Fund News and Alerts

Meaningful content is key when leveraging online marketing.  To add to your content stack we are going to share three topic ideas to use on social media to help drive direct consumer business to your title insurance practice.  A lot of marketing in the title industry has been historically focused on real estate agents and lenders – and rightfully so.

06/19/2018

It’s 2018 and the big question is what are you doing to help market your title insurance practice in a meaningful way? 

If you are still thinking about that answer, we’d like to share seven tips to help you jump start your plan or enhance the one you have!

05/23/2018

The Fund has become aware of unrecorded utility easements between 1940-1980, in favor of Sumter Electric Cooperative, INC. They were recently recorded in Lake, Marion and Sumter Counties.

04/19/2018

If you are beginning to develop an online presence or exploring ways to freshen things up, your website is a great place to start.  Your website is one channel that most of your customers will likely tune in to and will serve as a landing spot for any other online marketing you may do through social media, email, video, etc.    

So where is a good place to start? 

In collaboration with TitleTap, we have compiled a short list of tips below to get things moving in the right direction.

04/18/2018

It has been brought to our attention that there may have been suspicious activity regarding attempted sales of real estate with the typical scenario as follows:

04/11/2018

By D. Michael Chesser, Esq.

This article first started where the last one left off. That one told of a bank-owned repossession, a commercial lot, burdened by a billboard easement. The person buying was new to the English language, and didn’t know that the easement, which I called a “blanket easement” prevented use of the entire property.

03/27/2018

By D. Michael Chesser, Esq.

Drafting an easement is a bit like you and me landing an airplane. There will be mistakes. The difference is that you will know very quickly how the plane lands. It may be years before you know how bad your easement was.

03/14/2018

Alerts about this scam were sent to Fund Members in 2009 and 2010. We have not heard much about it since then, until now.

03/06/2018

DoubleTime^® will be available for download on the DoubleTime^® Support page. The download link will only be available to those firms that have an active DoubleTime^® license. If you have multiple firms or offices, please sign in using a Fundnet ID associated to the office with the active license. If you are unsure of which Fundnet ID to use, you can test your authentication.

02/13/2018

-          In DoubleTime 8.0 we have upgraded the document processor. This message is appearing because the document you are trying to open was built using the older document processor. By choosing Yes, the document will be processed and opened using the upgraded document processor.  By choosing No, the formatting of the document may be altered due to the new document processor. Please check the document to ensure that there are not any formatting discrepancies. Choosing Yes is the recommended selection to assure compatibility with the new document processor.
 
**If choosing No, the Document Formatting message box will appear every time the document is opened. 

02/13/2018