🐐Title Underground: FINCEN is Delayed; The Gov't is Shutdown; WTF Scavenger Hunt at ALTA One & More 5-Oct-2025
The Title Industry News, Stories, Events, Resources and Podcasts You Won't Find Anywhere Else
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FINAL CALL! Cheryl will be attending ALTA One in New York, October 7–9, and she wants to bring the experience back to you. If you’re not attending, think of her as your representative — ready to listen, ask, and share. Which vendors or sessions should she prioritize? What questions should she pose to agents? Share your requests by replying to this email or commenting at the bottom on Substack so she can bring answers to your most burning questions.
📜Educational Resources
🎥 Housing Excess Equity, Eminent Domain and Hidden Costs of Regulation
🎥Critical overlap between FinCEN readiness and fraud prevention for title and escrow companies
Or search #WickedScavengerHunt and #SuperTitleGoatTravels on Instagram!
🕵️♂️Underworld Intel
🐐Join the Wicked Title Scavenger Hunt at ALTA One this Week!
🐐🎥 Title Agents Should Be Making Friends with Their Competition, Here’s Why
🎥 Cash Buyers, Shell Companies, and FinCEN: The 2025 Compliance Guide for Title Agents
📄FICO bypasses credit bureaus with new program for mortgage lenders
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⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
National
FinCEN Rule Delayed until March 1, 2026! (More details coming Wednesday!)
Shutdown:
HUD
FHA
State Regulatory Changes
📰New Online System for Reporting Name Changes to New Mexico Department of Insurance
📰New Mexico Department of Insurance launching audit of their licensee database to ensure accuracy
📰South Dakota Removes Limit on CE Credits From Insurance Company Courses (Effective Oct 1 2025)
🤖PropTech, Cyber Security & Fraud
🐐 AI Prompt: Customer Pain Point Analysis Solutions (or use the app)
🎥🔒Outsmarting Fraudsters: New Tools to Prevent Seller Fraud presented by Closinglock
📄The Silent Threat Targeting Real Estate Professionals: Understanding Infostealers
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📖 Book of the Week
Your First Year: What I Wish I’d Known
The Title Industry has a knowledge problem.
75% of our agents are over the age of 40.
The vast majority of our knowledge is passed down from generation to generation. It is not thoroughly documented, it is not taught in schools, the knowledge is not widely accessible and over the next several years we risk losing it as our skilled workforce retires.
At the Wicked Title Forum, we want to build the largest, independent, publicly accessible knowledgebase of title resources, tutorials, webinars, operations manuals, guides and other information. But to do this we need your help.
We are looking for people to contribute to this knowledge base. Whether it’s just a messy copy of resources you’ve compiled internally, that webinar you did that one time, or you’re interested in researching, editing and writing. We’ll take anything you’re willing to give and will provide free access to the knowledge base in return.
If you’re interested, hit reply or comment below.
Stay Wicked,
Cheryl
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