🐐 Caveat Emptor, Secret Tax Tempter, What is This Hidden Bias Allure?
This Week in the Title Underground (14-December-2025): Where title agents get tripped up. What annexation really impacts, and how to align your platforms, partners, and priorities now.
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🎄 Week Two: The Santa Goat Still Roams…
If you haven’t joined the annual December chaos yet, consider this your reminder: Super Title Goat is still dressed as Santa and hiding somewhere on www.WickedTitle.com.
Why go looking? Because finding him still unlocks 25% off a full year of Wicked Title access at the 2025 rate — and yes, you still lock in that rate for life.
A few readers have already spotted him (and bragged about it), but plenty haven’t. So if you keep meaning to upgrade “one of these days,” this is the nudge.
Go find the goat. Your future self — and your future closings — will thank you. Discount expires December 31st!
📜Educational Resources
📄How to Get Specific Performance on Real Estate Contracts in Texas
🎓 ALTA Surveys and Description Basics (MS) (CE) ($)
📄What Is Annexation in Real Estate? A Guide for Title & Escrow
📅Webinar: The Differences Between 1031 Exchange and 721 Exchange (Dec 17th, 2025, 1 - 2 PM MT)
📅Webinar: Slower Market, Smarter Closings – How Title Companies May Add Revenue with 1031 Exchanges (On Demand)
📄Beyond Chapter 117: Florida Statutes Every Notary Public Should Know
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🕵️♂️Underworld Intel
📄The New Age of Private Capital: How Family Offices Are Quietly Reshaping Real Estate Investment
📄Home prices go negative for the first time in over 2 years — and may stay that way for a while
Caveat Emptor! Have you ever heard that phrase? It is the legal principle of “Let the buyer beware.” One of the most overused phrases in real estate is “due diligence.” But here is an example of something that can go horribly wrong for someone who utterly FAILED to complete this process! Do you have any experiences of title problems or investor mistakes that happened because people didn’t do their homework? Drop a comment below. - Mark Nemetz, contributing author
Every title agent knows the holidays don’t begin until the surprises do. A roof crushed by a tree, delinquent taxes, unpaid loans, sewer bills, and—because the universe loves drama—an obituary. This song is your end-of-year anthem. Pour some cocoa, blast this parody, and remember: you are NOT the problem. December is. 🎄🔥
🎧 Listen now and share the jam!
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⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
National
🐐🎙️The Hidden Hand Behind Every Closing: How Federal Regulators Shape Your Title Business
🎥 FinSinners Part 2: Dirty Money in Real Estate and FinCEN’s Crackdown
📰 Suspension of Fannie and Freddie public data raises concerns
State Regulatory Changes
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💸Business Growth & Operations
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