2008

• Mechanics & Materialmans’ Lien Underwriting ALERT
• Pottle v. Link:
• Scheduling of Construction Loans
• BEST LAID PLANS AND PLATS
• What do you mean the new Deed of Trust is not in a First Lien Position?
• Survey Coverage for Stump Holes? - The Limitations of Survey Coverage

2007

• Properly Completing and Executing the Lien Affidavit:
• Flying Crafts, Jet Packs….and Electronic Recordings?
• When the Tax Man Cometh, Don’t Answer the Door and Don’t Pick Up Your Mail!
• "Caution, Take Time to Deliberate with Regard to the Most Overused Corrective Statue"
• Installment Land Sales Contracts
• Installment Land Sales Contracts

2006

• Installment Land
• Mechanics’ Liens Revisited:
• The Trustee’s Power to Sell Real Property under the NC Uniform Trust Code
• Please, I Beg You, Name Your Son Petunia!
• What’s in a name? That which we call a rose…

2005

• A Cautionary Tale for the Residential Real Estate Practitioner
• Is it covered?
• NORTH CAROLINA’S REVISED SATISFACTION ACT, SATISFACTORY?
• Is it covered?
• Safe Harbor Deed Preparation
• “MY DAY” AT INVESTORS TITLE
• They’ve Been Working on The Railroad - Or Near It
• New Commercial Transactions Endorsements – Take Two!
• Raintree Revisited
• A Question of Consideration
  No Gifts of Real Property from this Attorney-in-fact
• Raintree Revisited

2004

• What If…
• The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
• Sale of a Principal Residence: Tax Primer for the Dirt Lawyer
• New Commercial Transactions Endorsements
• ALERT: CLOSING ATTORNEYS BEWARE
• Get Your Priorities Straight:
  A Look at Purchase Money Financing
• Undefined Utility Easements: Defined?
• North Carolina Real Property
  Marketable Title Act - A Partial Solution to Title Defects
• The Fog of Foreclosure
• Warranties of Title:
  Estoppel by Deed vs. the Conner Act
• WHAT THEY DIDN'T TEACH YOU IN LAW SCHOOL:
  A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TITLE SEARCHING AND TITLE SEARCH REVIEW

2003

• What does "Like-kind" Mean?
• Bankruptcy and Judgment Liens: Traps for the Unwary
• Real Property Transactions Involving the Military
• "Flipped Again" NEW HUD REGULATION OF FLIP TRANSACTIONS
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
• Medicaid Liens And North Carolina's Estate Recovery Plan: Basic Guidelines For Real Estate Practitioners
• North Carolina Title Insurance Rating Bureau
  Files Premium Charge for Insured Closing Protection Letters
• Sayonara Smith v. Martin?
• A Review of Restrictive Covenants Affecting Manufactured and Modular Housingⁱ
• Mechanics' Liens Revisited:
  Concepts Every Underwriter Should Understand
• Baker v. Moorefield

2002

• Effects of Modifications on Loan Policies
• Revised Article 9 - Modern and Uncluttered
• New Security for Tenants and Their Lenders: ALTA Introduces Expanded Leasehold Coverages
• United States v. Craft Marriage is No Longer a Safe Haven
• Taxable Boot In Section 1031 Exchanges
• The Doctrine of Merger: Stop, Yield or Go?
• Defalcation: The Scariest Word In Title Insurance
• I.R.S. Lends A Hand To The Tenants-in-common Exchange Market The Basics and Impact of Revenue Procedure 2002-22
• Residuary Devise and North Carolina's Anti Lapse Statute
• Statutory De-Titling and a Declaration of Realty,
  The New Manufactured Home Act
• Smith v. Martin and its Logical Extension?

2001

• A DEED FOR TOWN HALL
  Due Diligence in Certifying Titles from Municipalities
• Announcing EFLITE Version 3:
  Title Opinions in Cyberspace
• Renunciation Of Title To Real Property Under North Carolina General Statute Chapter 31B
• Real Estate Transfers to and from Minors in North Carolina
• From Hard Ball to the Four Corners
• Tolling of North Carolina 10-Year Statute of Limitation for a Judgment Lien While Debtor is in Bankruptcy
• ERASING THE PAPER STREET
• "Hypothecated Security: Revisiting In Re Enderle"
• "Caution, Take Time to Deliberate with Regard to the Most Overused Corrective Statue"

2000

• Mechanics' Lien Prevention in North Carolina
• "Holy, Holy, Holy, Who Signs This Deed?"
• "Holy, Holy, Holy, Who Signs This Deed?"
• "Effective Cancellation of an Equity Line Deed of Trust"
• "CAUTION: WIDE LOAD" Might Not Mean Mobile Home
• "The Mobile Home As Real Property"
• North Carolina's "Statutory Dower" - The Elective Life Estate
• "Mobile Myths and Misconceptions"
• "A Brief History of and Current Issues
  Involving Railroads In North Carolina"
• "A Brief History of and Current Issues
  Involving Railroads In North Carolina"

• "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My"