FBI raids Titleserv

The FBI raided Titleserv in Woodbury Wednesday morning, a little more than two weeks after the national title insurance agent closed suddenly.

FBI spokesman Jim Margolin said agents went with a search warrant as part of an "ongoing investigation." The search started at 8 a.m. and continued into the early afternoon, ending with agents leaving with boxes of records, he said.

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What? You think you should keep the $25,000?

We closed a transaction last month.  We made a mistake.  Everybody makes mistakes.  That's why you need to buy an owner title insurance policy.

Our seller is a local appraiser, a popular appraiser who has been in the business for a long time.  Our title search revealed two mortgages.  We got two mortgage payoff letters.  The mistake happened in the HUD-1 preparation.  For some reason someone

tsumani of defalcations? well, maybe not but there sure has been loads of them

I remember sitting down with a group of regulators a few years ago making an effort to help them understand this business.  One of my goals was getting them to embrace the concept that a title insurance agent handles millions of dollars with little or no oversight.  The most frustrating part of that effort was the assignment of regulatory authority and that the oversight for management of escrow

judge removes stay

FED LO compensation rule is in effect.

RESPANews if reporting LO compensation rule stalled by court

On the evening of March 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit stalled the implementation of the Federal Reserve’s loan originator compensation and steering rule. The court decided to delay the rule’s implementation until it could review the cases filed by National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB) and the National Association of Independent Housing