by Gary Pickren | Jul 17, 2019 | Legal Tips
An attempted wire fraud this week that could have lost someone $153,000! Play this video to see how someone can easily steal money from you and ways to protect yourself and your client from these hacks. Keywords: Wire fraud, email hacked, agent’s email,...
by Gary Pickren | Jul 17, 2019 | Legal Tips
I received a ton of comments and stories from other real estate agents who also have seen wire fraud attempts. Wire fraud is a very prevalent matter. Watch this short video on more ways to protect yourself from becoming victim to wire fraud or being sued by someone...
by Gary Pickren | Jul 17, 2019 | Legal Tips
It seems like less and less Sellers can attend closing. We had this happen twice this week and luckily the closings were not delayed. However, disbursement was delayed for almost a week on one closing! Watch this short video on how to avoid delays due to the Seller...
by Gary Pickren | Jul 17, 2019 | Legal Tips
For some reason our industry thinks speed is the answer to everything. How quickly can we close? That is as crazy as closing at the end of the month. Why do we continue to do this to ourselves? And by the way, some lenders are now sending out emails to agents saying...
by Gary Pickren | Jun 11, 2019 | Legal Tips
When your brokerage stopped holding escrow you thought it resolved all of your problems in dealing with earnest money checks. Well . . . that is not the case. The problems just became different. Here is how the agent must now navigate through the earnest money issues....
by Gary Pickren | Jun 4, 2019 | Legal Tips
When your buyer is moving from out of state they don’t always have access to a local bank. As such, getting a certified check or wire is often difficult because the bank requires the customer to come in person to implement the transaction. This out of state...
