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📜Educational Resources

• 🐐🎙️Title Think Tank Replay September 2025: Last-Minute Closings & CD Chaos: What to Do When the Deal Drops at 5:55pm

• 📄The Importance of Land Patents in US Title

• 📄Title Search: How To Find Liens On A Property

• 🎥 Housing Excess Equity, Eminent Domain and Hidden Costs of Regulation

• 📄Understanding Water Rights

• 🎥Critical overlap between FinCEN readiness and fraud prevention for title and escrow companies

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🕵️‍♂️Underworld Intel

• 🐐Join the Wicked Title Scavenger Hunt at ALTA One this Week!

• 🐐🎥 Title Agents Should Be Making Friends with Their Competition, Here’s Why

• 📄5 Commerical Real Estate Hot Topics

• 📄WFG launches women’s leadership group

  • 📄Get to know the inspiration behind the WFG women’s leadership group

• 🎥 Cash Buyers, Shell Companies, and FinCEN: The 2025 Compliance Guide for Title Agents

• 📄Private capital is powering new construction opportunities

• 📄FICO bypasses credit bureaus with new program for mortgage lenders

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⚖️Regulatory & Policy Updates

National

• FinCEN Rule Delayed until March 1, 2026! (More details coming Wednesday!)

  • 📰Fidelity asks for summary judgment in suit against FinCEN, Bessent

• Shutdown:

  • 📰Shutdown guts U.S. cybersecurity agency at perilous time

  • 📰Government Shutdown’s Ripple Effect on Housing

  • 📰Fannie and Freddie waive some loan requirements amid shutdown

  • 📰How a Federal Government Shutdown Could Impact Housing

• HUD

  • 📰HUD bright red banner at the top of website says the “radical left” going to hurt the country

  • 📰HUD Secretary Turner: ‘The Radical Left Are Going to Shut Down the Government’

  • 📰HUD accused of violating Hatch Act over shutdown message

• FHA

  • 📰FHA extends deadline for updates on new loss-mitigation rules

  • 📰FHA Reduces Multifamily Mortgage Insurance Premiums

  • 📰Bipartisan Bill Seeks Relief for FHA Borrowers’ Insurance Costs

  • 📰Sen. Warren Accuses FHFA’s Pulte of Weaponizing Mortgage Fraud Probes

• 🎥 Change is coming to the Fed, whether they like it or not

State Regulatory Changes

• 📰New Online System for Reporting Name Changes to New Mexico Department of Insurance

• 📰New Mexico Department of Insurance launching audit of their licensee database to ensure accuracy

• 📰South Dakota Removes Limit on CE Credits From Insurance Company Courses (Effective Oct 1 2025)

🤖PropTech, Cyber Security & Fraud

• 🐐 AI Prompt: Customer Pain Point Analysis Solutions (or use the app)

• 🎥🔒Outsmarting Fraudsters: New Tools to Prevent Seller Fraud presented by Closinglock

  • ⬇️First come. First smart. Get the Closinglock-sponsored Wire Fraud Prevention Kit before it disappears

• 📄This Georgia family claims their $500K home was stolen after it was sold using a forged deed — now they’re suing

• 📄ChatGPT Agent’s automation capabilities are cutting CRE research, underwriting, and report-writing time by up to 80%

• 📄Nationwide Home Price Mapping Tool (free)

• 📄New AI-powered home search platform

• 📄The Silent Threat Targeting Real Estate Professionals: Understanding Infostealers

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The Title Industry has a knowledge problem.

75% of our agents are over the age of 40.

The vast majority of our knowledge is passed down from generation to generation. It is not thoroughly documented, it is not taught in schools, the knowledge is not widely accessible and over the next several years we risk losing it as our skilled workforce retires.

At the Wicked Title Forum, we want to build the largest, independent, publicly accessible knowledgebase of title resources, tutorials, webinars, operations manuals, guides and other information. But to do this we need your help.

We are looking for people to contribute to this knowledge base. Whether it’s just a messy copy of resources you’ve compiled internally, that webinar you did that one time, or you’re interested in researching, editing and writing. We’ll take anything you’re willing to give and will provide free access to the knowledge base in return.

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Cheryl

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