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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]