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  • A Guide to Hosting Your Ultimate Summer Soirée

    By Jennifer Wilhelm, Event Coordinator Summer is just around the corner, and that means fun, sun and get-togethers with friends. Now is the perfect time to start planning your ultimate […]

    May 13, 2019
    A Guide to Hosting Your Ultimate Summer Soirée
  • Which Computer Is Safer From Cybercrime: Mac or PC?

    Which computer is safer from cybercrime: Mac or PC? The answer may surprise you. Remember the commercials with the young savvy man (Mac) vs the older stuffy man (PC)? These […]

    May 7, 2019
    Which Computer Is Safer From Cybercrime: Mac or PC?
  • How Tax Reforms Affect the Housing Market

    By: Mark Sprague, State Director of Information Capital The last time the U.S. underwent major tax reform was in 1986, and unintended consequences caused the 1987 “Texas Depression.” Two of […]

    April 18, 2019
    How Tax Reforms Affect the Housing Market
  • Spring Cleaning! Safeguarding Your Email

    Mary was a hard-working broker at a medium-sized office, she answered her agents’ emails and provided all the tools of the trade. She wanted every agent in her brokerage to […]

    April 1, 2019
    Spring Cleaning! Safeguarding Your Email
  • How to Protect Yourself Against a Ransomware Attack

    Dan, a Realtor®, was sitting down to his computer for a day at the office. He had two transactions in the works and needed to check on the lender’s progress […]

    March 13, 2019
    How to Protect Yourself Against a Ransomware Attack
  • Love? Not Actually… Steps to Protect Yourself from Cybercrime

    Welcome to the first article in a series from Independence Title on how to keep yourself, your devices, and your transactions safe from cybercrime. Check out the bottom of the […]

    February 13, 2019
    Love? Not Actually… Steps to Protect Yourself from Cybercrime
  • It’s the End of the (Paper) World As We Know It…and We Feel Fine!

    As paper disappears more and more from our daily lives, the real estate industry sometimes seems like one of the last vestiges of ink-and-paper transactions. These days you can buy […]

    November 14, 2018
    It’s the End of the (Paper) World As We Know It…and We Feel Fine!
  • “If Only I Had Known …”

    This is the refrain repeated by so many home buyers who lost or almost lost their savings from a wire fraud attempt during the process of buying a home: “If […]

    October 30, 2018
    “If Only I Had Known …”
  • The Sky Is Not Falling. Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update

    The unemployment rate has hit a new low — 3.7 percent — that was last seen in December of 1969. Of course, things were a little different in the late […]

    October 23, 2018
    The Sky Is Not Falling. Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update
  • Is the Texas Market Still Booming? Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update

    The Texas metros housing markets have certainly been booming over the last several years.  But as I’ve said before, the concern is when is the slowdown?  Is it imminent, in a […]

    September 13, 2018
    Is the Texas Market Still Booming? Mark Sprague’s Texas Market Update

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