🐐Where to Find Realtors in 2026, Support Liens in TX, 1099s for 2026, & More
New in the Wicked Title Forum knowledge base as of 21-Jan-26: Release Tracking SOP, Sample Forms, Clearing IRS Liens and more!
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Here’s what’s new in the Wicked Title Knowledge Base…
Whether a child support issue creates a title defect depends on how—and whether—a lien has been created, recorded, maintained, or released under Texas law. Keep reading to receive the full step-by-step procedural breakdown, statutory citations, payoff workflows, links to state forms, answers to frequently asked questions, and scenario-based guidance. (more…)
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Want More Title Orders? Start Showing Up Where Realtors Already Are
If your business development plan still relies on “hoping agents remember you,” it’s time for a tactical upgrade.
Realtors don’t magically discover new title partners. They meet them in rooms like these—conferences, institutes, advocacy weeks, and tech events where real conversations happen without a s
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Updates, Rewrites & Improvements
✨ Full rewrite & expansion to add more training materials, standard operating procedures, and sample forms.
✨ Full rewrite & expansion to add more training materials, standard operating procedures, and sample forms.
Migrated to New Knowledge Base
The following articles have been migrated to the new Wicked Title Knowledge Base:
🐐 The Awkward First Year of a Title Company—and How to Grow Through It - Find out from title industry pros how a new title company can generate business and secure orders while overcoming common startup challenges such as high operational costs, lack of income, and competitive market saturation?
🐐 Is Your Payment App Compliant? What Title Agents Must Know About the CFPB Rule on NonBank Payment Apps - Discover how the CFPB’s new rule impacts popular payment apps. What changes are coming, and how will they reshape data security and compliance in the title insurance industry?
🐐How to Use the MERS System to Obtain Mortgage Payoffs and Clear Title Liens - Learn how to effectively use the MERS system for ordering mortgage payoffs and clearing title liens. Detailed steps, best practices, and essential guidelines included.
🐐 Comprehensive Guide on the Use and Application of AI in the Title Industry: An Evolving Conversation - Find out these game changing ways AI can be applied in your title agency and how to do it.
🐐 How Are Title Professionals Using AI to Streamline Office Processes? Check out These Top 10 Solutions! - Find out how AI technologies offer tangible benefits that improve daily title agency operations
🐐 5 Main AI Applications for Title Insurance Agency Operations and Who’s Offering Them - AI in title insurance isn’t one tool, one platform, or one magic button—it’s a quiet layer spreading across order intake, searches, underwriting, fraud prevention, customer communication, and everything in between. Inside this resource, we map where AI is actually showing up in title workflows today, who’s building it, and how it’s being applied.
🔗 AI from Across the Title Industry - 3rd Party Resources - AI is everywhere in title right now. This resource is a deliberately curated, hyperlinked collection of third-party articles, webinars, tools, and vendors that are actively shaping how AI is being used in title insurance, real estate, and adjacent industries.
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