"political junkie"

The New York head of nationwide title insurance company First American Financial Corp. has left under a cloud of suspicion over his conduct as an executive.

Steven Napolitano, the president, chairman and CEO of First American Title Insurance Company of New York, the wholly owned New York City office, left his postFeb. 15 after speaking with companyhonchos who flew in from Santa Ana, Calif.,

the conversation sure has changed

Every once in awhile I notice that the conversation has changed and I am so thankful.  For the last two decades every trade publication for the title insurance industry was all about joint ventures.  Every course offered was another way to beat RESPA and form some sort of affiliation.

I must say I don't miss looking at all that stuff.

At least if it's happening, it's happening in the dark where

"During this period we request that members do not commence foreclosures in MERS' name. If a member determines that it will commence a foreclosure in MERS’ name during this 90-day period, two weeks advance notice must be given to MERS to permit verification of the appointment and current status of the certifying officer proposed to participate in the foreclosure. No foreclosure may be

just deactivated my free Closing.com listing

I thought Closing.com was a nice platform for folks to find title agents until they put together a program to auto-fill Good Faith Estimates for mortgage lenders.

As I expressed to Dan, the nice fellow who called today from Closing.com, they are giving lenders a false sense of security and basically creating a platform which is about as reliable as ROBO-signing foreclosure plants.

Why is it

one of the soldiers of disaster apologizes

I was 22 years old when I decided to go into mortgage sales. I was finishing an undergraduate degree in criminal justice and had decided that I didn't want to go to law school as I had originally intended. I didn't have rich parents, and had never made any significant money, so I set out to find the highest-paying job someone with my limited qualifications could find.

At the time, my