parallel worlds of real estate sales, mortgage lending, and title insurance

Most homebuyers - as consumers - must navigate procedures, language, documents and all sorts of mumbo jumbo created by these three industries just to buy a house.  What's horrendously confusing is that all three industries serving the consumer in the same transaction are not cross trained.  They operate in seemingly separate but parallel worlds with very little understanding of core documents and

parallel worlds of real estate sales, mortgage lending, and title insurance

Most homebuyers - as consumers - must navigate procedures, language, documents and all sorts of mumbo jumbo created by these three industries just to buy a house.  What's horrendously confusing is that all three industries serving the consumer in the same transaction are not cross trained.  They operate in seemingly separate but parallel worlds with very little understanding of core documents and

Two articles on the CFPB caught my attention this week...

and since neither permit comments on their sites, I'll comment here.


The first is an article on Housing Wire.  Here's a blurb:


"Elizabeth believes in markets and in capitalism, but lying, cheating and stealing are not capitalist virtues. Honesty and trust are necessary conditions for a functioning market, and Elizabeth understands that," Fried told HousingWire. "It's obvious. Those who made

Two articles on the CFPB caught my attention this week...

and since neither permit comments on their sites, I'll comment here.


The first is an article on Housing Wire.  Here's a blurb:


"Elizabeth believes in markets and in capitalism, but lying, cheating and stealing are not capitalist virtues. Honesty and trust are necessary conditions for a functioning market, and Elizabeth understands that," Fried told HousingWire. "It's obvious. Those who made