Andrew Capelli's (acapelli) Blog

I turned 40 today, and in a birthday card from my oldest daughter, she wrote: "Have the best day of your life!" That made me smile, and then I thought about it... What would make today the best day of my life?  First, I thought about my job at Stewart Title, and signing up 20 new commercial clien...

Recently, I heard a speaker talk about the difference between two types of attorneys in real estate transactions.  He called the two types "deal makers" and "deal killers." He really didn't go into too much detail, but it's easy to fill in the lines.  One type tries to figure out how (within the ...

I was in Detroit yesterday for an event put on by the ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) called "Retail 2.0: Rebooting the Living City."  It was a great program, well-attended by members of the real estate industry (including Stewart Title), attorneys, local government officials and...

I give a lot of speeches about title insurance.  Sometimes I speak about specific topics such as short sales, and sometimes my presentations are geared toward a specific audience such as lenders or commercial brokers. After I speak, I love to allow time for Q&A.  I'm always interested in helping ...

Last week at the Michigan Association of Realtors (MAR) conference, the closing speaker was Dr. Ted Jones, Stewart Title's chief economist.  Dr. Jones had a very interesting proposition which was well-received; he suggested that a workable stimulus for the U.S. economy would be to (through govern...