What is a Land Trust? - What you Need to Know about Land Conservancies
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/22/2013
- Real Estate
The process of buying, selling and managing real estate can be a complicated affair. For real estate investors who work full-time jobs or need to manage other investments in addition to their landholdings, these complexities can sap ...
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What is a Compliance Certificate?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/17/2013
- Real Estate
Since the mid-1970s, Compliance Certificates have been an integral part of the real estate business. In the vast majority of local jurisdictions around the country, a piece of property can't legally exist without a corresponding Compliance ...
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How Does GIS Technology Work?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/15/2013
- Surveying
A geographic information system (GIS) joins hardware, software and information together to capture, manage, analyze and present various kinds of puzzling information. You can solve problems by viewing the data and processing the answers to ...
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Land Patent FAQ, Part 1: What is a Land Patent?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/10/2013
- Real Estate
For many landowners, land patents are a vaguely defined or even foreign concept. These days, the vast majority of regular Americans own their homes or properties through a deed or title issued by their local jurisdiction. In exchange, they ...
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The Top 4 Tax Lien Myths
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/08/2013
- Real Estate
A tax lien is the levy placed on a piece of property when the owner on record fails to pay the annual taxes due on that property. There is a remote possibility that an investor could become the property owner after a pre-determined passage ...
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How Does the Truth in Lending Act Work?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/05/2013
- Finance
The Truth in Lending Act, or TILA, is a federal law passed in 1968 to provide protections for both consumer and lender in credit transactions by requiring proper disclosure of information key to the loan agreement. It also includes ...
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Happy Easter from CourthouseDirect.com
Happy Easter from all of us here at CourthouseDirect.com. Have a very happy holiday!
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Happy National Surveyors Week from CourthouseDirect.com
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 03/22/2013
- Surveying
Did you know tomorrow caps off the National Society of Professional Surveyors' annual National Surveyors Week?
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What's Next for the Housing Market?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 03/22/2013
- Real Estate
With all the economic uncertainty it isn’t surprising the housing market has been unpredictable the past few months. Last spring when it seemed prices were rising, realtors were expecting the inventory to take a jump. Instead people opted ...
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How Has Technology Changed the Land Surveying Industry?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 03/15/2013
- Surveying
Land surveying technology circa 3,000 years ago until the late 20th century: Body Parts (e.g. feet, fingers) Sticks/Rope Chains/Steel Bands Tape Measures Logarithmic Tables Slide Rules/Calculators
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