chrisy
Well-known member
Part of rebuilding New Orleans causes residents to often 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.
>
> A New Orleans lawyer seeking Federal Housing Assistance loans for
> clients, are told that loans will be granted if they can prove
> satisfactory title to property being offered as collateral.
>
>
> Here's a great letter an attorney wrote to the FHA on behalf of a client
> that is absolutely priceless! The title to the property dated back
> to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down. Ya' gotta
> love this lawyer.... it's too good not to share!
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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 have our damn loan?"
>
> .............The loan was approved.
>
> 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.
>
> A New Orleans lawyer seeking Federal Housing Assistance loans for
> clients, are told that loans will be granted if they can prove
> satisfactory title to property being offered as collateral.
>
>
> Here's a great letter an attorney wrote to the FHA on behalf of a client
> that is absolutely priceless! The title to the property dated back
> to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down. Ya' gotta
> love this lawyer.... it's too good not to share!
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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 have our damn loan?"
>
> .............The loan was approved.
>
