ONE LAWYER U HAVE TO LOVE

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As you know after the Katrina fiasco and restoration...

New Orleans residents are challenged often 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, making it quite difficult to

  establish ownership.

  Here's a great letter an attorney wrote to the FHA on behalf of a

  client that I thought was absolutely priceless!! This is one

  lawyer you gotta love!!...... It's too good not to share!

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 letter):

  '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 letter)

  'Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been

  received. I note that you wish to have title extended further

  than the 194 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 U.S. , 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, 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 ' 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 please have our damn loan?'


The loan was approved.   

[Leo Tanner]

I want ta know that guy.  Sit down and have a beer with him.
     Talk about cutting through the BS.  Glad he got those folks their money.


Leo

[California Lawdawg]

Now, he's the kind of lawyer that I might need someday Too bad there is not many more like him/her.


Lawdawg

[Texas Lawdog]

Lawyers sometimes put a "bad taste" in the mouths of Lawdogs.  This guy is a pleasant change from the rest.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

That guy is good! wonder what percentage of the MANY lawyers in this country are like him?........Buck

[Joe Lafives]

Unfortunately this is a myth.  See Snopes

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Buzz Kill