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Where will you be? - Jay Duncan/MO
11/15/2004 11:18:15 PM (2607 views)
Re: Where will you be? - Robert Franco/OH
11/16/2004 3:27:06 PM (4041 views)

IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Mr. Donald Hall/NC
11/15/2004 8:58:08 PM (2791 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/15/2004 11:21:07 PM (4216 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Shannon Blatt/VA
11/15/2004 11:46:37 PM (4196 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Robert Franco/OH
11/16/2004 12:16:17 AM (4476 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Shannon Blatt/VA
11/16/2004 1:15:05 AM (4167 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/16/2004 1:38:06 AM (4096 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/16/2004 1:36:48 AM (4164 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - David Bloys/TX
11/16/2004 8:02:38 AM (4179 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/16/2004 8:46:45 AM (4444 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - kevin ahern/CT
11/16/2004 10:44:54 AM (4196 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - David Bloys/TX
11/16/2004 11:40:00 AM (4116 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Patty Bolden/TX
11/17/2004 11:41:19 AM (4099 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Slade Smith/OH
11/16/2004 9:52:39 AM (4100 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - David Bloys/TX
11/16/2004 11:28:41 AM (4089 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Jay Duncan
11/16/2004 8:08:01 AM (4144 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Kurt deVries/FL
11/16/2004 9:49:24 AM (4099 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Barbara Bennett/IN
11/16/2004 10:40:56 AM (4048 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - James Guill/VA
11/16/2004 2:08:45 PM (4066 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Michelle Bernard/LA
11/16/2004 3:15:52 PM (4168 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - monica froese/ME
11/16/2004 6:24:04 PM (4124 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/19/2004 6:48:00 PM (4353 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Robert Franco/OH
11/19/2004 10:10:35 PM (4125 views)
Re: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/20/2004 2:13:45 AM (4092 views)

JAY - Amy Holder/NJ
11/15/2004 2:42:39 PM (2627 views)
Re: JAY - Jay Duncan
11/15/2004 5:59:48 PM (4067 views)

HOME CLOSER - Patty Bolden/TX
11/15/2004 1:17:22 PM (2551 views)
Re: HOME CLOSER - monica froese/ME
11/15/2004 6:32:01 PM (4009 views)
Re: HOME CLOSER - Renee Washington/IL
11/16/2004 8:28:06 AM (3998 views)

first snow... - monica froese/ME
11/14/2004 6:52:26 PM (2500 views)
Re: first snow... - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/15/2004 11:06:50 AM (4009 views)




Contact Info for Frank Navarro, InfoTrack for Re-Bill - Oliver Chisolm, Jr/MS
11/13/2004 6:50:49 PM (2716 views)
Re: Contact Info for Frank Navarro, InfoTrack for Re-Bill - Julie Jasiunas/WI
11/14/2004 9:46:58 AM (4275 views)
Re: Contact Info for Frank Navarro, InfoTrack for Re-Bill - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/14/2004 10:58:56 AM (4170 views)
Re: Contact Info for Frank Navarro, InfoTrack for Re-Bill - Scott Aduddell/MO
11/21/2004 4:29:33 PM (4173 views)

Working together... (more) - Robert Franco/OH
11/12/2004 6:58:04 PM (3404 views)
Re: Working together... (more) - Robert Breakell/CT
11/12/2004 7:44:19 PM (4182 views)

Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/11/2004 5:13:40 PM (2583 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Shannon Blatt/VA
11/11/2004 7:56:04 PM (4193 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Robert Franco/OH
11/11/2004 8:19:39 PM (4091 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Robert Franco/OH
11/11/2004 8:07:52 PM (4085 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Amy Holder/NJ
11/12/2004 4:03:16 PM (4116 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/13/2004 1:04:38 AM (4068 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/13/2004 12:45:11 PM (4126 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/13/2004 4:48:50 PM (4114 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Jay Duncan
11/14/2004 7:22:57 PM (3992 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/15/2004 7:02:30 PM (3962 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Amy Holder/NJ
11/14/2004 10:09:11 PM (4127 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/15/2004 8:01:14 AM (4038 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Amy Holder/NJ
11/15/2004 1:25:27 PM (4026 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/15/2004 2:25:44 PM (3996 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/15/2004 3:02:01 PM (3915 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Amy Holder/NJ
11/15/2004 4:21:46 PM (4045 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/17/2004 1:01:51 PM (4002 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Amy Holder/NJ
11/17/2004 6:06:26 PM (3948 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/17/2004 11:22:10 PM (3928 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/20/2004 2:00:41 PM (4237 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/15/2004 2:19:01 PM (4009 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Amy Holder/NJ
11/15/2004 2:33:22 PM (3945 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Douglas Gallant/OH
11/17/2004 5:10:38 PM (3933 views)
Re: Should SOT Support Companies Doing Online Searches - Amy Holder/NJ
11/17/2004 6:58:48 PM (3892 views)

