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🐐 Streamline Your Title Process: How to Order a Mortgage Payoff Efficiently

Convey - Mortgage Payoffs

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Feb 17, 2026

🐐 Streamline Your Title Process: How to Order a Mortgage Payoff Efficiently

Detailed instructions for title agencies on when and how to order a mortgage payoff, including gathering necessary information, using various methods to request payoffs, and understanding lender-specific requirements

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐Release Tracking: In-House Burden or Outsourced Solution?

Post - Release Tracking

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Feb 16, 2026

🐐Release Tracking: In-House Burden or Outsourced Solution?

A practical guide for title agents on release tracking, including when to outsource, how in-house tracking compares, and a detailed review of third-party release tracking vendors.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🌍FIRPTA: Why Seller Status Should Be Confirmed at the Document Stage

Settle - Tax - FIRPTA

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Feb 13, 2026

🌍FIRPTA: Why Seller Status Should Be Confirmed at the Document Stage

Cheryl Evans
Kat Rodgers
Cheryl Evans, +1
🐐🧱The Wicked Brickhouse Guide to Auditing Title Operations

Ops - Operations

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Feb 11, 2026

🐐🧱The Wicked Brickhouse Guide to Auditing Title Operations

How to Find Risk, Friction, and What’s Quietly Costing You Money

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 Tool: Notary Law Tracker

State - Alabama

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Feb 9, 2026

🐐 Tool: Notary Law Tracker

Track changing notary laws by state with an interactive map that shows current bills, regulations, and policy trends affecting eSignatures, RON, and signing rules.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 WickedSplitTM: A No-Fluff Guide to Tax Prorations for Title Processors

Convey - Tax - Property

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Feb 3, 2026

🐐 WickedSplitTM: A No-Fluff Guide to Tax Prorations for Title Processors

Understand it. Calculate it. Be smarter than the software.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐🎙️Check Washing Fraud Is Still a Problem: Here’s How to Protect Your Escrow Accounts

Settle - Payment Processing

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Feb 3, 2026

🐐🎙️Check Washing Fraud Is Still a Problem: Here’s How to Protect Your Escrow Accounts

Protect your title agency's escrow accounts from check washing fraud: Learn how positive pay can stop criminals and prevent costly financial losses before they happen.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 Title Licensing Reciprocity: Florida

State - Florida

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Feb 3, 2026

🐐 Title Licensing Reciprocity: Florida

Agents or agencies that hold a resident title license in one of these states are eligible for a Florida Non-resident Title license.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 Find Realtors Now! Search for Realtor Associations by State

Associations - Directories

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Feb 2, 2026

🐐 Find Realtors Now! Search for Realtor Associations by State

Explore our comprehensive directory to find your state’s local Realtor association and take the first step toward building meaningful, profitable partnerships.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐Guide: How to Work With Web & Graphic Designers Without Getting Burned

Biz Growth - Websites

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Jan 28, 2026

🐐Guide: How to Work With Web & Graphic Designers Without Getting Burned

A practical, no-fluff guide for small business owners who want better results, fewer revisions, and zero regret.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🔗 TitleTech - 3rd Party Resources

Ops - Tech - Software - General

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Jan 23, 2026

🔗 TitleTech - 3rd Party Resources

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 Clearing Child Support From Title: A Comprehensive State & Tribal Contact Guide

State - Alabama

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Jan 22, 2026

🐐 Clearing Child Support From Title: A Comprehensive State & Tribal Contact Guide

A Smarter Way to Find Child Support Enforcement Contacts

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐Want More Title Orders? Start Showing Up Where Realtors Already Are

Admin - Events

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Jan 21, 2026

🐐Want More Title Orders? Start Showing Up Where Realtors Already Are

Realtor Events in 2026 that are great Networking Opportunities for Title Agents

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 The Definitive Guide to Child Support Liens in Texas

Convey - Child Support Liens

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Jan 20, 2026

🐐 The Definitive Guide to Child Support Liens in Texas

What Title Agents Need to Know — and What Changed in 2023

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐Is Your Payment App Compliant? What Title Agents Must Know About the CFPB Rule on NonBank Payment Apps

Settle - Payment Processing

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Jan 14, 2026

🐐Is Your Payment App Compliant? What Title Agents Must Know About the CFPB Rule on NonBank Payment Apps

Discover how the CFPB's new rule impacts popular payment apps. What changes are coming, and how will they reshape data security and compliance in the title insurance industry?

