Goldmine BNI Utah

Justin Peterson of Laub Insurance spoke to us about his category - commercial insurance. Laub is a fourth generation insurance agency. They are Farmers agents, however they are not captive, which we were told means that they have a wide variety of other insurance carriers (80 different carriers)  that they sell for.

Commercial insurance was defined by Justin as general liability, workman's compensation, business auto, crime, surety bonds and more. Justin explained that if member were driving a personal auto, but had that auto wrapped (advertising) with the name of their business, they need business insurance because their personal insurance does not cover business.

Their have been many testimonials of the level of service that the Laub agency provides and the reasonable rates.

Mike Ross of Meridian Title told us about title insurance and the function of an escrow agent. Mike always makes it fun, he read the following correspondence: 

A New Orleans lawyer sought a 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:

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 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:

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 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 then reigning monarch, Isabelle. The good queen, being a pious woman and careful about titles, almost as much as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold
her jewels to fund Columbus' expedition. Now the Pope, as I'm sure you 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 He also made that part of the world called Louisiana. He,
therefore, would be the owner of origin. I hope to hell you find His original claim to be satisfactory.

Now, may we have our damn loan?

They got it.

Source:
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/landgrab.asp