What the hey? You say?
Got an e-mail from Ed Rybczynski on the subject of my new “hyper-localized” blog [love that phrase...LOL], Ligonier Living. He asked if I would be using tags? I said, “No, I’m an anti-tagite.”……and immediately thought, hey that’s a good post for Lenderama, yuk-yuk.
Seriously, I didn’t tag the posts. I never [...]

I love my iGoogle homepage.  I keep it simple - Gmail, weather, calendar, on-line title order e-commerce feed, that’s it - very Feng Shui and uncluttered.
As I sat and pondered while gazing upon that page, I thought what a great place to have an ad, and so, I created a Google gadget called The Closing [...]

When did you all decide it was OKAY to send a notary signing agent to the borrower in lieu of a mortgage originator?
Take a lesson from the title world. It ain’t a good idea.
These so-called “RESPA signings” fly under the radar of licensing and regulators and outside of the normal scope of reps and [...]

Countrywide wholesale closing protocol is morphing and changing.  We’re keeping our eyes open and trying to keep up.
Just this week we had to reprint a couple of Closing Services Letters because the fonts for the fill-in fields were different than the body of the letter.  That kinda stymied me but I’m going along to get [...]

Alright, now I KNOW I’m gonna get kicked off the Lenderama contributor panel.
Brian Brady started it!! I was just minding my own business surfing around the blogosphere reading here and there when this phrase captured my attention:
“Critics have called my strategy “puking all over the internet” (but placed my results in the top 20 of [...]

Brian Brady recently said he uses Twitter and that got me thinking. How are you delivering rate info? Do you still fax or hand carry rate sheets or do you have rates on a blog?
I’ve been trying to think of some useful way to incorporate Twitter into title insurance but so far, [...]

Yes, I know. I am an addict. My name is Diane and I am a blogoholic.
Wine Dog over at Pink Bunny Ears said in a comment recently that Statcounter was the crack. I think she meant it was the crack through which you can see who is visiting your site, but I [...]

After writing religously and passionately for about 15 months solid on Radical Title Talk, last weekend, here on Lenderama, I knelt down on my knees and cried to the heavens - when and how was this ever going to stop? Well - it was something like that or as close as you can get in [...]

My entree into the blogosphere was absolutely seated in anger.
In the late summer of 2006, my product and livelihood - title insurance - was under attack. Major media outlets smelled a rat and reports of multi-million dollar fines and penalties and class action law suits fanned the flames of what might have been the beginning [...]