🐐Title Underground: No Show Clients, Compliance Updates, RESPA Crack downs and more! 15-Dec-2024
The Title Industry News, Stories, Events, Resources and Podcasts You Won't Find Anywhere Else
Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources
🐐No-Show Clients on Closing Day? Here’s How Title Pros Keep Their Day on Track
🎙️Reshaping the Rules: The Impact of DC's Multi-Million Dollar RESPA Crackdown on Join Ventures
📄What Should You Expect For Multi-Factor Authentication In 2025 And Beyond
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Compliance Updates:
🐐Is Your Payment App Compliant? What Title Agents Must Know About the CFPB Rule
🐐Understanding the New FinCEN Real Estate Reporting Rule | Key Points for Title Insurance Agents
Remote Work and Compliance and Security: A Deep Dive for the Title Industry
All of North Carolina's Standard Real Estate Forms Changed in 2024, Learn What's Different
📢 FinCEN Requests Comments on Proposed Form for Compliance with Residential Real Estate Rule
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Announcements
📢Title Archive Now Available 📢
We now have a table of contents that will make it quick and easy for you to search the archive of the Wicked Title Forum for everything we've published on a given topic including a state specific search! Check it out here!
Full disclosure, many of the topics are still empty. But this will give you a peak at the large range of topics will be publishing every week all next year. Lots more tutorials, how to's, operations manual pages, tips, tricks and much more!
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📢 FinCEN Requests Comments on Proposed Form for Compliance with Residential Real Estate Rule
- Ends Jan 13th, 2025
In case you missed it: FinCEN Rule Changes & Title Insurance Compliance

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Wicked Insights: Crowd-Sourced Solutions
This week, the industry was asked…
Question:
What is, if any, your “late to closing” policy? We have SO many clients either no show/no call to scheduled closings or just show up 15-30 minutes late or just show up when they feel like it. So frustrating and throws off our entire day!!!
Answers:
Here is are the top 3 answers agents and other professionals across the country recommend…
1. Enforce a 15-Minute Rule
2. Send Multiple Reminders
3. Call and Confirm Before Closing
📄Read all the recommendations here!
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Upcoming Title Industry, Real Estate Industry, and Mortgage Industry events for education, networking, and business development…
December Events
NAR Legal Update & Realtors Property Resource
Who: NAR
When: Dec 18, 1pm EST
Where: Webinar
Who: Strafford
When: December 19, 2024
Where: Webinar
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A Wicked Sense of Humor
🎸 Rock Out with "5 Days of Closing"! 🎤
The holiday classic just got a title industry twist—and a serious dose of rock! We've transformed "12 Days of Christmas" into a bold, head-banging anthem about the chaos, quirks, and triumphs of title closings.
Perfect for title agents, escrow officers, and anyone who thrives under pressure.
Packed with humor, relatable moments, and a beat you won’t forget.
Turn up the volume and let the power chords carry you through your next closing!
🎧 Listen now and share the jam!
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