🐐Home Shortages, Hidden Tax Traps, Filing Deadlines & More
This Week in the Title Underground: It is tax season are you prepared? What does the housing market look like and will all be well? (11-January-2026):
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📜Educational Resources
🐐🎓 Mississippi Title Agents: Your Continuing Education, All in One Place
🌍 Foreign Tax CPA: IRS Publishes Finalized 2026 Form 8288 for FIRPTA Withholding
🎥 17 Title & Deed Questions Every Homeowner Asks (But No One Explains)
📄Served with a Subpoena: What Real Estate Professionals Need to Know
🎓 Artificial Intelligence in the Title Industry (MS) (CE) ($)
🎓 Back to Basics: Commitments (MS) (CE) ($)
📄New 2025 Notary laws address commissioning requirements and fraud prevention
🕵️♂️Underworld Intel
📄 Title Insurance Company Spared From Notary Overcharging Claims
📄 The truth behind those terrifying home title theft commercials scaring homeowners
📄 First American Financial Stock: Quiet Recovery Or Value Trap In The Making?
⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
National
📰 FHA builds record reserves against a gathering storm of delinquencies
📰 Fannie Mae fending off discrimination, defamation lawsuits
📰 HUD Report Uncovers More Than $5 Billion in Biden-Era Potential Payment Errors
🎥 FinCEN’s Current GTOs: What Real Estate and Escrow Professionals Must Know
🎥 FinCEN GTO Reporting: Covered Areas, Deadlines, and Key Timing Rules
📰 Trump threatens to ban Wall Street investments in single-family homes
State Regulatory Changes
💸Business Growth & Operations
📖 Book of the Month
Hydraulic Fracturing: A Guide to Environmental and Real Property Issues
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