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 Annual Filing Deadlines of 1099-S Forms 2026

Taxes - 1099

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Jan 14, 2026

🐐 Annual Filing Deadlines of 1099-S Forms 2026

These deadlines are for reporting real estate transactions made during the 2025 tax year on 1099-S forms.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 Title Order Lifecycle: A Practical Guide to What Happens, Who Owns It, and Where Files Break

Title 101 - Lifecycle of a Title File

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Jan 14, 2026

🐐 Title Order Lifecycle: A Practical Guide to What Happens, Who Owns It, and Where Files Break

This guide lays out the core phases, the real-world loops (where you get yanked backward), and the risk points that separate “smooth closing” from “why is this file back?” six weeks later.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 Comprehensive Guide on the Use and Application of AI in the Title Industry: An Evolving Conversation

Ops - Tech - AI

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Jan 13, 2026

🐐 Comprehensive Guide on the Use and Application of AI in the Title Industry: An Evolving Conversation

Find out these game changing ways AI can be applied in your title agency and how to do it.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 The Awkward First Year of a Title Company—and How to Get Through It

Biz Growth - Title Agency

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Jan 13, 2026

🐐 The Awkward First Year of a Title Company—and How to Get Through It

Find out from title industry pros how a new title company can generate business and secure orders while overcoming common startup challenges such as high operational costs, lack of income, and competitive market saturation?

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 5 Main AI Applications for Title Insurance Agency Operations and Who's Offering Them

Ops - Tech - AI

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Jan 12, 2026

🐐 5 Main AI Applications for Title Insurance Agency Operations and Who's Offering Them

AI in title insurance isn’t one tool, one platform, or one magic button—it’s a quiet layer spreading across order intake, searches, underwriting, fraud prevention, customer communication, and everything in between.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🔗 AI from Across the Title Industry - 3rd Party Resources

Ops - Tech - AI

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Jan 12, 2026

🔗 AI from Across the Title Industry - 3rd Party Resources

AI is everywhere in title right now. This resource is a deliberately curated, hyperlinked collection of third-party articles, webinars, tools, and vendors that are actively shaping how AI is being used in title insurance, real estate, and adjacent industries.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 How Are Title Professionals Using AI to Streamline Office Processes? Check out These Top 10 Solutions!

Ops - Tech - AI

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Jan 12, 2026

🐐 How Are Title Professionals Using AI to Streamline Office Processes? Check out These Top 10 Solutions!

Find out how AI technologies offer tangible benefits that improve daily title agency operations

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 How to Use the MERS System to Obtain Mortgage Payoffs and Clear Title Liens

Convey - MERS

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Jan 12, 2026

🐐 How to Use the MERS System to Obtain Mortgage Payoffs and Clear Title Liens

Learn how to effectively use the MERS system for ordering mortgage payoffs and clearing title liens. Detailed steps, best practices, and essential guidelines included.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐Title Agents’ Roadmap to Resolving Federal IRS Tax Liens

Reg - Taxes - IRS

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Jan 12, 2026

🐐Title Agents’ Roadmap to Resolving Federal IRS Tax Liens

Navigating the complexities of federal tax liens from the IRS can be a daunting task for title agents. This guide provides a detailed, step-by-step process tailored specifically for title agency employees to effectively handle and resolve federal tax liens, ensuring a smooth closing process.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
🐐 From Closing to Clear Title: The Essential Process of Release Tracking

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Jan 12, 2026

🐐 From Closing to Clear Title: The Essential Process of Release Tracking

An in-depth overview of release tracking in title insurance, including post-closing workflows, lien releases, mutual indemnity agreements, and best practices for title agencies.

Cheryl Evans
Cheryl Evans
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