IF YOU LOVE YOUR FREEDOM, THANK A "GRUNT" - Scott Perry/PA
11/11/2004 4:09:57 PM (2585 views)
Re: IF YOU LOVE YOUR FREEDOM, THANK A "GRUNT" - Jay Duncan
11/11/2004 8:56:30 PM (3803 views)

Someone STOLE..... - Michelle Bernard/LA
11/11/2004 12:02:30 PM (2634 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - kevin ahern/CT
11/11/2004 12:22:25 PM (3922 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - David Bloys/TX
11/11/2004 12:32:50 PM (4099 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - kevin ahern/CT
11/11/2004 12:37:41 PM (4081 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - Robert Breakell/CT
11/11/2004 4:07:28 PM (4017 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - kevin ahern/CT
11/11/2004 4:41:34 PM (4029 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - Loretta Reed/MD
11/11/2004 4:17:13 PM (3929 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - Michelle Bernard/LA
11/11/2004 6:14:56 PM (4026 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/12/2004 5:18:23 AM (3881 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/12/2004 5:19:29 AM (3971 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - Michelle Bernard/LA
11/12/2004 3:15:05 PM (3908 views)
I found the - Michelle Bernard/LA
11/12/2004 3:19:37 PM (3982 views)
Re: I found the - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/13/2004 1:06:49 AM (4069 views)
Re: Someone STOLE..... - Michelle Bernard/LA
11/18/2004 4:03:59 PM (3816 views)

I am a Veteran - Jay Duncan/MO
11/10/2004 11:09:37 PM (2472 views)
Re: I am a Veteran - Michelle Bernard/LA
11/11/2004 6:16:33 PM (3876 views)
Re: I am a Veteran - Kurt deVries/FL
11/17/2004 10:51:42 AM (3968 views)
Re: I am a Veteran - Jay Duncan
11/17/2004 12:13:47 PM (3943 views)
Re: I am a Veteran - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/17/2004 12:54:55 PM (3970 views)

It is the soldier - Jay Duncan/MO
11/10/2004 10:40:58 PM (2372 views)
Re: It is the soldier - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/11/2004 3:01:31 AM (3880 views)
Re: It is the soldier - Jay Duncan
11/11/2004 8:40:24 AM (3737 views)
Re: It is the soldier - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/11/2004 10:39:56 AM (3800 views)

Skipjack - kevin ahern/CT
11/10/2004 5:00:03 PM (2602 views)
Re: Skipjack - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/10/2004 5:35:03 PM (3927 views)
Re: Skipjack - Jay Duncan/MO
11/10/2004 11:12:43 PM (3879 views)
Re: Skipjack - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/11/2004 3:09:58 AM (3821 views)
Re: Skipjack - Ellen Malloy/MO
11/11/2004 2:47:08 PM (4170 views)
Re: Skipjack - Jay Duncan
11/11/2004 2:57:11 PM (3810 views)
Re: Skipjack - Shannon Blatt/VA
11/11/2004 7:58:37 PM (3771 views)
Re: Skipjack - Jay Duncan
11/11/2004 9:02:34 PM (3740 views)
Re: Skipjack - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/12/2004 4:42:02 AM (3767 views)
Re: Skipjack - kevin ahern/CT
11/11/2004 6:15:54 AM (3820 views)
Re: Skipjack - Jay Duncan
11/11/2004 8:43:44 AM (3731 views)
Re: Skipjack - kevin ahern/CT
11/11/2004 9:12:46 AM (3808 views)
Re: Skipjack - Jay Duncan
11/11/2004 9:22:19 AM (3821 views)
Re: Skipjack - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/11/2004 11:09:53 AM (3779 views)
Re: Skipjack - kevin ahern/CT
11/11/2004 11:35:23 AM (3835 views)
Re: Skipjack - Donna Grady/NC
11/13/2004 10:25:23 AM (3766 views)
Re: Skipjack - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/13/2004 12:30:39 PM (3814 views)
Re: Skipjack - Scott Perry/PA
11/15/2004 9:26:48 PM (3693 views)

