY
8/15/2005 12:19:50 PM (2602 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Lisa Ramsey/TX
8/15/2005 12:25:46 PM (2659 views)
Re: Ever had this happen to you? - Matthew DeLand/NY
8/15/2005 3:13:32 PM (2693 views)

[+] Update to My Post of 08.05.2005 - Scott Perry/PA (1 reply)
8/13/2005 11:18:39 AM (2182 views)

Police Mortgage? - Kevin Horan/PA
8/12/2005 11:17:13 AM (1890 views)




[+] Next NALTEA Conference - Kevin Horan/PA (5 replies)
8/12/2005 11:09:01 AM (2183 views)

[+] New Interest - Gladys Brown/NC (4 replies)
8/11/2005 5:59:50 PM (2196 views)

[+] HELP PLEASE! Fee problem - J Nisonger/CA (2 replies)
8/10/2005 5:07:11 PM (2230 views)

Policy Manual - Wendi See/SC
8/10/2005 1:05:21 PM (1904 views)

[+] looking to expand - Gladys Brown/NC (6 replies)
8/10/2005 10:16:39 AM (2228 views)

[+] Thoughts?? - Michaela Urban/OH (7 replies)
8/10/2005 12:51:57 AM (2317 views)

[+] Invoices shorted - Sandra Morton/KS (24 replies)
8/9/2005 11:54:32 AM (2398 views)

Muchas Gracias, Roberto! - Scott Perry/PA
8/8/2005 9:57:19 PM (1929 views)

BANNED FROM SOT - VIVIAN SLYKER/OH
8/8/2005 4:01:14 PM (2107 views)

[+] HELOCS - Gladys Brown/NC (4 replies)
8/8/2005 3:43:56 PM (2261 views)


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