Prior Articles

Sinkholes

Once a year I try to review new state laws that may impact real estate transactions. Before I could get to this task, the Florida Land Title Association sent out several bulletins describing important law changes, doing my job for me! I will summarize a few of these laws, here, but you really need to see [...]

The Unauthorized Practice of Law

I am going to report to you about the results of The Florida Bar’s Unlicensed Practice of Law Standing Committee’s recent meeting to allow public comments about short sales and claims by attorneys that nonattorneys are crossing the UPL line when working on short sales, I promise. But in the meantime, I find myself drifting to what [...]

Looking for Fraud

Everyone knows that the fraud industry never seems to crash, it just morphs into different appearances. The traditional mortgage fraud, with loan applications containing false employment, income, and other information, and the artificially inflated appraisals fraud, were going strong for several years. Now that lenders are more cautious, and many potential buyers have poor credit, the latest fraud is on the individual. Not only [...]