Keith's Blog

I have not done a personal blog on my site, but thought that this would be a good time to start.    It seems just like yesterday my oldest daughter came into my life.  She is now 20years old and doing great.  In the spring she married an awesome young man which I was pleased to walk her down the ...

I wanted to let the community of active rain be aware of a "new" fraud alert that we, LandAmerica, have addressed and are making arrangements for, to keep this from becoming a possible issue on the part of the buyer, the Buyers agent as well as for the title company.  Please make sure your title ...

As I am traveling around the greater Grand Rapids area, over and over again I am told that "we have our own title company...and we are asked to use them" and asked to leave, and not even allowed to leave information behind of the offers and services that either I or my company have to offer. Ok.....

My Friends, After a brief journey outside of the community of Grand Rapids working still in the title business, I am pleased to be returning to Grand Rapids. I have moved to LandAmerica Lawyers Title in this transition with every intention of giving my customers the utmost in customer satisfactio...

Today I went to a seminar that opened my eyes to what exactly we do as title agents and settlement agents on behalf of the CONSUMER!!!  That's right the consumer.We have a fiduciary responsibility to the Buyer, Seller and the Lender (or entity loaning the money) to ensure that the transaction is ...

I have received many comments and questions pertaining to my last BLOG asking questions of "right and wrong" for RESPA.  Here is a link to RESPA that has lots of great information pertaining to RESPA guidlines.  http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/res/respa_hm.cfm Keep the questions coming...we al...

Are you receiving "free" marketing materials from your title company???  If so, you may be surprised to find out that it could cost you and your company a lot of money if the RESPA police get a hold of you. It has been in the papers and journals over the last year.  Title companies around the nat...

Short Sale Milton, MA--Horst and Inger contracted to buy this duplex from Pete, a local developer. The closing would be handled by David, an attorney. With the closing date near David realized this would be a short sale: After paying off the existing first mortgage, remaining sale proceeds ($58,0...

In the State of Michigan a Public Act (NO.44) was effective as of July 14th, 2003.  In this Act, it contains provisions that allow an owner to affix a mobile home/manufactured housing unit to real property by means of an Affidavit of Affixture.  In other words, the unit is changed from personal p...