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Opinion: Title insurance is vital to protecting the American dream

Housing Wire

As someone who spent a career in the title insurance industry – both as a builder of a title business and leader of the industry’s trade group, — I am proud of the role we play in helping to protect what most Americans consider the biggest purchase of their lives. Why is a title search necessary for refinancing?

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Purchasing & Developing Land - Part 2 - The Process of Purchasing Land

Eppraisal

In this posting, we will follow the acts of contract negotiation and legal settlement when undeveloped land changes ownership. Factors that affect sales price were noted in the previous installment: the presence of easements; distance to utility connections; and environmental circumstances, for example.

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ROV (Reconsideration of Value) Changes – FHA and GSEs

Appraisal Today

These policies were the result of a collaborative effort between the GSEs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). To read the Fannie document, Click Here My comments: What will happen to owners and buyers who cannot get insurance or whose costs will go way up?

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Appraisers: How and Why To Check Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Appraisal Today

National Counsel for Liability Insurance Administrators. There may be unrecorded easements or other issues that the appraiser would not and could not discover during the course of the inspection. However, while geographic proximity does not equal competency, proximity is advantageous for developing competency. Learn from peers.