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Elective Directory
Summaries of Elective Courses offered on Doma Academy
National Course Replays
Non-credit recordings of our national & general webinars
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Credit Eligible
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The Rainmaker’s Lab
Our interactive series covering Sales and Marketing Training
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6
Credit Eligible
No
Enrich Your Education
Basic title insurance instruction including Title 101
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National Course Replays
Title Insurance Topics
New Technology in a Century-Old Industry
Blockchain holds the promise of making real estate transactions more secure and less costly. This course explores the basics of this emerging technology and examples of how it is being tested in the title industry.
Cemeteries, Ghosts & Zombies
A Survival Guide for Tricky Title Issues
This 60-minute webinar explores some of the trickier land title issues that title insurance professionals may encounter, including transactions involving cemetery property, death of property owners and “zombie” foreclosures.
Corporations, Trusts and LLCs, Oh My!
Title Agent’s Guide to Entities
Some transactions involve complex players, such as corporations, limited liability companies, trusts, joint ventures and more. This is a basic primer on the various types of entities that title and escrow professionals encounter.
Cybersecurity Must-Haves and Misconceptions
Prevention Tips and Popular Myths Busted
How cyber strong are you and your organization in the face of today’s most prevalent cyber attacks? This course focuses on the most prevalent cyber threats impacting today’s title industry and dispels five cybersecurity myths.
Ethics for the Title Professional
A Blueprint for Success
This course offers information about the title agent’s ethical role in the real estate transaction, necessary items for an ethics program and how to catch unethical behaviors before they negatively impact your business.
RESPA Dos and Don’ts
Compliant Customer Relationships
This course instructs on working and engaging with customers in a RESPA-compliant manner. It covers prohibitions under Section 8 of RESPA, compliant advertising agreements, affiliated business arrangements, promotional events and more.
Solving the E-Closings Puzzle
A 20-Year Journey to Implementation
There are many moving pieces to the e-closing puzzle, but thanks to recent changes to local laws and other industry paradigm shifts, e-closings are finally becoming a reality. This course discusses the journey in detail.
Wire Fraud Response
How to Protect Yourself and Your Clients
This course covers common wire fraud scenarios, reviews preventative measures and discusses what to do in the event of wire fraud. We also discuss title claims from wire fraud and how to select appropriate insurance coverage.
Working with Outside Counsel
A How-To Guide for Title Professionals
Ethical and practical considerations can arise in dealing with underwriting and claims counsel over the life of the transaction. This informative session identifies these ethical issues, and how to address them as they arise.
General Electives
The Agent’s Guide to the New FinCEN GTO
In this course, members of our underwriting counsel team share important updates to FinCEN, including how the most recent changes impact your reporting requirements to both FinCEN and NATIC/Doma, how your closings may be affected and the penalties for failing to comply with the latest GTO.
2021 ALTA Policy Forms #1
Owner’s Policy and Loan Policy
Listen in on the first of three courses Doma is offering on the new 2021 ALTA Forms. A member of Doma’s underwriting counsel team takes you step-by-step through each section in sequential order so you gain a thorough understanding of the most significant changes in the owner’s and loan policies. This course highlights new language, revisions and newly defined terms, and is designed to assist you in answering your customer’s questions about the forms.
2021 ALTA Policy Forms #2
Commitments, Short Form Residential Loan Policies and Endorsements
This is the second in a series of three courses Doma is offering on the new 2021 ALTA Forms. Pointing out the important changes, instruction includes the Conditions and Schedules A and B of the Commitment For Title Insurance; when to use the new commitments; the two versions of the Short Form Residential Loan Policies; and Endorsements.
2021 ALTA Policy Forms #3
Homeowner’s Policy and Expanded Coverage Residential Loan Policy
Listen in on the third and final installment of Doma’s 2021 ALTA Forms presentation. Instruction includes an explanation of the most significant changes to the Homeowner’s Policy; Expanded Coverage Residential Loan Policies; Endorsements; and when to use the new forms. The instructor moves section-by-section through the forms in an easy-to-follow cadence to highlight additional elements and any revisions to existing language.
Judgements and Liens
The Title Agent’s Reference Guide
Some of the most common title issues that come up are unsatisfied judgments. Listen in on this session and learn how to identify judgments in your title search, and how to address them as they arise.
Mandatory Colorado Title Agent Compliance Training
The Colorado Division of Insurance, part of the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), has the authority to hold title insurance underwriters responsible for overseeing the escrow and settlement activities of title agents. In connection with a recent market conduct exam, and to ensure our agents’ full compliance with all applicable regulations, NATIC is hosting this on-demand version of its September 2019 live webinar to address critical statutes and regulations impacting the title professional.
NATIC Becomes Doma –
Your Questions Answered
While NATIC’s new name won’t impact the exceptional service we provide to our agents, it does bring with it some changes that may impact daily exchanges with the company. NATIC hosted this town hall virtual meeting to share information and bring our agents on this exciting journey of rebranding.
NATIC Town Hall 3.26.20
On March 26, 2020, NATIC held a live webinar program for its agents titled, Town Hall: A How-to-Guide in the Current Landscape. If you missed the webinar or would like to review its content, NATIC agents can now access the program on NATIC U. The topics focused on NATIC’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Training to Secure Your Remote Workforce
This 28-minute course takes you through key remote workforce cyber vulnerabilities and instructs on securing your IT infrastructure against data breaches and cyber-attacks.
The Rainmaker's Lab Courses
Sales and Marketing Training Series
What Is Your Why?
What Is a Unique Selling Proposition?
This course helps students create their personal Unique Selling Proposition (USP). There are certain things a USP should include, and equally importantly, what it should not include. Mapping out how your elevator pitch looks and sounds should lead to a natural question from the recipient: “How do you do that?”
