First American Title Has a Long History

Way back in 1974, I got my start in the real estate industry by typing title policies for First American Title.

I was very young, and still in college. I hadn't quite decided on a career at that point, but I also typed about 120 WPM. The reason I could type so fast was because I was given the opportunity to choose my final class in high school. Because I had moved around so much my senior year, my transcripts were in pieces. Half of them were lost. The school did not know that I had already taken Typing 101 in ninth grade, so I repeated the class in grade 12.

Taking typing over meant I was forced to unlearn all the bad habits I had acquired and to put new habits into place. Plus, it was really hard pretending I did not know how to type in class.

As a result, I replaced my bad habits with my new learning curve. My typing speed jumped from 30 to 120 WPM. Of course, I hated typing, and I hated typing class. It wasn't long, maybe a few months, before I asked to be promoted. I became a title searcher. From there, it was a hop, skip and a jump into escrow and then real estate brokerage.

I will always remember First American Title and how it gave me my jump start into becoming a real estate broker. But there is more to First American; it's been around for more than 100 years . . . read more about First American Title.

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