This is one lawyer you gotta love

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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 owner ship.

Here's a great letter an attorney wrote to the

FHA on behalf of a client that I thought was

absolutely priceless! This is one lawyer you gotta

love!...... It's too good not to share!

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 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.

Spiritual freedom is my birthright.

I am a free thinker. I am able to rise above mental

prejudices and stereotypes of others.

I am a free thinker. Nobody and nothing can manipulate

me or deceive me.

I am a free thinker. I freely choose truth and love.

Today, I embrace a greater degree of spiritual

freedom.

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