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Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask About The GFE & HUD-1

Federal Income Taxation Of Primary & Second Homes: 2010 Edition

Short Sales, Distressed Property Transactions, & The Government Response Redux For 2010

Stay Inside the Lines - Surveys & Legal Descriptions

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Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask About The GFE & HUD-1

This seminar brings you up to date on the most current federal, state, and title industry statutes, rules, and regulations impacting the preparation of closing statements, including HUD’s RESPA reforms that became mandatory on January 1, 2010. Because of the new rules, we cover the Good Faith Estimate (GFE), too, so Settlement Agents are familiar with and know how to interpret and explain them to clients. As one of the Fund’s Transactional Foundations seminars, the material is presented with the novice closing agent and members’ support staff in mind. We will review the preparation of the new HUD-1 settlement statement and the Fund’s evolving “best practices” for its preparation and for handling closing receipts and disbursements. This seminar answers and explains the most common closing statement questions we get asked as well as some of the ones which should be asked, but aren’t. Learn how to explain the new HUD-1 and be better able to answer the questions about RESPA reforms your clients and referral sources will likely ask. You won’t even need to use a calculator! Any questions?
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:0.50

Federal Income Taxation Of Primary & Second Homes: 2010 Edition

Homes are so much more than where the heart is. Real estate lawyers need to know the ins and outs of the income tax treatment of primary and second homes in order to properly counsel their clients and answer their myriad questions. Can I deduct that? Is the gain taxable? What do you mean by “basis”? Do I qualify for a home buyer tax credit? What qualifies for a cash for caulkers credit? If I inherited a home from someone who died during 2010, what is my taxable basis? Why did the lender send me a 1099 following my short sale? This seminar covers the most frequently asked income tax questions involving residential real estate as well as recent tax law changes. From acquisition, to financing and refinancing, and culminating in sale or disposition through foreclosure or short sale, you will come away from this seminar with the ability to recognize issues that will help your clients make better decisions, tax-wise, about the real estate they own or plan to acquire. The seminar also includes coverage of the impact of the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA) on distressed residential property transactions. Considerations involving the “Save Our Homes” property tax assessment cap and its portability in terms of structuring how persons take title to homestead are also covered.
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:0.50

Short Sales, Distressed Property Transactions, & The Government Response Redux For 2010

In these challenging economic times, there is one certainty that will not change this year, and it is this… transactional real property practice will continue to change this year! Every day ushers in new programs and initiatives that real estate attorneys must know about to retain and attract business and conduct closings. This course covers the latest government efforts to help borrowers stay in their homes through such programs as HUD’s Home Affordable Refinance Program (“HARP”), the Home Affordable Modification Program (“HAMP”), Fannie Mae’s Deed for Lease program and Special Approval Designation for Established Florida Condominium Projects. The course covers the most current government programs and the full spectrum of financial tools and incentives available to lenders to rectify their problem loans. The mechanics of modifications and short sales are covered in detail from all perspectives, from handshake through modification/closing. Learn about the pitfalls in commonly used techniques and documents which could leave not just the lender coming up short or the borrower under water. The seminar also explores other options to deal with distress situations and to limit post-property-loss liability, including deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure, and selected aspects of foreclosure and deficiency judgments. The mechanics and title insurance aspects of these transactions are covered, together with late breaking legislative developments and case law interpreting them. Because the seminar content is constantly evolving throughout the year, don’t forget to sign up for E-Pocket Parts for the balance of 2010 when you attend.
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:0.50

Stay Inside the Lines - Surveys & Legal Descriptions

This practical, essential skills seminar is one of the Legal Education Department’s Transactional Foundations series of seminars geared for real estate attorneys and their paralegal staff who desire training in reading, interpreting, and understanding surveys and legal descriptions. The seminar addresses the concomitant title insurance issues pertaining to surveys, general and specific survey exceptions, and coverage issues. This seminar will prove valuable to attorneys and paralegals, who conduct real estate transactions, analyze or map legal descriptions, order or read surveys, and make determinations whether a legal description or survey issue renders title unmarketable. Whether the legal description unit of measurement involves a platted lot, a condominium unit, or is metes and bounds, take this course and go the distance. Different types of surveys used in Florida, for example ALTA and ACSM, are compared and contrasted, together with their minimum technical standards. Using real examples (including some from Fund claims files) attendees will develop survey reading skills and learn to translate examination results into title insurance requirements and exceptions. Special emphasis will be placed upon locating, analyzing, identifying, and interpreting survey anomalies -- matters shown on the survey that, if not rectified, must be specifically excepted from coverage or insured against before a transaction closes.
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:0.50