🐐FIRPTA Refunds, Clearing Child Support Liens & How to Work with Designers
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This week, we’re excited welcome Kat Rogers with🌍 Foreign Tax CPA as a new guest author for the Wicked Title Knowledge Base.
If FIRPTA, foreign sellers, withholding certificates, or IRS timelines make your stomach drop mid-file, Kat is the calm, competent voice you want in the room. Her work lives at the intersection of real estate transactions and international tax compliance—where misunderstandings get expensive fast.
Kat will be contributing practical, plain-English guidance designed specifically for title professionals: what actually matters, what’s commonly misunderstood, and how to avoid turning a routine foreign seller transaction into a lingering problem after closing.
We’re thrilled to have her expertise folded into the Knowledge Base—right where it belongs: usable, searchable, and grounded in real-world transactions.
You can learn more about her work at
👉 https://foreigntaxcpa.com/
🌍 Foreign Tax CPA: Tax Season Reminder for Foreign Sellers: FIRPTA Refunds Aren’t Automatic! Each tax season, foreign sellers ask the same question: “Can I get my FIRPTA withholding back?” (Keep reading to learn the real answer…)
In real estate transactions, child support issues don’t announce themselves neatly. They can surface as recorded liens, judgment abstracts, insurance intercept notices, or automatic liens that are tracked entirely outside the land record system.
If clearing title is your responsibility, knowing exactly who to contact—and when—matters. This tool is designed to be the reference you reach for when a child support issue appears in search and time is already tight. (Get the look up tool…)
Drawing from decades of experience—and real-world stories from businesses like Carmichael Tree and Salted Herb Co—this episode exposes what cheap and “free” websites actually cost in lost time, stalled momentum, and missed revenue.
If you’ve ever felt confused, burned, or quietly resentful about a website you paid for, this episode is for you. (🎙️Listen...)
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🐐🎙️Check Washing Fraud Is Still a Problem: Here’s How to Protect Your Escrow Accounts - Title Agents, It’s Time to Lock Down Your Escrow Accounts. Check fraud is back—and it’s bolder (and grosser) than ever.
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