The Title MD

07/27/2025

https://pacificlegal.org/case/powell-dc-home-equity-theft/

Gaston Powell’s loved ones are fighting back against DC’s predatory tax foreclosure process and excessive penalties to ensure their family legacy and home’s equity aren’t wiped out by illegal government overreach.

06/23/2025

https://www.nola.com/news/business/real_estate/new-orleans-real-estate-market-rank/article_9eb8bfec-6025-45fb-835f-b9fcf97f01ae.html

The New Orleans area real estate market maybe the "toughest in America," according to a new study by a University of Mississippi researcher. House prices after inflation are depressed but rents are still high despite population trends. A hope is that price-rent relationship might signal a market rec...

05/05/2025

https://youtu.be/TpuD0I0ta-Q?si=Du3sy8xXYglM2Zcl

Last year, a historic legal settlement resulted in sweeping rule changes that were supposed to lower the price of buying and selling a home across the countr...

12/04/2024

https://youtu.be/Gyp8EgDDOfk?si=w2m8BDamROWFvb_v
Why State of Louisiana Ballot Amendment No. 4 is a Trojan horse land grab that will negatively impact residents and Why you Should Vote No for ballot amendment No 4 this Saturday, December 7, 2024 Ballot

Why Amendment No 4 which wants to do away with tax sales and implement tax liens is a Trojan horse land grab against residents of this State and guts protect...

12/02/2024

In New Orleans, for the Prospect.6 triennial, the Chicago-based artist and architect Amanda Williams is repainting buildings blue, using pigments based on a patent by George Washington Carver. In doing so, she hopes to elevate Carver’s forgotten contributions to the history of color.

11/19/2024

https://amp.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/16/us-supreme-court-payday-loans

Court upholds funding design of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was under challenge by payday loan industry

09/19/2024

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/new-orleans-announces-2-million-arpa-fund-available-for-struggling-homeowners-here-is-how-to-apply/289-591a7299-a058-4649-a912-fddc76190e29

The funding will support New Orleans Area low-to-moderate income homeowners experiencing financial difficulties by helping them pay outstanding mortgage payments.

08/01/2024

Did you know there may be an expedited and cost efficient alternative to going through the Court process for the probate/succession process to transfer the assets of a decedent. In Louisiana, if the estate of the decedent is valued at less than $125,000, you may qualify to use the Affidavit of Small Succession to transfer assets, completely circumventing the Court process. This affidavit, once executed properly, can be simply filed at the land records office for as little as $100-$200 in the parish or county in which you live. We understand the challenges, especially in the current economy, that many are facing and the lack of access many individuals have to the legal system.

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08/01/2024

https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/business/realtors-group-to-pay-418m-to-settle-lawsuit-over-inflated-commissions/

The accord also resolves claims against more than 1 million members, state and local realtor associations, and most smaller brokerages.

05/13/2024

There is a patch of land in Louisiana, in a bend of the Mississippi, where the borders have been divided and redrawn for centuries. It has been governed by three empires, two republics and the Confederacy; new laws written, new flags planted. Today the land, just south of state capital Baton Rouge,....

02/23/2024

In an April 2023 United Supreme Court Decision the SCOTUS would rule, in Tyler v Hennepin County, that the retaining of equity by municipalities in the seizure and sale of immovable property for purposes of delinquent property taxes is considered a “taking” pursuant to the Takings Clause set forth in the 5th amendment of the US Constitution.

This means, for example, if a resident’s property was seized and sold at an auction by a specific municipality for delinquent property taxes in the amount $10,000. However, the property sold at the auction for $50,000. That the excess $40,000 being retained by municipalities subsequent to the sale of the subject property is unconstitutional and a violation of the takings clause of the 5th amendment of the United States Constituiton.

This is a major win for property owners across the country and even here in the City of New Orleans, the municipality continues to unlawfully retain the excess equity of property owners in seizures and sales of immovable property.

A Supreme Court ruling, like many other things, may not be quite what it seems. At point here is the...

09/14/2023

Maybe now the City of New Orleans can stop stealing the money , i.e. the equity, of the property belonging to residents of this City and atleast pay them the overages received from the SOAP auctions conducted by civic source. Please know, that if your property goes to a Sale of Adjudicated Property Auction, the surplus amount above and beyond what’s owed by the tax debtor, must now be returned to the property owner. Before this ruling by the Supreme Court, the City of New Orleans literally kept the residents overages and to my knowledge they still are, as this ruling just came down in May of 2023.

On May 25, 2023, the United States Supreme Court, in Tyler v. Hennepin County, ruled it is unconstitutional for municipalities to unilaterally retain...