“…in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin The IRS has a wide variety of tools available to collect on tax debts and is certainly not afraid to use them. The tool we commonly come across in the real estate closing and title insurance industry is [...]
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SnapClose recently announced a new integration with AmTrust Title Insurance. This integration allows title agents, attorneys and escrow officers the ability to generate Policies, Closing Protection Letters, and Policy Jackets directly from the SnapClose Pro platform, the companies announced. The integration will enable title agents and attorneys to receive AmTrust Title Closing Protection Letters [...]
SnapClose has partnered with Stewart Title Guaranty Company to provide our users with further integration features. This integration allows SnapClose clients to have access to policy jackets and closing protection letters (CPLs). Electronic policy jackets and CPLs will add value and convenience for our user experience, due to its ability to auto-populate fields – [...]
The 1031 Exchange is a commonly used tax benefit in real estate investments. In a nutshell, a 1031 Exchange allows real estate investors to delay paying capital gains taxes on the sale of an investment property when they roll the proceeds of that sale into a new investment property of like kind that is [...]
The Complete Guide to Marketing your Title Company This article is intended to provide value, without the fluff. As a marketing consultant, my job is to identify the marketing avenues that would benefit the client. In this case, the client is a small title company. MITCHELL SULLIVAN msullivan@snapclose.com LET’S GET STARTED! [...]
Thinking of opening your own Title Agency? Perhaps you are feeling the optimism of a stable and prosperous market, or maybe you are just tired of working for someone else. If so, it may be time to make the move to becoming your own boss and opening your own title company. While the most [...]
According to the FBI, Americans lost nearly $150 million to real estate scams in 2018. (Forbes). Here are four of the most common real estate scams: Loan Flipping Foreclosure Relief Rental Scams Escrow Wire Fraud In this article, we’ll focus on Escrow Wire Fraud. First, what is Escrow [...]
As I sat down to write this article, I promised myself to not mention the word(s) ‘COVID-19’, but I couldn’t help it. The virus has put a magnifying glass on the need for technology in our daily working lives. And as of this present moment, for many of us, COVID-19 has changed not only [...]
With refinances flooding our industry like a springtime deluge, we are getting a lot of questions about “reissue rates” and “substitution rates” (also sometimes generally referred to as the “refinance rates”). In some locales, the lenders sending refinance orders are beginning to expect the title insurance agents to automatically apply the discount, whether it [...]
