Fund News and Alerts

Need to Make a Change? You’ve got options! Accuair and TitleFusion now feature Fund integrations that make it easy for you to streamline your workflow and do business with us. Order products, policy jackets and CPLs without ever leaving the application! These are just two of the integrated software options available to you. Learn more about each software. Explore Your Options!

Join us Tuesday, May 13  (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM) EDT This course examines the new FR/BAR-7 and includes points of comparison between the traditional or “repair” version and the “AS IS” form. The program interweaves “hot spots” and “cool tips” garnered from real-life practice situations, examining common issues, conflicts, and advice for how to deal with specific situations including tenants, force majeure, lender practices, escrow dispute, local customs, and areas of frequent debate among real estate practitioners. Register Now

As a result of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) most recent anti-money laundering effort, a new Residential Real Estate Rule (the Rule) will take effect on Dec. 1, 2025. Many closing agents in certain Florida counties are already familiar with the Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs) and have become accustomed to reporting certain cash purchases to FinCEN already. Beginning Dec. 1, 2025, all non-financed transfers to entities or trusts for residential real property in all U.S. states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, and Native American land are to be reported to FinCEN, and the reporting requirements under the GTOs will be eliminated. Read the article

Meet these Marketplace vendors at the Fund Assembly Expo: Attorney’s Closing Services, Attorneys First Insurance, Bank United, Capital Bank, CASi, Elite Property Research, First Choice Surveying, Go Green Notaries, Old Republic Exchange, PropLogix, REAL RES, Reliable Lien Search, Skyline Title Support & TitleTap. Can’t make it? ☹ Visit the Vendor Marketplace today.

Recommended Minimum Standards/Strongly Recommended Practices. We are constantly under attack by fraudsters who impersonate sellers, forge documents, steal transaction funds and much more. We thought it would be helpful to put all of our recommendations about steps you should take to prevent fraud and what you should do when you discover a fraud has occurred in one place. Here is a flyer with handy checklists on both.

For decades, we’ve helped Members successfully close commercial deals throughout Florida. Regardless of your deal’s size or scope, the commercial experience, expertise, and services you need to get it done right are right here.

By way of background, Florida’s homestead exemption laws have been compared by legal scholars and courts to a chameleon “which changes color to accord with the background against which it is viewed.” Crosby and Miller, Our Legal Chameleon: The Florida Homestead Exemption, 2 U. Fla. L. Rev. 12 (1949). Read the article

Can't make it to Orlando? Don’t miss out on the legal education event of the year-- register for Fund Assembly Live Online by May 12.  Register Now

You will not want to miss this year’s REC Luncheon at Fund Assembly featuring an intimate Q&A session with Tim M. Cerio, President, CEO & Executive Director of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. 

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