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[+] Jersey Shore 1910 - Leigh Attridge/MA (1 reply)
3/11/2011 7:38:53 AM (4448 views)

B of A creating a "Bad Bank" - CHARLENE  PERRY/MD
3/10/2011 3:53:40 PM (4142 views)

Enough is enough - Leigh Attridge/MA
3/10/2011 10:17:52 AM (2848 views)

[-] Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - Bruce Murch/VA (12 replies)
3/8/2011 7:05:26 PM (8878 views)

I have done work for Direct Title Solutions in Winchester, Virginia for about 3 years. I recently had a significant downturn in work. In fact, it almost disappeared, except for some judgment searches, recordings for searches I had not done, and deed retrievals (always for old deeds). Last week, they inadvertantly sent me a finished search by them THAT I DID NOT DO (it was intended for their client, not me).  It was for a 20-year foreclosure search that DTS only ordered a judgment search for from me.

I finally realized that they had gotten subscriptions to the online deeds (at $50 per month per county) in the 3 counties where I am online, and where I get the bulk of their work from. I confronted them with this. They denied it absolutely! They in fact, sent me an email chastising me for disloyalty for even thinking such a thing. They promised me that no such thing had occurred, and asked me to "ride out" this "slow season" with them, as their work was down 40% from this time last year.

I believed them. Sort of.

However, after speaking with all three Clerk's Offices, it turns out that DTS does have online subscriptions in all of those counties. Furthermore, I'm not alone, it turns out. As I began to have indirect contact with abstractors in counties outside my home area, some were accusing other abstractors of "stealing their work", not realizing that DTS itself had decided they would do all the gravy work and leave us only the work we actually take a loss on.

So, here's the Caveat: If you are contacted by Direct Title Solutions in Winchester, Virginia to do "abstracting", be advised that you will ONLY be getting the work that they cannot do with an online subscription in your counties: recordings, deed retrievals, judgment searches (if your county doesn't have 20 years of documents online).

Don't believe what they tell you! The only work that you will get is the stuff I already mentioned, with ONE exception. If a search turns out to be difficult, and there's no money in it. They wioll send THOSE to you. And that's the ONLY search work you will get from them.

Since I see no other posts about this, I may have been the first of their vendors to realize what they're doing, and I wouldn't have been certain myself, if I had not received the finished search intended for their client. I believed their lies, and I assume most of their other vendors had enough trust in them to believe it as well.

 

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Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - Sheila Sten/PA
3/8/2011 8:12:17 PM (4218 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - Leigh Attridge/MA
3/8/2011 9:33:11 PM (4345 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - Bruce Murch/VA
3/10/2011 6:53:52 AM (3838 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - Leigh Attridge/MA
3/10/2011 7:51:51 AM (3912 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - Beverly Murch/VA
3/13/2011 11:50:42 PM (3835 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - J Nisonger/CA
3/14/2011 9:40:59 AM (3648 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - john rutledge/VA
3/14/2011 10:28:06 AM (3769 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - Bruce Murch/VA
3/15/2011 9:30:21 AM (3741 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - F P/VA
3/15/2011 10:08:44 AM (3731 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - C/VA
3/23/2011 4:53:12 PM (3673 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - Beverly Murch/VA
3/30/2011 10:53:55 AM (3528 views)
Re: Direct Title Solutions - Deceiving Vendors - Bruce Murch/VA
3/30/2011 11:23:19 AM (3487 views)

[+] Stern's firm is DONE! - CHARLENE  PERRY/MD (21 replies)
3/7/2011 8:37:37 PM (5296 views)




[+] Genesis Servicing Corporation - Kristi Lee/NE (5 replies)
3/7/2011 1:26:28 PM (4272 views)

Cleveland Title Association March Meeting - Robert Franco/OH
3/7/2011 10:16:42 AM (2893 views)

Promised Relief Many Deeper in Debt - Leigh Attridge/MA
3/7/2011 8:09:35 AM (3919 views)

[+] Comment on "Scott County, Missouri Begins E-Recording, Several Indiana Counties to Offer Service Soon" - Source of Title/OH (3 replies)
3/7/2011 7:59:24 AM (2956 views)

End of the 30 year mortgage? - Leigh Attridge/MA
3/6/2011 1:45:46 PM (4158 views)

[+] Taos Land Grant Issues - Joyce/CO (2 replies)
3/4/2011 12:32:31 PM (8478 views)

HSBC SUSPENDS FORECLOSURES NATIONWIDE - CHARLENE  PERRY/MD
3/3/2011 12:32:40 PM (4551 views)

[+] Comment on "Another County Recorder Seeks Back Fees from MERS" - Source of Title/OH (10 replies)
3/3/2011 11:06:23 AM (3192 views)

[+] Just read this a moment ago. Virginia Bill allows signing of Electronic Notaries - CHARLENE  PERRY/MD (4 replies)
3/1/2011 4:09:13 PM (5903 views)

[+] What happens when you sue the b&#%@#$s - Alix Ott/MI (10 replies)
2/28/2011 3:01:34 PM (3518 views)


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