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How to Handle Residential Real Estate Closings: Clear Transactional Guidance and Trouble-Shooting Tips

  • Training

  • 3 Hours
  • Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE)
  • ID: 5835536
That's the satisfying moment marking months of negotiation and paperwork. But as counsel for seller, buyer, lender, or title insurer, you know the closing almost never goes smoothly without guidance from well-prepared counsel. No matter what side of the closing table you find yourself on, you need clear transactional guidance and trouble-shooting tips to represent your client with confidence. Learn to minimize last-minute surprises, and master pre-closing, closing, and post-closing problems.

The topnotch faculty teach you how to

  • Identify important negotiation issues in the P&S and learn the deal busters
  • Identify and determine the role of the lender and closing attorney in preparing the CFPB Integrated Mortgage Disclosure Statement
  • Prepare and review the CFPB Integrated Mortgage Disclosure Statement
  • Explain to your client important provisions of the mortgage and note
  • Identify the responsibilities of counsel for the lender, buyer, and seller
  • Deal with title insurance, title certification, and clouds on title that can stall the deal
  • Maneuver around title search roadblocks and problems, such as unresolved liens, structure encroachments, zoning violations, and much more!

Course Content

2:00 - 2:05 pm
  • Welcome and Introduction
  • Jonathan M. White, Esq., Jordan & White LLC, Salem
2:05 - 2:10 pm
  • Residential Real Estate Closings: Your Role as Counsel for Buyer, Seller, Lender, or Insurer
  • Jonathan M. White, Esq., Jordan & White LLC, Salem
2:10 - 2:30 pm
  • Residential P&S Nightmares - How to Avoid Them
  • Including Negotiating Escrow Problems
  • Jonathan M. White, Esq., Jordan & White LLC, Salem
2:30 - 2:40 pm
  • Panel Discussion
2:40 - 2:45 pm
  • Break
2:45 - 3:35 pm
  • Residential Real Estate Closing - Who Does What?
  • Seller's counsel; Buyer's counsel; Lender's counsel
  • James A. Juliano, Esq., Scafidi Juliano LLP, Woburn
3:25 - 3:55 pm
  • Residential Closings: Accounting and Disbursements of Funds & Post-Closing Responsibilities
  • Post-Closing Title Documents; Reconciliation of IOLTA Account
  • Christine Bernardini, Esq., Touchstone Closing & Escrow LLC, Andover
4:05 - 4:10 pm
  • Break
4:10 - 4:35 pm
  • Residential Closings: Title Insurance & Title Issues
  • Including a discussion of Wire Fraud
4:35 - 4:55 pm
  • Residential Closing & COVID
  • Panel
  • Please Note
  • MCLE webcasts are delivered completely online, underscoring their convenience and appeal.
  • There are no published print materials. All written materials are available electronically only.

Speakers

Chair
  • Jonathan M. White, Esq., Jordan & White LLC, Salem
Faculty
  • Christine Bernardini, Esq., Touchstone Closing & Escrow LLC, Andover
  • James A. Juliano, Esq., Scafidi Juliano LLP, Woburn
  • Sara Ann K. Supple, Esq., Chicago/Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, Boston