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Nationwide Title Clearing, Inc. Participates in National Association of Land Title Examiners and Abstractors Annual Conference

Friday, November 2nd, 2012


Palm Harbor, FL (PRWEB) October 30, 2012

Nationwide Title Clearing, Inc. (NTC), a leading service provider to the mortgage and financial industry, sponsored the National Association of Land Title Examiners and Abstractors (NALTEA) Annual Conference held in Clearwater Beach on October 19-20, 2012. Attorneys and leading industry experts spoke at the conference, including an NTC executive, on topics concerning the industry, from abstracting to business developments in the upcoming year.

NALTEA is an annual conference for land title examiners and abstractors, where they can meet with industry experts and obtain certifications. NTC is one of the largest research vendors in the residential real estate industry, with a large national network of abstractors. Michelle Walet, Vice President Research; Aaron Vause, Abstract Manager; and Dan Nordmark, Research Director attended the conference.

In addition to sponsoring the event, Walet hosted a roundtable discussion on assignment chain searches, due to NTCs extensive experience and expertise in the area. Topics covered included the current requirements being imposed in relation to conducting searches. Walet provided instructional information for abstractors regarding conducting searches, what to look for, and how to identify problems specific to assignments with problematic indexing at the county levels. The roundtable discussion also included various peculiarities found amongst abstractors in their covered jurisdictions and challenges abstractors face today.

NTC has a long track record as document experts with exhaustive resources and the research skills necessary to ensure that the industry conducts proper documentation. NTC has a unique system for tracking and maintaining state and county document requirements and recording fee structures for more than 3,600 recording jurisdictions nationwide. NTC has developed and maintains an evolving library of thousands of different document forms used in U.S. jurisdictions. The companys advancement of the mortgage assignment chain verification process, PerfectChain, is another means by which NTC has been developing industry best practices in order to help legislators, mortgage lenders, servicers and homeowners gain certainty and confidence.

NTCs business process is based on the stringent review, research and reporting that is done prior to the processing and recording of accurate post-closing mortgage documents. NTC has offered its help to lawmakers in establishing industry-wide best practices which provide assurance to consumers, while also being practical to achieve within the industry. The company feels that its comprehensive industry and land records knowledge can be advantageous in helping to establish best practices for its market.

This conference gave us the chance to meet with key contacts from our abstracting network, create new relationships and we value NALTEAs objective of establishing uniform standards and practices through guidelines and training, commented John Hillman, CEO of NTC.

This was NTCs first year sponsoring the NALTEA conference.

About Nationwide Title Clearing, Inc.:

Based in Palm Harbor, Florida and founded in 1991, Nationwide Title Clearing, Inc. (NTC) is a privately-owned leading service provider to the residential mortgage industry, serving mortgage lenders, servicers and investors, including eight of the top ten residential mortgage servicers in the country. NTC earned the position of #2,730 on the 2012 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, and ranks #36 in Tampa and #46 in the real estate industry. The companys land records and document experts are able to track and fulfill county document requirements for close to 3,600 recording jurisdictions nationwide. NTC specializes in providing land records research, lien release services, assignment services, final document tracking, document retrieval and other custom business solutions. For more information, visit the companys website at http://www.nwtc.com.







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Investors Hire National Workout Firm, Breakwater Equity, to Restructure Met Center 1 and 2

Saturday, August 25th, 2012


Austin, Texas (PRWEB) August 24, 2012

Breakwater Equity Partners, a commercial loan workout firm, has been hired by nineteen tenant-in-common (TIC) investors to restructure Met Center 1and 2, located at 7901 E Riverside Drive in Austin, Texas. The investors recently filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to stop the imminent foreclosure of the building.

When the owners purchased the two-story office building in 2007 for $ 12.1 MM it was 100% leased and producing healthy dividend distributions to the owners. By 2011 occupancy dropped and the sponsor stopped paying dividend distributions. Refinancing became impossible after the owners discovered that expansive soils had caused the slab and flatwork to shift, creating millions of dollars in damages. The loan matured in November 2011 and the TIC investors were unable to pay off the $ 8.6MM balloon payment.

Due to the costs of remediating the building, Breakwater believes that the current value of the property is approximately $ 3.5MM, putting the property $ 5MM underwater. We are in the process of completing a debt restructuring and remediation on Met Center 10, which is located just up the street from Met Center 1 & 2, said Armand Nicholi, Chief Financial Officer for Breakwater. As we have demonstrated on Met 10, it is a time consuming and expensive process to pursue wrongdoers, collect judgments, and then permanently fix structural issues.

During the mid-2000s TIC investments were marketed to small investors as a strategy to defer income taxes through IRC 1031. Due to the real estate bubble, these investors had large sums of money to reinvest in real estate. Most of these investors were inexperienced and were looking for safe and steady retirement income. Unfortunately, some of the sponsors did not disclose all of the risks associated with these investments and many mom-and-pop investors should not have been encouraged to plunge their life savings into these speculative ventures, said Phil Jemmett, Breakwater CEO. In addition, some of the properties were grossly mismanaged and most of the properties did not have a viable plan to refinance or restructure the debt when it came due. This is a recipe for disaster. Most of these investors cannot afford to lose their nest egg.

After reviewing their options the owners decided to hire Breakwater to save their investment. When the building went up for sale on auction.com, we knew that it was time for professional help, explained Marilyn Broderson, a member of the Steering Committee. Breakwater is the only company that has successfully restructured TIC-owned properties in bankruptcy. We filed bankruptcy to stop the foreclosure and can now focus our attention on pursuing the companies and individuals who created this nightmare.

We successfully restructured a TIC-owned property in this same business park — Met Center 10. The owners are very happy to recover their entire investment, said Jemmett. Met Center 1 and 2 has many of the same potential defendants and we are confident that the courts will hold the wrongdoers responsible. On behalf of the investors, Breakwater has hired Knisely, Prehoditch & Panzer, P.C., an Austin law firm, to review legal claims and pursue litigation.

About Breakwater Equity Partners

Breakwater Equity Partners is a San Diego-based commercial real estate workout consultancy and investment firm. Through Breakwaters extensive experience on over 200 engagements with loan values in excess of a $ 2.5B, the firm has devised a unique, multidisciplinary approach to uncovering and resolving distressed asset situations. Breakwaters professional team combines legal, financial, economic, banking, and real estate expertise to devise customized strategies for each case regardless of market (gateways to tertiary), asset class (single and multi-family, office, flex, multi-tenant land, time shares, development, power centers) or loan type (portfolio or CMBS). Please visit our website at http://www.breakwaterequity.com to review case studies on representative deals.

Breakwater Equity Partners, please call 858-490-3630 or visit http://www.breakwaterequity.com.

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