🐐 This Month at Wicked Title…
We shared over 40 new job openings, 12 different industry events, regulatory updates across 14 different states, and did deep dives into your payment processing systems, major federal regulatory shake-ups, the trends and patterns that may shape your next business growth opportunites…
💸 Payment Processing
We took some deep dives into payment processing with:
Your Earnest Money Workflow Has Two Dead Zones from 🔒 Closinglock
A panel discussion called 🐐 The Last Mile Problem: Why Money Movement Still Slows Closings from delu❌e
How Title Companies Can Modernize Disbursements Without Disrupting Escrow Operations which was published to our Medium channel, so email readers, you might have missed this one.
Is it Time to Bring Your Payment Processing into The Digital Age?
Payload Wants the Closing Money to Stop Traveling by Anxiety
⚖️Regulatory News
CFPB Made a Lot of Waves with a Call for Comments on TRID Reforms
It actually started back in July when we ran:
as well as 🐐 TRID Data: Closing Costs, Consumer Confusion and Title Workflows
The final comment tally was 339, and I’m not talking 339 1-2 sentence comments either. Over 80 comments were full document attachments that had to be downloaded separately to review and generally spanned multiple pages. But, I went through it all for you, and summed up industry sentiment in:
For more deep dives into what the industry is asking the CFPB to do, I also published:
Who Wants What From TRID? The CFPB Comments Reveal Some Very Strange Bedfellows
TRID Reform: The 9 Things Title and Escrow Professionals Actually Want CFPB to Fix
Other regulatory news making waves this month included:
Home Equity Investment with the Home Equity Integrity Act at the national level and multiple state actions as well.
A few heavy weights filed briefs with court in favor of Fidelity’s fight with the FinCEN Real Estate Reporting Rule.
Over a dozen states made our Sunday regulatory round ups including: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
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🐐 Wicked Trends & Forces 🌳
The patterns worth paying attention to & opportunities for business growth…
We released our first full color, magazine style issue in both print and digital flipbook formats. This issue focused on The Risks, Market Signals, and Emerging Opportunities Hidden Beneath the Title Industry Headlines. This is just a summary of potential business opportunities and niche markets, it’s a primer on how I read the headlines, spot the patterns, and figure out what’s coming next. If you want to see the emerging market shifts before everyone else, you don’t want to miss this peak inside my process and the trends I see forming now.
Other trends, patterns and growth opportunites we covered this month included:
The Housing Market Is Still Stuck. Title Companies Are Making More Money Anyway.
Turn 1031 Exchanges Into a Business Line, Not Just a Weird File
Maybe Growth Isn’t More Closings. Maybe It’s Better Closings.
Growing your income as a notary by building your business or becoming a teacher.
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📜More Educational Resources
🎥 Underwriting 101: The Conveyancer’s Guide to Massachusetts Underwriting
📄 NON-JUDICIAL TAX SALES PURSUANT TO VIRGINIA CODE § 58.1-3975
📄 Common Types of Illegal Real Estate Deeds and How to Identify Them
📄 Residential Property Appraisals: Process, Costs, and Requirements
📄 How to Remove a Fraudulent Deed — Explains the legal process for challenging and removing a forged or fraudulently recorded deed.
📄 Land Court’s New Process Expedites Deregistration in Massachusetts
📄 How to Request HOA Documents for Escrow Officers: 9 Steps for Closing
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