🐐Title Underground: A Tragic Loss, Title Music, New Cyber Security Section & More 11-May-2025
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Inside this Edition:
🕯️Memorial
📜Title Archive: Educational Resources
🕵️♂️Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources
📻Your Title Playlist
⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
🤖AI, Automations other Tech for Title Insurance
👀Cyber Security & Fraud
🪄Magically Thriving Business💸: Resources to help you run and grow your business.
📅Events
🐐A Wicked Sense of Humor: Sunday Funnies
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In Memoriam: Wayne Michael Stanley
We are heartbroken to share the passing of Wayne Michael Stanley, a beloved leader and innovator in the title industry, who died on May 1, 2025, at the age of 38.
Wayne was best known to many of us through his work at the American Land Title Association, where he led communications and launched the influential Homeowner Outreach Program (HOP). Later, as the founder of Bowe Digital, Wayne became a champion for small businesses and title agencies across the country—bringing storytelling, strategy, and heart to an industry not often recognized for its creativity.
Wayne wasn’t just a marketer. He was a mentor, a community builder, and a friend. His work helped redefine how our industry communicates with the people we serve—and his impact will continue to ripple far beyond his time with us.
Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and the team at Bowe Digital who carry on his legacy.
Rest easy, Wayne. Your voice, your vision, and your kindness will not be forgotten.
📜Title Archive: Educational Resources
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🎥 The Fundamentals of Negotiating Subordination, Recognition and Non-Disturbance Agreements (MA)
📰CLTA Files Revised Guarantee Forms and New Endorsements - Effective April 17, 2025
📄Why Are More Real Estate Agents Turning to Digital Closings?
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📅Business Email Compromise ("BEC"): Wire Fraud, Seller Impersonation, Cyber Security Issues in Real Estate Transactions (On Demand Webinar - CLE)
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🕵️♂️Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources
🎥 The REconomy Podcast™: Has Market Volatility and Tariff Uncertainty Triggered a Housing Recession?
📰 Old Republic Announces Formation of a New Cyber & Technology E&O Insurance Company
📄Creative Financing Playbook: Unlocking Profitable Real Estate Deals Without Traditional Bank Loans: Chapter 1: The Creative Financing Mindset & Common Mistakes
🎥State suspends MV Realty's license, stopping business in Florida
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📻Your Title Playlist
Title and Escrow Get This Done
⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
Federal Agencies
Policy Changes and Impacts on Real Estate
🌍 Foreign Tax CPA: IRS to Eliminate Paper Refund Checks as of September 30, 2025
State Regulatory Changes
📰CLTA Opposes Legislation to Allow Disbursement of Escrow Deposits for Construction Costs (CA)
📰Risk of Superliens from Restitution Orders Eliminated by Amendments - Assembly Bill 1213 (CA)
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👀Cyber Security & Fraud
📄Title Industry 2.0: Harnessing AI, Data, and Cybersecurity for a Resilient Future
📰Texas title company employee sent to prison for orchestrating $350,000 real estate wire fraud scheme
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