Achieving the Milestones
Goal-Setting & Time Management
Behind every achieved milestone is a goal. Somewhere, someplace, someone took the time to map out what the milestone was and the things that needed to occur in order to get there. This course helps you break down your goals into daily tasks and creates time-management hacks to foster success.
The Best-Kept Secret
Customer Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Management is THE best-kept secret behind successful businesses that rely on a process that has more than one step. CRM is more than a stack of business cards or a spreadsheet with phone numbers and addresses. When a properly utilized CRM is placed in your business, you’ll find the work a little easier and conversions a little higher, and you’ll lose fewer customers.
The Competitive Advantage
Copywriting Made Easy
Mark Twain is quoted as saying, “Choosing the right word is the difference between a lightning bug and lightning.” This module has been created to give you an unfair advantage over your competition when writing sales ads. Additionally, you’ll unlock the secret power of subject lines in email and headlines in your copy, how to write long and short form ads, the power of split testing … and lots, lots more.
Using Social Platforms
Social Media Strategy & Cyber Intelligence
This is not a class on how to use Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Most users of social platforms employ a Ready, Fire, Aim mentality in using social networks. Having a dedicated plan of action will lead to a more orchestrated experience for your targeted audience. And when they finally arrive at your intended destination, they’ll know why they’re there, ready to buy.
The Final Lesson
Advanced Sales & Marketing
This module is designed to be the final module in the series. After grasping lessons from each of the other five modules, we tie everything together and show you where to aim your new secret weapon. We will also break down your customer experience into sections to better analyze ways to improve your processes.
Enrich Your Education (EYE) Courses
Basic Title Insurance Instruction
Bankruptcy Basics
This course covers general concepts of bankruptcy, providing a refresher or introduction for title professionals who are confronted with consumer bankruptcy filings or bankruptcy in the chain of title. Specific attention is given to bankruptcy court orders and how to determine if a buyer or seller is in bankruptcy.
Consumer Protection and Elder Abuse
Protecting elder consumers from financial abuse has become a priority for title insurance agents, mortgage lenders, underwriters and government agencies. This 16-minute elective video examines why elder financial abuse is increasing and explores what title agents can do to combat this threat. Real life examples are shared to emphasize the lessons.
Entity Authority Underwriting Requirements
This course offers basic instruction on entity authority in real estate transactions. The presenter covers general standards and requirements to consider for corporations, limited liability companies, professional corporations, partnerships and nonprofit organizations. Red flags in transactions involving entities is also discussed in this 30-minute course.
Ethics for the Title Agent
The facilitation of real estate transactions, which may involve numerous parties, can oftentimes lead to questions, confusion and practices where ethics come into play. This course discusses the title agent’s ethical role in the real estate transaction, necessary items for your company’s ethics program and how to catch unethical behaviors before they wreak havoc on a transaction and your company.
Florida Homestead Law
Referred to as the legal chameleon, the homestead law is one of the most complex areas of Florida real estate law a title agent will encounter. This course discusses the law from a practical standpoint, addressing common title-related questions that arise in residential transactions.
Hard Money Lenders
This course offers basic instruction on hard money loan underwriting changes. The course also delves into claims prevention in hard money loan transactions and fraud concerns on loans encumbering free and clear properties.
How to Read a Title Commitment
Understanding the title commitment is a staple in any title insurance general instruction. This course discusses the various components of the commitment and the importance of the commitment’s obligation, conditions, requirements and exceptions.
In Stark(er) Contrast: An Overview of 1031 Exchanges
This course offers basic instruction on 1031 exchanges, including Section 1031 of the IRS Code, the related Starker court case and key terms outlining various components of a 1031 exchange. The course also delves into eligible parties, purposes, property requirements, timing considerations and fees for 1031 exchanges.
Insuring Reverse Mortgages
Need a primer on reverse mortgages? Then this course is for you. Beginning with a basic explanation, including the pros and cons of home equity conversion mortgages, and concluding with underwriting guidelines, the instructor discusses noteworthy considerations when insuring these types of transactions.
The Money is Gone
What to do After Cyber Fraud Occurs
Cyber fraud is often referred to as the biggest threat to our industry today. Victims at all levels of a real estate transactions have reported fraudulent activities. This course defines common types of cyber fraud impacting title insurance and offers tips on how to combat these destructive schemes. The instructor dives deep into cybersecurity must haves, business email compromise, fraud prevention measures, responding to an attack and popular cybersecurity myths busted.
Newest Cybersecurity Threat – Litigation
For the real estate and title insurance industries and the consumers they serve, interpreting deceitful emails could mean the difference between wiring money to a fraudulent account or catching criminals in their tracks. This course offers bite-sized examples of court cases that were a direct result of a breakdown in cybersecurity measures. Instruction includes how to avoid getting hacked and threats to the closing process posed by hackers.
Title 101
Are you looking for an introduction to title insurance or a review of basic title concepts? If so, this course has you covered. In 20 minutes, you will obtain helpful knowledge on universal concepts of title generally followed in most or all jurisdictions.
Underwriting Liens, Judgments and Mortgages
Need a primer on liens? This course looks at the most common types of liens encountered in the title insurance business, key terms associated with liens, what to do when a lien is identified in the title search and various forms of ownership. Instruction provides the basics on liens, judgments and mortgages and key considerations of these important title insurance topics.
Using Florida’s Mutual Indemnification Agreement
Need a primer on reverse mortgages? Today’s title searches can often reveal complications and a long succession of former owners and lenders who may be difficult to locate and work with to resolve outstanding items. When this occurs, title agents sometimes look to a solution called indemnity. This course addresses specifics on Florida’s Mutual Indemnification Agreement, comprehensive instruction on the various types and important things to note about this unique protection.
