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Posted by: PappaJohn
In reply to: None
Date:3/29/2007 7:05:30 PM
Post #of 7299
THIS IS A LAWYER TO LOVE!
Only in Louisiana - you have to love this lawyer - It's too good not to share!
Everyone who has ever bought a house will enjoy this.
A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client who lost his house
in Hurricane Katrina and wanted to rebuild.. He was told the loan would
be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to the 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?"
He got the loan.
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