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Legal League: Paving the Path for Servicing Professionals

Appraisal Buzz

Hladik, Chair, Legal League This article originally appeared in the March 2025 edition of MortgagePoint magazine, online now. Hladik serves as Chair of Legal League , and is a Partner at Hladik, Onorato & Federman LLP. Q: What were some of the key accomplishments of Legal League in 2024?

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Understanding the Surge in Title Fraud—And How to Prevent It

Appraisal Buzz

In some cases, AI and other digital tools have also been used to create convincing forgeries of documents or to automate the process of generating fake deeds and other legal documents. While digital tools have made deed fraud easier to perpetrate, so have procedural vulnerabilities within most real estate transactions.

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How to become a real estate broker & launch a brokerage — Advice from a KW mega broker

Housing Wire

Obtain a real estate broker license Your new chapter begins with ensuring you meet all legal requirements to operate as a broker. This includes legal, tax, and state requirements. These legal structures offer some liability protection for you and, in most cases, tax benefits as well. Now you have to do some tedious stuff.

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ProperSign launches eSign tool for RON capabilities

Housing Wire

Remote online notarization company ProperSign announced a new electronic signature tool called QuickSign, which offers both RON and eSign capabilities. Between the RON capability and QuickSign, professionals no longer have to shop for two different tools,” said Wyatt Long, ProperSign vice president.

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HUD rescinds appraisal review policies

Housing Wire

(The claims) carry significant professional and legal consequences, he said. In July 2024, a coalition of five federal agencies the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. , Standardized federal ROV policy had been viewed as a tool to combat appraisal bias.

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Rhode Island historian uses a reverse mortgage as an estate planning tool

Housing Wire

“The foundation would get what was described, in a January 2023 fundraising package, as a ‘prestigious headquarters … [and] site for small scale, but elegant events’ with its ‘voluminous library on American legal and constitutional development’ as a resource for nearby Roger Williams University ‘s law school.”

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The title industry is working to tackle fraud 

Housing Wire

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines fraud as the “intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right,” and from identity theft to sweepstakes and investment scams, it can take countless forms at a high cost to consumers.