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Hi, I’m Cheryl, your guide to the Title Underground. Each week, I curate the most important news, insights, and resources—so you don’t have to. Just scan the headlines and dive into what matters most to you!

Inside this Edition:

• 📜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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• 🐐 Directory: Land Title Associations and Associations for Related Industries

• 🌍 Foreign Tax CPA: Challenges Foreign Sellers Face With EFTPS Enrollment and Use

• 📄Foreign Purchases of U.S. Homes Surged in the Year Through March

• 🎥Setting the Standard: Jeff Bluhm on ALTA’s Best Practices

• 🎥Transfer Upon Death Deeds

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🕵️‍♂️Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources

• 📄🔒How Capital Title Insurance Agency caught 7 vacant land seller fraud attempts with Closinglock

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• 🎙️How Real Estate Investigations Really Work Behind the Scenes

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• 📰A Company Tried to Put Real Estate on the Blockchain and Now It's Facing a Legal Disaster

• 🎥How Mike Simon Got His Start in Title Insurance

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📖 Book of the Week

LLC Beginner's Guide [All-in-1]: Everything on How to Start, Run, and Grow Your First Company Without Prior Experience. Includes Essential Tax Hacks, Critical Legal Strategies, and Expert Insights

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⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates

Policy Changes and Impacts on Real Estate

• 📰 How Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Shifts the Commercial Multifamily Landscape

• 📰 MHARR Provides Washington D.C. Updates on Affordable Manufactured Housing Bills-Challenges-Enforcement Woes

• 📰 The End of Estate Tax? Witnessing a slow death to a tax on death

• 📰 Trump accuses Schiff of mortgage fraud, which Schiff calls false ‘political retaliation’

State Regulatory Changes

• 📰 Pennsylvania Protecting vulnerable homeowners from deed fraud

• 📰 Will a 63% tax hike on real estate sales tank RI's tenuous market?

• 📰 New Florida condo laws aim to add transparency for buyers

• 📰 California strikes environmental law that choked new housing

• 📰 Rhode Island bans right-to-list agreements

• 📰 What’s Happening in Local Land Use | Q3 2025

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🤖AI, Automations other Tech for Title Insurance

• 📄 Custom GPTs are quietly taking over real estate — here’s how to build one

• 📄 ‘Flipping Dynamic’ Between Agents and Sellers, Toronto Proptech Platform Goes Live in Canada

• 📄 How proptech and fintech is coming together for a smarter future

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👀Cyber Security & Fraud

• 📄 ChatGPT image generation increases document fraud across industries

• 📄 Your Marketing Maybe Be Breaching Your Network Security

• 🎥 Unreal Deals: AI, Deepfakes and Real Estate Fraud

• 📰 Fannie Mae warns of fraud involving deed transfers to LLCs, followed by limited cash-out refinance in NJ

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