🐐Title Underground: Everyone is Talking about FinCEN! & 11 Clever Ways to Use ChatGPT 6-July-2025
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📜Title Archive: Educational Resources
🕵️♂️Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources
📖 Book of the Week
⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
📢Tips
🤖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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📜Title Archive: Educational Resources
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🕵️♂️Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources
📄Why Googling a Notary Isn’t Always the Best Option (And What to Do Instead)
📄Sue Yannaccone on the Future of Brokerage, MLS Disruption, and Why Agents Aren’t Going Anywhere
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📖 Book of the Week
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⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
Federal Agencies
📰FinCEN Asks for More Comments on its Real Estate Reporting Form (ends July 7th)
Policy Changes and Impacts on Real Estate
📰4 Things We're Watching Under the New Presidential Administration
📰Top housing official sends Fed Chair Powell blunt message on mortgage rates
📄HUD’s Manufactured Housing Overhaul: A Step Forward — or a Blurred Future for Housing?
State Regulatory Changes
📖Washington State Slaps Xpert Home Loans with $185K Fine (Order)
📰Pennsylvania no longer requires Pre-Licensing Education.(effective April 29, 2025)
📰Pennsylvania now requires a 3-hour ethics continuing education requirement for Title Producer Licenses (effective April 29, 2025)
📰Idaho Joins the De-Banking Ban Wave (starting July 1, 2025)
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🤖AI, Automations other Tech for Title Insurance
📄Smart Transactions: Using AI For Seamless Residential Payments and Rewards
📄11 Clever Ways to Use ChatGPT for Real Estate in 2025 (+ prompts)
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