🐐Title Underground: Niche Goldmines, Avoid Landmines, Does the Deacon Sign the Deed?
This Week in the Title Underground (23-November-2025): Notaries guessing, feds progressing, underwriters stress-assessing, and the regulators still coalescing
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📜Educational Resources
📄Idem Sonans: Why Misspellings Don’t Invalidate Legal Documents
📄How to Calculate Notary Fees the Smart Way (With a Simple Worksheet)
🎓Abstract and Examination (MS) (CE) ($)
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🕵️♂️Underworld Intel
🌍Foreign Tax CPA: IRS Activity Resumes: Confirmed Updates on FIRPTA and ITIN Filings
🎥Amy Gregory, President of Florida Agency Network discusses company culture and expansion
📅 Webinar – Tax Sales in Mississippi: From Notice to Policy—Avoiding the Landmines – December 11, 2025
📄Mortgage borrowers still crave some hand-holding, survey finds
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⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
National
📢FinCEN Seeks Comments on Proposed Survey of the Costs of AML/CFT Compliance for Insurance Companies (Comment period closes Dec 1, 2025)
📢CFPB Seeks Comments on Proposed Modification of Equal Credit Opportunity Act (learn more) (Comment period closes Dec 12, 2025)
CFPB
FHA, Fannie & Freddie IPO
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💸Business Growth & Operations
📄Building Your Brand: How Title Agents Can Shine in a Competitive Market
📄7 Steps to Develop a Succession Plan for Your Title Company
📄Be Memorable, Not Mechanical: The Secret to Selling Yourself in Every Interaction
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🐐 This Wednesday’s Deep Dive:
Wire fraud isn’t slowing down, but the tools and tactics to fight it are getting sharper—and one vendor in particular has been quietly building a whole library of resources for the title industry.
This week, we’re digging into Closinglock: what it actually is (beyond the buzzwords), why so many title teams are adopting it as their “don’t-mess-with-my-escrow” shield, and the educational vault they’ve built to help agents stay ahead of fraud without needing to become cybersecurity experts.
If you want a one-stop roundup of wire-fraud training links, practical tools, and real-world case studies you can plug into your next team meeting, this is the one to bookmark.
Stay tuned—your closings will thank you.
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