The Different Types of Land Grants in Texas
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/29/2014
- Legal
For Texas property owners, the history of the state's land grant program looms large. For various reasons, it's crucial for property owners to be able to trace their titles back through an unbroken chain. This article explores the types of ...
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HARP Refinancing Rules: What You Need to Know
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/27/2014
- Mortgage
Since the housing market bust of the late 2000s, mortgage rates have remained at historically low levels. While there's no guarantee that this situation will continue into the future, most economists expect interest rates to follow a "new ...
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Why is Platting Required?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/22/2014
- Legal
While most homeowners have heard of the concept of platting, many find it foreign or overly technical. It's true that laypeople rarely have to deal directly with plat maps or the issues that arise from the platting - or non-platting - of a ...
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What is the Texas Economic Development Act?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/17/2014
- Finance
Texas has a proud tradition of adherence to the tenets of free-market capitalism, but its lawmakers aren't averse to lending local businesses and communities a helping hand. Since its enactment in 2001, the Texas Economic Development Act ...
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Title Opinion: What Do You Need to Know?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/13/2014
- Oil and Gas
No matter how long they've lived on their properties or made use of their mineral rights, landowners need to have a full and nuanced understanding of the rights that property ownership entails. Unfortunately, not all land titles are alike: ...
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What is the Proportionate Reduction Clause?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/10/2014
- Oil and Gas
The ongoing revolution in oil and natural gas exploration has created a wellspring of interest in the formerly sleepy subject of mineral lease agreements. From Texas to North Dakota and Pennsylvania to California, landowners who enter into ...
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Simple Guide to Texas Home Equity Lending Laws
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/08/2014
- Mortgage
Things aren't always bigger in Texas. To the delight of its homeowners, the Lone Star State boasts some of the country's strongest curbs on home equity lending. These effectively reduce the size of the average Texas home equity loan and ...
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Adverse Possession by a Co-Tenant in Texas
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/03/2014
- Real Estate
There are many ways of legally acquiring property in the United States. The vast majority of homeowners wend through the familiar mortgage-origination process and use the services of a real estate broker to secure an agreeable slice of ...
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