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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!
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📜Title Archive: Educational Resources
🕵️♂️Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources
📖 Book of the Week
⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
📢Tips
👀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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🐐 You Asked, We Answered: ‘3 Hours Per Report?!’ and Other FinCEN Fears—Debunked
📄 Why Lenders and Title Companies Should Not Pre-Fill Notarial Certificates
📄 Fannie Mae Chain of Title Schedule and Knowledge Notification Requirements Pursuant to Form 4650
📄 Understanding Fannie Mae’s Updated Title and Closing Requirements for Multifamily Mortgage Loans
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🕵️♂️Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources
🌍 Foreign Tax CPA: $387K Mistake: How a Title Agency’s FIRPTA Missteps Led to Massive Penalties
📰 FICO Incorporates “Buy Now Pay Later” Use into Consumers’ Credit Scores
🎥 Understanding the Supply Side Challenges – Why Can’t We Build More Homes Where People Want to Live?
📄 Using Technology for Interpreting and Translating in Real Estate Transactions and Notarization
🎙️ The growth of shadow banking and why small businesses choose non-bank lenders
📰 Home prices are dropping in some regions of the U.S. Here's where.
📄 Theft by Snapshot: How Copyright Abuse in Mortgage Field Services Is Costing Labor Millions
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⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
National
📰 Federal Judge Orders HUD to Resume Fair Housing Grant Funding to Nonprofits
📰 FHFA Raises Cap on Fannie and Freddie Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Investments
📰 FHFA Allows Fannie and Freddie to Invest Further in LIHTC Properties
📰 Fired Fannie Mae Employees Launch Lawsuit Over Fraud Dispute
📰 Trump’s team expands search for Fed chair to about 10 names, WSJ reports
📰 Trump's Fed pick has envisioned a major overhaul of the central bank
📰 Trump opens door for private equity and crypto as 401(k) retirement plan options
📰 MBA calls for end to Fannie and Freddie’s tri-merge credit report mandate
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👀Cyber Security & Fraud
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