E&O insurance - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/10/2004 1:54:28 PM (3221 views)
Re: E&O insurance - Robert Breakell/CT
11/10/2004 7:41:02 PM (3677 views)
Re: E&O insurance - kevin ahern/CT
11/11/2004 6:04:14 AM (3678 views)
Re: E&O insurance - Robert Breakell/CT
11/11/2004 12:05:56 PM (3599 views)

Online services - Jimmy Smith/PA
11/10/2004 12:43:30 PM (2548 views)
Re: Online services - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/10/2004 2:08:39 PM (3720 views)

Dear Jimmy and JD - I am sorry that you have lost your business because of what is going on.  I certainly had to restructure my business to the changing markets.  In my case, I choose to increase my counties that include counties that are not anywhere near being online much less on a computer.  I have also increased my client base because no matter what company chooses to use the online services there are certain orders they cannot find nor can they actually complete the order depending on the type of search.  I have utlized this method waiting for "the walls to come crashing in" and I think that is happening.  Too many mistakes, too many errors and too much liability is catching up on everyone and everything.  I personally found 2 closings that occurred after 2 local attorneys had filed AJ on properties.  They are both going after the title companies.  That was a 100% defect rate by anyone asking me to see if there was a closing after their AJ was filed.  I try to do my part in letting my clients know that online searches are not many times "official public" records nor do they have the search capabilities we have at the courthouse in order to cross-reference all our work which picks up errors in indexing by name and also in many of my online counties - the only way we can pick up assignments and releases on a property.  For example, one of my counties - Collin county - is on the Collin county online site but is not even done by the county clerk's office - it is done by the appraisal district.  No certification date - it is not done by them.  This site contains so many errors I cannot even go to the extent of listing.  Anyone utilizing this online site has to be crazy when it has to do with depending on legal documentation and the drafting of it.  I have done test runs myself running a name and seeing what is displayed and then going to the courthouse - in every case, every time I found more at the courthouse - bar none - and that doesn't even include when I'm able to use the additional resource of running the property by the legal description at the courthouse - our cross-referencing capability to guarantee a good search. 

Instead of going out of business, some people have chosen to take part-time night jobs to supplement themselves through this adjustment time and while I have not had to go this route - I think because I never stopped marketing - I did go this route when I first started and was building my clientele.  I learned my lesson in yr 2000 when interest rates were so high no one was buying new homes.  Title fell in a matter of months to an all time flat - I learned to diverse my business to include other services and try and balance it accordingly thinking if this would happen to the economy this service would drop but the other services might increase during this time.  It's all part of being a business owner.  Always retain your professional standards, integrity and honesty - because what goes around comes around and I know that some of the companies that may have put you out of your business may end up losing their own in the process when push comes to shove and the errors show up.  When the lending institutions and title companies complain and find out it wasnt an abstractor or person physically doing the search at the courthouse it will come back on them and some of these companies one client may mean millions to them not like thousands to us.  There are also abstractors that have started the online searching because pricing has dropped so much because the thought was it could be done online.  I'm sure these are the ones that are coming up with the missed AJ's, etc.  To do the online search the abstractor risked their honesty and integrity because they knew better - they knew the courthouse had a much more sophisticated system and they too will be weeded out.  I believe that once the weeding takes place the volume of work will resume.

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Re: Online services - David Bloys/TX
11/10/2004 4:11:13 PM (3686 views)
Re: Online services - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/10/2004 4:47:35 PM (3811 views)
Re: Online services - Robert Breakell/CT
11/10/2004 7:28:19 PM (3765 views)
Re: Online services - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/10/2004 8:29:23 PM (3627 views)
Re: Online services - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/10/2004 2:08:40 PM (3645 views)
Re: Online services - John OConnor/IL
11/11/2004 1:00:53 PM (3628 views)
Re: Online services - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/11/2004 5:04:33 PM (3620 views)
Re: Online services - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/11/2004 5:04:34 PM (3609 views)
Re: Online services - Donna Grady/NC
11/11/2004 8:44:14 PM (3588 views)
Re: Online services - Lisa Ramsey/TX
11/11/2004 9:21:03 PM (3616 views)
Re: Online services - Judy Nisonger/CA
11/12/2004 4:55:29 AM (3561 views)
Re: Online services - Donna Grady/NC
11/13/2004 10:28:21 AM (3555 views)


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