🐐Title Underground: AI Surges in Title; Claims Avoidance, Option Agreements & More 31-August-2025

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📜Title Archive: Educational Resources

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• 🐐Tax Prorations in Real Estate Transactions - What Are They? Why Do We Need Them? and Other Questions from Title Processors, Closers and Escrow Officers

• 🌍 Foreign Tax CPA: FIRPTA Alert: IRS Notice 2025-45 (Effective Now)

• 📄The ABCs of Notarizing a Handwritten Document

• 📰CLAIMS AVOIDANCE - Fannie Mae Alert

• 📄How to Deed Property Out of an Estate in Texas After Someone Dies

• 🎥Understanding Option Agreements

• 🎙️Trust Transfers Trigger FinCEN Scrutiny: What Every Attorney Needs to Know

• 🎥What are Exceptions to the FinCEN Anti-Money Laundering Rule?

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🕵️‍♂️Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources

• 🎥🔒Texting Without the Risk: How to Keep Clients Safe (and Hackers Out) with Closinglock

• 🎙️Independence Title's Take on the FinCEN Anti-Money Laundering Rule

• 🎥REAL ESTATE LAWYER EXPLAINS: How Top Agents Close Deals Faster (Straight-Talk Method

• 🎥The Banking Trick Most Land Investors Don’t Know

• 🎥"Buyer's Revenge": Breaking Down the Wild Twists of the 2025 Real Estate Market

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⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates

• 📰Tenant Protections and New Lending Options Could Unlock the Manufactured Housing Market

• 📰Ginnie Mae poised to get first permanent president in over a year

• 📰One Big Beautiful Bill’s Impact on the Commercial Real Estate Sector

• 📰Pennsylvania Township to Provide 100% Property Tax Credit to Volunteer Firefighters

• 🎥Changes in Real Estate in California

• 📰Redfin identifies states that would most benefit if capital gains tax is eliminated

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📖 Book of the Week

Foreclosure Survival Guide, The: Keep Your House or Walk Away With Money in Your Pocket

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🤖PropTech, Cyber Security & Fraud

• 🎥AI in Title: Innovation, Risks, & Best Practices

• 📰Estate agent launches UK’s first AI post-viewings ‘podcast’ service

• 📄Top AI Questions Every Real Estate Executive Is Asking Right Now

• 📄Beyond filters: How AI is redefining property search

• 📄How to spot fake articles of association

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💸Business Growth & Operations

• 💸Zoom Keeps Logging Me Out: Here’s the Fix

• 🎥🔒Document Sharing in Real Estate has Become Messy, Fragmented — And Dangerously Exposed to Fraud - Closinglock is Teaching You How to Get Out of the Inbox and Lock Down Your Docs

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• 📄How to Build Strong Relationships with Real Estate Agents and Lenders

• 📄Real Estate Marketing That Actually Works

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