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Why a Property Title Search is Essential for an FSBO Listing

This post highlights why a property title search is essential if you are a settlement agent that's working with a buyer purchasing a FSBO listing.

How NOT to negotiate a real estate transaction

Here are 10 things you should never do when negotiating a deal for your client.

Title Snafus and You

Helping clients understand the complexities of title insurance keeps potentially small legal issues from snowballing.

Do You Italicize Book Titles? And Other Title Conundrums

Do you italicize book titles? Here's the key: italicize larger works, like books or movies; use quotation marks around shorter works like poems.

What Happens When Claims of Forgery Cloud Your Home's Title?

Someone is alleging forgery associated with your real estate purchase. You are sick and concerned at the prospect of losing the title to your home.

The Title Of This Court Filing Will Amaze You!

Best title ever for an opposition to a motion to dismiss.

Name the Book Titles Without Vowels or Spaces

How to Use the Link Title Attribute Correctly

Discover how the best practices for using the link title attribute and why you should focus on optimizing it for users, not the search engines.

Can you tell a ridiculous, real book title from a fake one?

One contest gives a prize for the oddest book titles of the year. See if you can spot 'em.

From Mary to Jill: Titles matter

When my kids get upset that one of their friends is saying something untrue—something small, usually, with no bearing on reality—I typically respond by

Alternate Title & I want to be a Great, Great Uncle.

It’s taken me until late this evening to realise that last week’s blog went out under the title of Sunday. It’s not the first time it’s happened that I’ve forgotten to…

My title doesn't have the word Creative

I am an Account Manager, and I am creative. Being here has made me realize how much I have severely diminished my role by thinking that creativity is only for the folks with the word “Creative” found in their titles. Creativity is an inspiration, it is a decision.

What Does Quiet Title Action Encompass?

Quiet title action involves resolving any adverse claims to a property with the ultimate, not always attained, objective of insurable marketable ownership.

How to research the chain of title for your historic property

Documenting a “chain of title” through deed research is an important step in learning more about the history of any property or old house. Read on for a step-by-step guide on how you can research the chain of title for your own home. A chain of title can be a key to unlock fascinating stories about who lived in your house, how and when your …

The way to capitalize a headline (all right, several ways)

Does your organization follow AP style, New York Times style, or something else? However you do it, here are some simple tips for getting it right.

Why adding your kids to the house title could cost you thousands

ST’s parents are aging and her mother is in long-term care. She wonders if her father should add her and her sisters on the house title to the family home.

Do you know your home title?

Just Deeds The City of Minneapolis offers free services to help property owners remove racial covenants from their properties’ legal title. The City of Minneapolis is pleased to offer the new Just …