IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CFPB ! Because it seems that for the last eight months I live, eat, and dream them. Did you know that your major and minor finances, your kids’ education, your car, your life, in fact, it could be that your whole world is being governed by this independently regulated government system? … Read more
U.S. Debt Clock – Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock: http://www.usdebtclock.org/ WHERE SHOULD I BUY MY FIRST HOME? For those of us who have Millennials making the transition to the “real world”, this could be a good question, particularly when living is tied to working (imagine that). So here is a list of rankings of cities versus … Read more
The TRID has been postponed, not just once, but twice! New proposed effective date is October 3, 2015. Oh boy, I go on vacation for 2 weeks and boom! Things started happening fast and furious. There was no June newsletter from me, but I have extra stories in this July monthly letter as so many … Read more
Oh, the Hazards of Running an Escrow Desk! The latest in e-mail and wire fraud and a big thank you to a fellow escrow company owner and President of the Long Beach Escrow Association – PJ Garcia – for sharing and alerting us: In California the Lender funds the Buyer/Borrower’s loan funds to the Title … Read more
WE ARE BACK ONLINE! If you had some of Viva Escrow’s resources bookmarked, you may have recently noticed that they are no longer online. Our website was compromised with malware about two weeks ago and we had to take it down to clean it up. We are presently rebuilding the whole site and bringing back … Read more