May 2021 Newsblog
IT’S AN OLYMPIC SPORT – I was moaning to my real estate client that our April new sale transactions opening count was down. She was …
Juliana Tu
April 2021 Newsblog
REMINDER – APRIL IS ALL ABOUT PROPERTY TAXES! April 12 (Monday) – California’s 2nd half property taxes due! Remind your Buyers who purchased at the …
March 2021 Newsblog
Valentine’s Day is done, all the major early year holidays are done, the clocks are jumping forward again on March 14th, and that means there …
February 2021 Newsblog
Another New Year Celebration! February already! Busy, busy month. Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day and the President’s Day holiday, all one after the other. First, …
January 2021 Newsblog
January 2021 – Happy, Happy New Year! I know, we were all chomping at the bit, weren’t we? So, we are here now, let’s make …
Threats To Escrow ! Part 4 – Email Fraud!
Much of wire fraud that we see in the escrow industry rises from fraudsters hacking into the email accounts of clients, real estate professionals or …
Threats to Escrow ! Part 3 – Identity Fraud!
In this part 3 of my Threats to Escrow I bring up the most public of all frauds – identity fraud. Stealing someone’s identity and …
Threats to Escrow ! Part 2 – Check Fraud!
It’s not just wire fraud, my friends, that we need to worry about. Whether it is in an escrow transaction or just our daily lives, …
Threats to Escrow! Part 1 – Wire Fraud! The most prevalent threat to your escrow transaction
There is nothing, absolutely nothing worse than finding out all your hard earned money that you wired to your escrow company disappeared. Why? Because some …
A Transaction Touched by COVID-19
We are 9 months into the pandemic and many people have been laid off, furloughed, and small and large businesses have closed down. The escrow …