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  • Fidelity Title Calls Off the LandAmerica Merger (92)
    • Rhonda Porter: I’m re-reading the email in comment 87, I think the key word is “ownership” in stating their ownership does not include LandAmerica...
    • Rhonda Porter: The link is from Rainier Title’s website for their rate sheets. The cover of the rate sheet has LandAmerica and Commonwealth front and center....
    • Kary L. Krismer: Rhonda, what I’m not seeing in that link is a reference to Rainier Title (except for the web address). But I love this part of the email:...
    • Rhonda Porter: Roger, I wonder if AmTrust doesn’t understand “who’s who” in title–that’s amazing–thanks for sharing that. I...
  • Is the housing market performing “as expected”? (104)
    • Kary L. Krismer: I think what Bernanke was doing was trying to avoid the mistakes of Ford/Carter where the Fed clamped down on (what I consider non-existent)...
    • ARDELL: I blame Bernanke for pretty much everything. His penchant for reversing Greenspan also reversed the Country. He didn’t want to put his finger in the dike...
    • Kary L. Krismer: Bernanke will be in place possibly through Obama’s first entire term, or at least most of it (unless I’m forgetting how long he’s...
    • ARDELL: I keep thinking how lucky Obama is going to be a few years from now, if he can take the credit for things getting better. He certainly won’t get the...
  • HUD Passes RESPA Reform, New GFE Coming in 2010 (47)
    • jeremy hickling: Yeah- turning over all direction of 3rd party service providers to borrowers might in many cases be like turning loose addicts in a pharmacy. They...
  • Q&A with the Banker Panel at the National Auctioneers Association (2)
    • Kary L. Krismer: Sniglet, bankers might not know that. Non-judicial foreclosure is so favorable to lenders that they probably don’t even typically look at the...

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As many readers of this blog know I have been dealing with the after effects of my parents being hit by a drunk driver back at the end of March back in Wichita, KS. Both of my parents were injured and my father was put into a coma for several weeks. He is now out [...]

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Worth reiterating: Polly’s comments should be required reading for all agents (including the comments within the post about her comments! ).
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