🐐Title Underground: What are VOTs? Is FL a Trend Setter? and More 18-May-2025
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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
📻Your Title Playlist
📖 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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🕵️♂️Underworld Intel: Must-Read Articles & Resources
🎥 Most Investors Ignore This IRS-Approved Loophole | Maven Cost Segregation
🎥Webinar Recap: The Future of Technology in the Title & Escrow Industry
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📻Your Title Playlist
🐐🎧🎶 Ink, Lies & Alibis
📖 Book of the Week
⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates
Federal Agencies
📰 Only Approved Underwriters to Insure Fannie Mae Multifamily Mortgage Loans- Effective May 8, 202
Trump proposes cutting $33B in HUD funding, including Section 8
Policy Changes and Impacts on Real Estate
State Regulatory Changes
📰CLTA Negotiates Amendments to Recorder Notification Legislation - Senate Bill 255
🎥 What is a Partition Action? When is it used? and Recent Court Cases
📰CA Court Rules that Clear Title is Necessary in Order to File for Partition in an Estate Case
📢TIP:
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