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Kudos to this attorney. I like to believe that the exchange is real. > g
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>>
>> Part of rebuilding New Orleans caused residents
>> often to be challenged with the task of tracing home titles back >> potentially
>> hundreds of years.. With a community rich with history stretching
>> back over two centuries, houses have been passed
>> along through generations of family, sometimes making it quite difficult >> to
>> establish ownership. Here's a great letter an attorney
>> wrote to the FHA on behalf of a client:
>>
>> You have to love this lawyer.......
>>
>>
>> A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a
>> client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove >> satisfactory
>> title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to >> the
>> property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track
>> down. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following
>> reply.
>>
>>
>> (Actual reply from FHA):
>>
>>
>> "Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's
>> loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of
>> Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and
>> presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared
>> title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final
>> approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to
>> its origin."
>>
>>
>> Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:
>> (Actual response):
>>
>> "Your letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has
>> been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than >> the
>> 206 years covered by the present application.
>>
>> > I was unaware that any educated person in this
>> country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know
>> that Louisiana was purchased by the United States from France , in 1803 >> the
>> year of origin identified in our application.
>
>>
> For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats,
>> the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France ,
>> which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain . The land came >> into
>> the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a >> sea
>> captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of
>> seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella.
>> The good Queen Isabella, being a pious woman and
>> almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of >> securing
>> the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus's
>> expedition...Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of
>> Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created >> this
>> world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that
>> part of the world called Louisiana . God, therefore, would be the owner >> of
>> origin and His origins date back to before the beginning of time, the >> world
>> as we know it, and the FHA. I hope you find God's original claim to be
>> satisfactory. Now, may we have our loan?"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The loan was immediately approved.
>>
>>
>> Part of rebuilding New Orleans caused residents
>> often to be challenged with the task of tracing home titles back >> potentially
>> hundreds of years.. With a community rich with history stretching
>> back over two centuries, houses have been passed
>> along through generations of family, sometimes making it quite difficult >> to
>> establish ownership. Here's a great letter an attorney
>> wrote to the FHA on behalf of a client:
>>
>> You have to love this lawyer.......
>>
>>
>> A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a
>> client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove >> satisfactory
>> title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to >> the
>> property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track
>> down. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following
>> reply.
>>
>>
>> (Actual reply from FHA):
>>
>>
>> "Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's
>> loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of
>> Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and
>> presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared
>> title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final
>> approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to
>> its origin."
>>
>>
>> Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:
>> (Actual response):
>>
>> "Your letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has
>> been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than >> the
>> 206 years covered by the present application.
>>
>> > I was unaware that any educated person in this
>> country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know
>> that Louisiana was purchased by the United States from France , in 1803 >> the
>> year of origin identified in our application.
>
>>
> For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats,
>> the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France ,
>> which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain . The land came >> into
>> the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a >> sea
>> captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of
>> seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella.
>> The good Queen Isabella, being a pious woman and
>> almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of >> securing
>> the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus's
>> expedition...Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of
>> Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created >> this
>> world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that
>> part of the world called Louisiana . God, therefore, would be the owner >> of
>> origin and His origins date back to before the beginning of time, the >> world
>> as we know it, and the FHA. I hope you find God's original claim to be
>> satisfactory. Now, may we have our loan?"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The loan was immediately approved.
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
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