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Bureaucrats are the same all over the world...in terms of their intellect, wisdom and performance

ONE LAWYER YOU HAVE TO LOVE.............

As most of you receiving this know, 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( Fedaral Housing Administration) on behalf of a

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

gotta love!!...... It's too good.

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

have our damn loan?"

The loan was approved.

 

J.KANNAN, M.Com, FIATA

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