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03/19/2020

Home buyers in Durham can’t move into new homes and sellers aren’t being paid because the Register of Deeds hasn’t been able to record transactions since the attack.

12/18/2019

07/25/2019

Treasure Title Service is proud to sponsor canoe #22. Go Mike & Nate!

05/15/2019

Two of the biggest names in title insurance are joining together to bring blockchain to the title insurance industry. First American Financial announced Wednesday that it is launching a shared blockchain system to be used in the title insurance process. And the first company to sign on to use First....

02/13/2019

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Crawford County Treasurer Joseph V. Wakeley will retire from position on April 30 By: Dan Sanderson | Staff Writer For the second time in nearly four months, a panel of county officials met on Monday, Feb. 11, to plan to fill a vacancy for a Crawford County elected official. Crawford County Treasur...

08/22/2018

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08/21/2018

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George B. Larsen, 56, formerly of San Rafael, was sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison and ordered to pay $1,759,100 in restitution for his role in a fraudulent mortgage elimination scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

07/26/2018

Treasure Title Service proudly sponsors Canoe #66 in the 2018 Au Sable River Canoe Marathon! Go Steve & Patrick!

07/16/2018

Taken from a post in 'Source of Title':

In light of a client's new requirement to have full searches in Missouri go all the way back to Land Patent ( 160 to 190 years or so), I thought this story needed dusting off and re-posting.

Everyone who has ever bought a house can enjoy this it's too
Good not to share!

FHA Loan

A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told
The loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the Lawyer three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply:

(Actual letter):

"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."

Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows (actual letter):

"Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 194 years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased, by the U.S., from France in 1803, the year of origin identified in our application. For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain. The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of discovery, made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Isabella. The good queen, Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus' expedition. Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana. God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back, to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it AND the FHA. I hope to hell you find God's original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we have our damn loan?"

The loan was approved.

02/21/2018

Our business email was hacked today. PLEASE delete any email you received with an odd attachment.

10/14/2017

Condolences to the Presque Isle County Register of Deed's office staff, co-workers, friends & family of Kathleen Karsten.

Kathleen Karsten Obituaries Oct 13, 2017 KARSTEN, Kathleen S., age 56 of Moltke Township died Oct. 12, 2017 at McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey. Kathy is survived by her husband, Jeff; daughter, Mandy; son, Zach; granddaughter, Amber Lyn; parents, Marvin and Joyce Pauly; two brothers,…