🐐Title Underground: Relationships in Title; The AI Seller Platform & More 3-August-2025

The Title Industry News, Stories, Events, Resources and Podcasts You Won't Find Anywhere Else

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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

• 🤖AI, Automations other Tech for Title Insurance

• 👀Cyber Security & Fraud

• 🪄Magically Thriving Business💸: Resources to help you run and grow your business.

• 🐐A Wicked Sense of Humor: Sunday Funnies

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📜Title Archive: Educational Resources

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• 🐐One Post Won’t Save You: Why Marketing Is a Relationship, Not a Raffle Ticket

• 🎥How to Prepare for an Audit in Title Insurance

• 📄Understanding RESPA: What Every Notary Public Should Know About Ethics, Compliance, and Referral Laws

• 📄Transfer of Property into a Trust: What Your Clients Need to Know

• ⬇️5 New ALTA Endorsement Forms Available August 1st

• 📄Revised Rate Manual - Stewart Title - Minnesota

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🕵️‍♂️Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources

• 🌍 Foreign Tax CPA: Foreign Seller Identification Failure Costs Title Company $202K

• 📄🔒How Flying S Title stopped multiple fraud attempts with vigilance and Closinglock

  • ⬇️Want to look like a pro and sleep at night? This FREE Consumer Education Fraud Prevention Kit courtesy of Closinglock helps.

• 🎥 The REAL reason behind the housing crisis

• 📄The Death of IRR: Why Every Real Estate Pitch Deck is Lying to You

• 📄Colorado homeowner who went viral launches AI seller platform

• 📄Realtors Sought for New Reality TV Series on Southwest Desert Markets

• 📄First American Wins 20 year old Class Action Trial

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📖 Book of the Week

Intercepted: A True Story of Wire Fraud and The Race to Recover authored by Kevin Tacher, CEO of Independance Title in Florida and Wicked Title Forum member. Kevin thanks for reaching out and letting us know about your book, we’re excited it to give it a read ourselves!

⁉️ Got a book, blog, podcast, or YouTube channel that title professionals should know about?
Hit reply or drop a comment below—your recommendation might just get featured in the next issue of Title Underground!

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⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates

National

• 📰10 reasons the Clear Cooperation Policy poses an antitrust risk

• 📰Proposed HUD Budget Cuts & Term Limits means millions of renters would no longer be eligible for federal support that helps them maintain stable housing

• 📰The Scott-Warren ROAD to Housing Act first housing bill to pass Committee in over a decade

• 📰Supporting Upgraded Property Projects and Lending for Yards (SUPPLY) Act Introduced

• 📰Trump Signs VA Foreclosure Prevention Bill

• 📰Identifying Regulatory Barriers to Housing Supply Ac Introduced

• 📰Housing for US Act Bipartisan Bill to Build Middle Class Housing with Union Labor

• 📰Appraisal Modernization Act to Address Bias in Appraisals Introduced

State Regulatory Changes

• 📰Louisiana has updated its continuing education requirements for producers and adjusters, effective Aug. 1, 2025. For those who will renew on or after July 31, 2027, continuing education will include at least two hours of education about legislative changes to state insurance law.

• 📰North Dakota merged its Insurance and Securities departments

• 📰South Dakota Seeks Public Comments on Repealing Limit of CE's Received

• 📰Washington State announced its intent to clarify and update rules regarding title insurers sponsoring educational programs.

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🤖AI, Automations other Tech for Title Insurance

• 🎥 Innovation in Real Estate

• 📄Pilot Program to Enable Bitcoin Purchases of New Florida Construction Properties

• 📄New Generative AI Tool, Enhancing Productivity for Title Agents

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👀Cyber Security & Fraud

• 📄 Cybersecurity Training for Employees in 8 Steps: Protecting Your Business from the Inside Out

• 📰 Seattle Commercial Property Owner Found Guilty in Tax Fraud Scheme

• 🎥 When fraud occurs, who is ultimately responsible? Who bears the burden of the loss?

• 📰DC Man Sentenced for Stealing Homes with Fraudulent Deeds

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• 🎥The 5 Types of Realtors we see in the Title Business!

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Cheryl

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