Yesterday's Palm Beach Post ran an informative article about the Palm Beach County Clerk's Office redacting personal information from cases available to public. The article explained that certain imaged documents from the court file can now be viewed at terminals at the South County and North County Courthouses. The most interesting part of the article was at the end: Bock also points out that lawmakers have kept in place a restriction keeping court records from public view online. Images of … [Read more...]
Palm Beach County Courts Redact Personal Information from Cases Available to Public
Your Chance to Vote on New TILA / GFE / HUD-1 Forms
Our federal government is once again going to make real estate transactions "easier" for consumers to understand. For almost two years, real estate practitioners have been struggling with the new Good Faith Estimate (GFE) and HUD-1 Settlement Statements on all RESPA transactions. The intent behind these revised forms was to make things "easier" for the consumer. The result was, of course, the exact opposite. The new forms are creating a host of compliance issues for lenders and … [Read more...]



